Making this delicious Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce is a smart and healthy idea, especially when fresh tomatoes are in season and you have some room in your freezer to freeze whatever you can’t use right away — for up to 4 months! Go ahead and cook up a big batch since tomato sauce can be the foundation for dozens of yummy recipes, such as a topping for pasta and much more.
This recipe adds fresh garlic, lemon juice, salt, sugar to tomatoes to make a delicious sauce.
Before making this Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce, here a just a few ideas for incorporating tomato sauce in your meals:
- I add a cup or so of milk or half and half and warm it up for a flavorful tomato soup.
- Use it to bathe frozen meatballs on a solid sourdough bun to make a divine meatball sandwich.
- Of course it’s the base for a zesty lasagna. Or even for a short cut lasagna soup.
- A cup of the sauce is perfect as dipping sauce for fritti misto or fried calamari.
- Spread it on french bread halves, top with mozzarella and any other toppings for a French Bread pizza.
- Nestle a few chunks of chicken breast in warmed sauce and cook over medium for 25-30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
- The kids go wild for stuffed pizza rolls.
- Polenta, gnocchi and ravioli. Need I say more?
The secret to this sweet and fresh-tasting sauce is roasting the tomatoes in olive oil with all of the ingredients in the recipe. Roast slowly at a low temperature and let them sizzle for awhile.
I like to keep my sauce in the fridge until ready to use or I freeze them flat in freezer bags and then stack in the freezer for later use. Pour the sauce in muffin tins or ice cube trays to use in smaller portions.
To make this as a shelf-stable, jarred sauce, add two tablespoons of bottled lemon juice and one teaspoon of salt to each jar. Add a teaspoon of sugar to offset the added acidity if desired.
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