ROASTED Cherry Tomato Sauce is sweet, creamy and SO EASY to make! This is the best recipe for growing garden tomatoes! You can serve immediately on pasta, can it or freeze it! Find out why thousands of people love this sauce!
My life has officially been taken over by tomatoes. Is there anything else to talk about except tomatoes right now? Tomato this, tomato that, do the tomato dance.
The Best Cherry Tomato Sauce
This is my absolute favorite cherry tomato sauce. I’m a bit biased, but it’s been made by thousands of people, so trust those people and make it too! Pretty much once you make it, you’ll come back to it time and time again!
This homemade sauce doesn’t require you to simmer over the stove for 2 hours. I really love this creamy sauce over pasta, with lasagna and stuffed shells. It’s also pretty fantastic to add to pizza as a creamy sauce.
The key to this recipe is first we oven roast the tomatoes – oh yeah, baby. Then after that we throw them in a food processor with some fresh basil and season them. Then it’s made! It’s that easy.
Update: This recipe is now available as a slow cooker tomato sauce recipe too!
Recipe Video
I made this video to show you how to make this recipe. 🙂
Tomato Sauce Ingredients
- cherry tomatoes
- onion powder
- basil
- garlic powder
- salt and pepper
How to Make Cherry Tomato Sauce
Gather your tomatoes, make sure to take the stems off.
Put them in a pan, single layer. I was making a few batches so I had multiple pans.
Drizzle your olive oil over the tomatoes. Take a picture and completely miss the olive oil coming out of the bottle. Oops.
Sprinkle your onion powder over the tomatoes. Take a picture and completely miss the onion powder being sprinkled. Oops.
Bake for 35 minutes until your tomatoes are all wrinkly and bursting.
Let them cool for a few minutes, then put them in the food processor with your other ingredients. Give it a few pulses until creamy, it doesn’t take more than that!
And you are left with some creamy, amazing smelling cherry tomato sauce!
This makes 3 cups of sauce. Feel free to use immediately after, put in the fridge for tomorrow, or freeze (in a freezer bag) for a few months later.
How to Freeze Tomato Sauce
Once the sauce cools down, add the sauce into freezer bags. I like to separate each bag into 2-3 cups of sauce, knowing that’s how much I’ll need fora recipe.
Whenever I freeze sauce, puree, diced/stewed tomatoes, I always put in a freezer bag and lay flat while pressing it out, so it’s as thin as possible. Then once it’s frozen, I stand it up. This saves space and lets you have a better organized freezer.
To deforst, place in the refrigator the night before. Alternatively you could defrost it in the microwave in a few minutes.
I hope you enjoy this Roasted Creamy Cherry Tomato Sauce – it’s one of my favorite Summer recipes! If you’re looking to add a kick, check out my Spicy Tomato Sauce with added in jalapeño peppers.
Need more Tomato Recipes?
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Diced Tomatoes
Whole Peeled Tomatoes
Tomato Pie
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Slow Cooker Cherry Tomatoes
Sun-dried Tomatoes
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Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
PrintIngredients
- 4 cups cherry tomatoes stems removed
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/3 cup fresh basil
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt + pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Spread tomatoes single layer in a pan. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with your onion powder.
- Bake for 35 minutes, your tomatoes should be wrinkly.
- Let cool for a few minutes, then put tomatoes in food processor. Add fresh basil, garlic powder and salt + pepper to taste in food processor.
- Blend to smooth and creamy. Enjoy!
Gregory Prevenslik says
Oh my gosh! This was so good. I added sauteed garlic cloves and a cup of Romano cheese also. Oh, and some peppers and onion from the garden. I’m making lasagna with the sauce tomorrow but I just couldn’t wait and had to boil spaghetti noodles for tonight. I’m a meat lover and didn’t even bother frying up hamburger to put in it. By far the best sauce I’ve ever had. I also tried adding a little sugar separately. Delicious like that also ( tames the sauce a bit), but ultimately decided to leave the sugar out this time. Yummy, yummy yummy!!!! Thank you for the recipe.
