Simple Homemade Tomato Sauce

April 15, 2014

By making your own tomato sauce you can easily control the ingredients that go into it. No sugar or strange ingredients go into homemade tomato sauce and that alone makes it so much healthier for you and your family to enjoy. I also like using tomatoes that are grown locally and organically to remove any chemicals or pesticides from the equation.

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 shallot, minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
3-4 fresh plum tomatoes, chopped
1 (28 oz) can whole tomatoes
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 tablespoon dried Italian herbs
2 bay leaves
salt and pepper, to taste

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Add in the shallot and garlic and cook for about 3 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste, dried herbs, plum tomatoes and can of tomatoes (liquid and...
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Nutritions

Calories
58

Sodium
18mg
0% DV

Fat
2g
3% DV

Protein
1g
3% DV

Carbs
8g
2% DV

Fiber
2g
8% DV