Okay, maybe a silly question, but I am looking for recipes for tomato sauce. Not pasta sauce, not spaghetti sauce, but the stuff that comes in the little 8oz cans that’s basically just tomatoes and salt! We use a ton of it in different recipes and I’d love to be able to make my own, but when I try to look it up I only get recipes for pasta sauce!!
I’m sure it’s not that hard, but I know the texture has to be just right (to a certain extent) for it to work in other recipes. Has anyone made their own tomato sauce/have any tried and true recipes? Please share your wisdom 🙏
Edit: This stuff below, different from tomato paste, but very similar!
Well tomato sauce is both pasta sauce or pizza sauce. They are just used differently. Some variations come from personal preference and what not but ultimately they are about the same.
Best I can recommend would be look up multiple recipes, find the common ingredients/preparation methods used in every tomato sauce and pick the ones that apply to how you want it to taste.
Don’t want to use herbs or sugar? That’s totally fine. That’s you cooking.
Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear on my question. It is confusing, which is why it’s so hard to find a good recipe! But I’m looking for this stuff, which isn’t pasta sauce, it’s just an ingredient in a sauce or recipe. You use it for a lot of different recipes that aren’t pasta/pizza related, which is why it’s much more simple, basically just tomatoes and salt. I’m sure this is at least a little wrong, but I think of tomato paste, tomato sauce, and tomato puree as sort of the same thing on different spots on the continuum of texture with tomato paste being the driest, tomato sauce in the middle, and tomato puree being the wateriest. Hope that clears it up!
It sounds like what you want is tomato paste that has not been reduced as long. Follow the same recipe but stop at the texture you desire