The BEST Stewed Tomatoes Ever recipe! This easy to make recipe simmers tomatoes for 30 minutes to make homemade stewed tomatoes that can be served as a dinner side dish or can be canned. This how to make recipe shows you how easy they are to make! Find out why everyone considers them THE BEST! We always use this as a canning recipe for our Summer garden tomatoes!
Homemade Stewed Tomatoes Recipe
Stewed tomatoes, sigh.
Our tomatoes are turning red quicker than I’m able to pick. So between oven roasted cherry tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, tomato pesto, slow cooker tomatoes, tomato soup… there’s lots of tomato dishes going on in our kitchen! Oh and I did mention Fresh Tomato Salsa too – because you know August always means fresh salsa!
I will have many more upcoming tomato recipes…get ready tomato lovers! But for now… stewed tomatoes!
These stewed tomatoes are the best, I’m not fibbing either. If you are having a tomato harvest soon or would like to make your own instead of the canned version, please please please please please make these!
How to Make Stewed Tomatoes Video
These are really the best stewed tomatoes ever!
This is a recipe that might cause you to faint, I’m warning you now. I was expecting average stewed tomatoes, but I ended up sitting at the counter with a spoon eating them out of the pot when they were done. Matthew was in another room, so I knocked on the door.
”Matthew? Are you there?”
”What? What’s wrong”
”Can you come here?”
”Why are you crying?”
”I just made the best stewed tomatoes.”
”Are you crying?”
”Yes”
”Why?”
”Because they are so good.”
This was a actual conversation over stewed tomatoes. Seriously, they are that good!
How to Make Stewed Tomatoes From Scratch
So what kind of tomatoes work best for stewed tomatoes? I find that beef and roma/plum both work well. Don’t worry about mixing them if you have to either. I do it all the time.
Beautiful beef and roma tomatoes, I love you. I was making a few batches of stewed tomatoes today.
Don’t be scared of this quick boil tomatoes, it will be over quickly!
And look at that.. now you’re in a ice bath! Think of it as a pool and relax.
Because of the quick boil, the skins will peel right off.
Disregard the skins (compost!), or come up with something to do with them. I like to use the skins to make tomato powder which can be sprinkled in soups, casseroles, sandwiches, etc.
So now we have all our tomatoes, naked and bashful! Throw them in a large pot.
Add all our ingredients, stir and put on the stove. Simmer for about 30 minutes, until the consistency is how you prefer your stewed tomatoes. Be sure not to boil off all the juices, that’s one of the joys of stewed tomatoes.
When the stewed tomatoes are done, serve them up right away if you’d like…
They are quite pretty and delicious so they compliment so many dishes nicely!
Or throw them in a mason jar in the refrigerator for tomorrow…
Or throw them in a freezer bag and freeze them for dinner in December. How fun is it to grab homemade garden stewed tomatoes to add to a meal while it’s snowing out?
ENJOY!
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The Best Stewed Tomatoes Ever
PrintIngredients
- 10 tomatoes beef or roma variety
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to boil, plunge tomatoes in for 30 seconds. Remove, put immediately in a ice bath.
- Peel the tomatoes. Discard the skins.
- Dice the tomatoes up to desired size.
- In a large pot on medium heat, combine all ingredients.
- Simmer for 30 minutes.
- Then serve fresh or you can freeze them.
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Susan Pascik says
I can’t wait to start canning my tomatoes. Right now It’s blueberry and tart cherry jam, dilly beans and peas. I’ll be making stewed tomatoes for sure this year. Thank you, I love your great recipes and your website.
Suzanne says
How long to they last in the mason jars?
Connie Thomas says
Did not find ingred for these. Please send!!
Pamela says
Hey Connie, please check out the recipe card in the post that has the full printable card with ingredients and directions. Enjoy the recipe!
rebecca shorter says
delish!!!
Anne says
I have never made stewed tomatoes before. I added this to a flank steak in the crockpot and then served it over potatoes. Easy and Excellent!!!
Tami says
Oh my goodness these are amazing. My poor tomato plant keeps getting robbed by birds. But the neighbor gave me some tomatoes so I tried this. I used it as a gravy for stuffed manicotti. Canned tomatoes may be inexpensive but you can’t beat the taste of these
Anne says
This was delicious. I have never made stewed tomatoes before. It was really easy. I always just opened a can.I added it to an arrachera (marinated skirt steak) in the crockpot.. It makes a nice “gravy” when served with potatoes. My ultra picky husband said it was excellent and ate way more than usual.
Andrea says
I would like to can instead of freezing. Any suggestions
Beverly says
Loved this recipe!! Thank u.
Naliana says
This recipe was so simple and perfect! I saw the video and followed that because my cell phone wouldnt pull up the ingredients. I also used brown sugar instead just because I like the taste a bit better however I’m sure white would’ve been just as awesome.
Perfection. I literally did a little shimmy when I tasted it!
Pamela says
Hey Naliana, I’m so happy you liked these stewed tomatoes! You cracked me up with with your shimmy comment! Shimmy Shimmy! Thanks for commenting! 🙂
Melissa says
It looks very nice and delicious. I have never eaten this dish. I will try it this weekend. Thank you for sharing!
Lisa says
My first time making them!!! I’m so excited! Thank you.
Pamela says
Hey Lisa, happy to hear you’re so excited! Enjoy the tomatoes! 🙂
Susan Romatz says
awe I was disappointed to not see Onions in the ingredients list.. I will be adding them to this recipe… TY.
Naliana says
they really didnt need onions. i thought the same initially but it was sooo good.
Crystal says
So the step after peeling, is to put them in the pot and simmer without the juice from the bath?
Pamela says
Hey Crystal, after peeling the tomatoes, put them in a large pot along with the salt, sugar, parsley and green pepper. That’s all.
amanda harding says
can you but them in mason jars
Pamela says
Yes you can.
Bruce says
This recipe has a million options. We used jalapeños instead of bell peppers, threw in onions, garlic and basil and topped it with a little Punjabi Garam masala. Really, after the base the sky’s the limit….and we got rid of 2+ lbs of tomatoes that were taking up valuable freezer space. Thanks!
karen says
instead of bell peppers….. can you use banana peppers ??How will it affect the taste ???