Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
This oven roasted tomato sauce brings out the very best flavor of your summer homegrown tomatoes! Just 5 ingredients and an hour of roasting time!
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 2 pounds tomatoes see notes in post
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 6 cloves garlic, peeled
- large handful of fresh basil (in the sauce, and also as a garnish, optional, see notes)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400º.
- Place all of the ingredients in an oven safe pot (I like to use my enamel coated cast iron pot)
- Roast for 1 hour, stirring occasionally, and scraping down any brown bits on the side.
- Carefully remove from oven.
- Using an immersion blender, blend the sauce completely smooth (optional).
- Serve as desired over pasta, pizza, or on a spoon! Enjoy!
Notes
This sauce easily doubles or triples! Make as big of a batch as you can with the tomatoes you have!
This sauce is really great with just simple dried oregano. But when I do have a bundle of basil, I like to put a little bit in, and then reserve some to garnish at the end. There's nothing like a bite of fresh basil on a spoonful of pasta!