As the harvest season dies down an we get ready to head into fall one of the sauces I love to make is Roasted Tomato Sauce. We use it on our pizzas and it is a great way to use up the variety of tomatoes still coming in from the garden.
Roasted Tomato Sauce is a simple recipe. The recipe calls for 4 pounds of tomatoes, and I have to admit I just cut up enough tomatoes to fill my 11×14 pan. Remove the core from the tomato and chop them up. You can use any type from Roma to cherry tomatoes.
To the cut up tomatoes add one coarsely chopped onion, ¼ cup of fresh herbs of choice or a smaller amount of dried herbs. I’ve been adding a mixture of dried Italian herbs to the tomatoes. I also add 3 large garlic cloves, chopped. To the mixture add 1/8 cup of olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Stir the whole mixture and place it in a preheated 450 degree oven. Roast for 70 minutes without opening the oven door.
Remove from the oven, let cool and run through a food mill.
This recipe I do not can, instead I place 2 cups of sauce in freezer containers and it is ready for our homemade pizza! 2 cups is just enough for 2 pizzas.
Nancy on the Home Front 
That pizza looks soooo good! I am going to make us a homemade pizza on Saturday! Yum!
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Melissa,
We love homemade pizza! Have you ever tried cooking it on the grill? Delicious!
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Wow, Nancy, this looks delicious! I can’t wait to try this. I have lots of oregano and basil right now, so I think this will be a great way to use up all those extra tomatoes! Thank you so much for the recipe.
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Vickie,
You will love this recipe, I use it every year, especially nice when you just don’t feel like canning anymore! 🙂
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Hi Nancy,
Yummy tomato sauce that is great for so many dishes including Pizza. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted.
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Maria,
We love the oven roasted tomato sauce on our homemade pizza, just the best!
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WOW…this looks amazing! So yummy and fresh!
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
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Ooh I like this idea for Pizza sauce!! We are so excited that you linked up to Merry Monday this week! Sharing your post today on our MM Pinterest Board~ Come back next Monday for another great party share! party opens Sunday night! Have a great week!
Best,
Kim
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Thanks Kim, I love your party! I’ll be back!
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I don’t have a food mill. could I just put it the vitamix to blend it instead?Sounds great!!!
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Esta,
I’m sure that would work, the food mill just separates the skin from the pulp!
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That sounds wonderful and the pizza looks delicious!!
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Carlee,
We love our homemade pizza! Especially with this roasted tomato sauce!
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This looks great and so easy, I’m going to save this. I’m not much of a caner, freezing works better for me. I think I lack the patience or I just got burned out from childhood, canning started in August and ended oh sometime in October. Until Grandma decided to start canning soup and meat and then it never ended. LOL
Have a Great weekend.
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Carole,
That is along canning season! I enjoy canning but I also like having this wonderful tomato sauce in my freezer! Just have to remember to defrost it! 🙂
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I love homemade tomato sauce! Thanks for sharing on healthy living link party
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Sounds so good! I’ll have to try it one of these days. Unfortunately we didn’t get many tomatoes this year.
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This sounds amazing! We’ve never tried roasting our pizza sauce but I’m thinking we need to. Thanks so much for sharing on the Healthy Living Link Party 🙂
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Roasting your tomatoes with herbs and onions give it a very rich and delicious taste!
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Lovely sauce for pizza thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning and tweeting.
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I love making my own pizza sauce, but yours looks especially tasty! I will try it next time I make pizza. Thanks for linking up to This is How We Roll linky party!
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Oh Yum!! what a great idea!! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! Hope to see you tomorrow!! Pinned!
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Looks delicious! I have never tried roasting the tomatoes first before straining and making sauce. Thanks so much for sharing on Farm Fresh Tuesdays!
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Lisa,
I never tried this until a few years ago and then I was hooked! It gives a wonderful rich taste to the sauce!
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