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!

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Cooks Country/America’s Test Kitchen almost always has a recipe, especially for foundational stuff. I wouldn’t use them for Asian or Cajun (though they do provide insight with those recipes).

    Fresh Tomato Sauce

    Buy their cookbook, it’s about $20 new, you should be able to find one in a used book store/online, for $5. Many great recipes, and a LOT of insight into why each recipe works (insight you can use for other recipes).

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I give it as a gift to young adults who are moving out on their own.

        I feel like pretty much everyone should have one as a start. Things like Joy of Cooking are more advanced (though still foundational, curiously). ATK takes a training-wheels approach.

        The ATK/Cooks Country show has been on since the mid-90’s (and feels like it, truly a PBS show from the 90’s, haha) and does a great job explaining stuff.

        Also Alton Brown’s Good Eats is great for showing how and why things work the way they do in the kitchen. Not sure how much of wither is on YouTube, there’s some.

        • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          I also recommend J Kenji Lopez-Alt’s “The Food Lab”. It’s less of a recipe book and more of a how and why you cook book that happens to contain recipes. It’s sort of a mix of ATK and Good Eats.