1/4 cup olive oil. I did leave the skins on for a chunkier (easier!) button button The Spruce Eats. Vegan and GF adaptable! Oregano (1/2 tsp per quart). Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce - a simple, quick and healthy dinner recipe featuring fresh summer tomatoes that can be made in 20 mins flat! Search Clear Recipe Page Search Pin Share Minced garlic (one to one-and-a-half cloves per quart). Like every single night this past week! Salt. 8 cloves fresh garlic, minced. It's fun to go pick your own and you can obviously get better quality tomatoes! SHARE PIN EMAIL. If we don't have this, we might as well throw in the towel and stick with canned tomatoes 365 days of the year. While pasta is cooking, make the sauce. sauce. 1 (6-ounce) can or jar of tomato paste. We'd invited fifteen hungry friends to our home for dinner and we wanted to welcome them with a feast: a bubbling pot of garden-fresh tomato sauce, courtesy of an old family recipe. Your freezer bags say, “Garden Tomato Sauce 8/27/15” and ironically I am using your recipe to make this sauce with tomatoes from my garden on 8/27/16!!! You can use our recipe to make any size batch. You can use our recipe to make any size batch. Turn fresh tomatoes into homemade tomato sauce. Aside from the tomatoes and a sprig of fresh basil, you need just a handful of pantry ingredients and 15 minutes of active time to make this healthy pasta sauce. This easy homemade spaghetti sauce recipe calls for fresh tomatoes, so it's perfect for summertime when you have a bumper crop of homegrown beauties or you went overboard at the farmers' market. Homemade Spaghetti Sauce from fresh tomatoes is one of my favorite things to make when I got lots of ripe tomatoes on hand. 2 (28-ounce) cans or jars of whole, crushed or stewed tomatoes (or 4 15-ounce cans). First, the sauce should taste like it was made from fresh tomatoes, which means it should have the bright, fruity aroma and flavor of uncooked (or barely cooked) fruit. How to Make Spaghetti Sauce From Fresh or Canned Tomatoes It was high noon when we stepped into Santa Rosa , the local market, in search of fresh ingredients. Pepper. Olive oil. Process - How to Make Spaghetti Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes Step 1 - Selecting the tomatoes. Add rough chopped garlic. 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano. In a large skillet heat olive oil over medium high heat. Instructions Set a big pot of salted water to boil on high to cook pasta. How to Make Tomato Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes. I'm a little embarrassed to tell you how much I've been making this Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce lately. Chopped onions (one medium onion per quart of sauce). Add chopped onions, saute 2-3 minutes, until tender. Skip the jar and make a basic tomato sauce with ease with this foolproof how-to from Food Network. Tomatoes (about 5-6 lbs for every quart of sauce that you want to make). It'll upgrade your pasta to a new level. Turn fresh tomatoes into homemade tomato sauce. At right is a picture of tomatoes from my garden - they are so much better than anything from the grocery store.