Pamela says
Hey Gregory – I’m so happy you enjoyed this sauce so much! I love the addition of Romano cheese – I bet it really takes it to that next level of yum (I’m going to try this!). Thanks for commenting and letting me know you made it! Keep enjoying and happy tomato growing!
Gregory Prevenslik says
Well here goes! I’ve been wanting to make lasagna lately and I just picked 647 cherry tomatoes. Let everyone kno how it goes soon. Thanks!
Pamela says
You crack me up that you counted your cherry tomatoes!
Leslie says
Hey, do you have canning instructions for this recipe? I’ve got cherry tomatoes coming out of my ears and can’t wait to try this 🙂
Evelyn says
Just made it and it smells so good and it was so simple!! My go to spaghetti sauce from now on 👍🏻
Pamela says
hey Evenlyn, I’m so happy you liked this recipe! Thanks for commenting and letting me know!
Marie says
This is a fantastic sauce. Great for lighter pasta meals or baked with veggies.
Thank you!
Pamela says
I’m so happy you liked it Marie!
Anna Chowaniec says
Do you have a recipe for cherry tomato soup, that doesn’t use coconut milk or any other ingredient a home cook would have on hand? Thank you in advance.
Pamela says
Hey Anna, sign up for my newsletter, I will be sharing a tomato soup recipe like this very soon!
Trish Schweitzer says
Oh my gosh – how easy is this. I’m doing this right now. Thank you for the tip. I subscribed to your blog a while ago and I just found it in my spam folder.
Pamela says
Hey Trish, glad to see you back here! Thanks for commenting, hope you like the sauce!
Dena M8lner says
Great tasting and sooo easy to make! Thank you!
Pamela says
Hey Dena, thanks for commenting, I’m so happy you liked this recipe!
ANTHONY L RIGGLEMAN says
Can you put parm cheese in your sauce. Do you need to put back on stove if to liquidity.
Pamela says
Hey Anthony, you can definitely add Parmesan cheese to the sauce if you’d like. This sauce doesn’t require any stove usage, it’s made in the oven and then throw in the food processor. Enjoy!
ANTHONY L RIGGLEMAN says
Can you put parm cheese in your sauce
Jamie says
I love cherry tomatoes too!! We planted 6 cherry tomato plants this year and although they produced all spring and summer and are still producing, we only get about one or two tomatoes per plant per week. So disappointing! I will definitely be saving this recipe! I’m bringing back my Monday link party @ DIY Home Sweet Home (first one will be Oct. 16th) and I would love for you to stop by and link up your tomato sauce! http://diyhshp.blogspot.com
Shari says
oh and…..I used fresh garlic and fresh onion from the garden instead of the powder.
Shari says
I have been making this sauce for awhile now. The other night we added cut up mild/spicy sausage. Delicious!! Makes a really nice flavor combination.
Pamela says
Hey Shari, the addition of fresh garlic and sausage sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing! Glad you like the sauce!
April J Harris says
My mouth was watering when I read this post! What a wonderful, fresh and flavourful tomato sauce. Love the idea of roasting the tomatoes – what a great way to bring out all the flavours. Sharing on the Hearth and Soul Facebook page and on Pinterest later today. Thank you so much for sharing, and for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Link party. Hope to ‘see’ you again this week!
Erin says
This is awesome, and so easy. I’ve been looking for the perfect way to get the most out of my small breed tomatoes and this is it! Thank you for sharing!
Pamela says
Hey Erin, happy you enjoyed this tomato sauce! Thanks for commenting!
Jelica says
Oh wow! This looks so delicious! I love cherry tomatoes and this recipe looks incredible. Roasting really brings out the flavour. And it’s perfect for us gluten-free folks. Pinning!