Roasted cherry tomato sauce is easy to make, tastes wonderful, and looks amazing. Did you get a bumper crop of tomatoes and are wondering what to do? This is an excellent way to preserve those lovely garden tomatoes. Use it in soups, and sauces, or any dish that calls for tomato sauce. Delicious!
Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce Recipe
Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
Equipment
- glass casserole dish
- potato ricer
- glass bowl
- slotted spoon
- ladle
- 16-ounce plastic cup
- 4 quart-sized freezer bags
Ingredients
- 8 cups cherry tomatoes – garden fresh is best!
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp salt
Instructions
- Gather your ripe cherry tomatoes. I'm using Sunrise Bumblebee and Black Strawberry tomatoes for this sauce. These heirloom cherry tomatoes are beautiful, and they taste wonderful!
- Sort the tomatoes into separate casserole dishes. Sorting them keeps their colors and flavors separate, which adds variety to the dishes you make with them. Toss the tomatoes in olive oil, then sprinkle with salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Toss them again to evenly coat the tomatoes.
- Preheat the oven to 425℉. Roast the tomatoes for 35 minutes.
- Carefully remove the roasted tomatoes, and cool for at least 5 minutes until they are safe to handle.
- Using a slotted spoon, add the tomatoes a little at a time into a potato ricer with a medium grate.
- Press the tomatoes to extract the sauce and pulp. Do this slowly, or you are likely to get sauce splashed in your face!
- Scrape the pulp from the bottom of the potato ricer. Discard the tomato skins that get left behind.
- Make sure you get all of that yummy tomato pulp! Pour any remaining liquid from the casserole dish into the bowl of tomato sauce. You will need to clean out the potato ricer between loads. It may seem like a lot of work, but it is much easier than peeling cherry tomatoes by hand!
- You should be left with a delicious, chunky tomato sauce. You can puree if you want a smooth sauce, or just leave them chunky!
- Label some quart-sized freezer bags. It's much easier to label them before filling them with sauce! Place a freezer bag into a pint-sized plastic cup, and turning the bag opening over the cup. Ladle the tomato sauce into the bag until the cup is full.
- While the sauce is still in the cup, close the freezer bag, pressing out as much air as possible before sealing it.
- Lay the bags flat in the freezer until frozen. Once frozen, you can stack them vertically in the freezer for later use.
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Garden Tomatoes
Use garden tomatoes if you can. They taste so much better than store-bought tomatoes! I grow several varieties of heirloom tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes are my favorite! They are beautiful, bright bursts of color and flavor that you can just pop in your mouth for a snack. Or use them in your favorite dishes, like Huevos Rancheros, or Tomato Bisque.
Sort Your Tomatoes
While not truly necessary, I like to sort my tomatoes by variety and color. My sauces will have different colors and flavors. This adds visual interest and variety to the dishes I prepare with them.
Further Refinements
Once you sauce the tomatoes, you can reduce them further if you like. Use an immersion blender to puree the sauce and pulp together until the sauce is smooth. Simmer in a saucepan until the sauce reduced and the flavors are concentrated. This makes for a powerfully flavorful tomato sauce that you can cook with. Toss the concentrated tomato sauce with shredded chicken to make the most amazing filling for Enchiladas Verdes.
Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes
I’m using these heirloom tomatoes in my sauces today. Use whichever tomato variety you desire! I guarantee anything you grow will have flavor and color that grocery store tomatoes can’t even come close to.
Sunrise Bumblebee Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes
Gorgeously yellow and red inside and out, with a tangy and sweet flavor.
Black Strawberry Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes
Gorgeous multi colored cherry tomatoes, excellent for snacking and sauces.
Super Versatile Ingredient
There are so many uses for tomato sauce, they are almost too numerous to list. I have included a small sample of my recipes below that benefit from using garden-fresh roasted cherry tomato sauce.
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