If you're looking for tomato recipes, we have you covered! Next to chiles, tomatoes are our favorite vegetable garden pick! Like peppers, tomatoes come in a huge variety of different flavors, sizes and colors. And heirloom tomatoes offer some of the most exceptional flavor on the planet!
Here are some of our favorite recipes that will use your delicious tomato harvest:
Tomato Sauces
Make these two sauces below to use for making dishes like lasagna, pasta, and pizza. Homemade sauce has exceptional flavor compared to store-bought. And you know what's in it!
No-Peel Tomato Sauce
Quick Marinara Sauce
Do you have to peel your tomatoes for sauce? Nope.
We make a lot of tomato sauces and salsas without peeling the tomatoes, which takes a lot of extra time, and, removes some of the vitamins and nutrients that the tomato skin has to offer. There's just a few tricks to make it work. Read our related post: Can you leave skins on when making tomato sauce?
Tomato Salsas
Nothing beats homegrown, homemade salsa. Tomatoes picked ripe from the garden offer so much more flavor to salsas than store-bought tomatoes. You can also can tomatoes for use in making salsas over the winter months, adding fresh onion, garlic, cilantro or lime to bring fresh flavors to your meals.
All our Salsa Recipes
Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe »
Trinidad Scorpion Salsa Recipe »
Vinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe »
Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe »
Orange Salsa Recipe »
Pico de Gallo Recipe »
Tomatillo Salsa Recipe »
Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe »
Quick Salsa »
Fresh Tomato Salsa »
No-Peel Salsa Recipe »
Green Tomato Salsa Recipe »
Salsa Macha Recipe »
Cabbage Salsa / Mexican Coleslaw Recipe »
Other Tomato Recipes
Caprese Salad
Green Tomato Recipes
You can also just eat tomatoes fresh from the garden. Cherry tomatoes in particular are great garden snacks to munch on as you do your watering, planting, composting weeding and other garden tasks!
