Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce made with Roma Tomatoes

Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce made with Roma Tomatoes- a simple, no fuss, slow cooker recipe to make a delicious tomato and basil sauce with your crop of home-grown Roma tomatoes.

Jar of tomato sauce on a wooden surface


We had a bit of a family competition this year to grow Roma tomatoes; one plant each, first to get a red one. It went a bit awry thanks to the UK heatwave though... Plenty of tomatoes all stubbornly staying green! They were hibernating, essentially, due to the very high temperatures. Once it cooled off into normal British temps for August, they finally all started to turn red. I didn't win unfortunately but I'm laying the blame for that firmly at the door of my suntrap, back garden!

What to do with a big crop of Roma Tomatoes? Well, Roma are the perfect tomato for making sauces and chutneys because they are 'paste tomatoes' which are quite robust and have fewer seeds than other varieties, helping to make a nice, thick texture.


Roma tomatoes on a chopping board

This slow cooker tomato sauce is incredibly easy to make and is a perfect base for a pasta sauce, soup, spreading on a pizza or as a base for Mexican cooking. It requires remarkably little effort on your part, which is fair enough, as you put all the working into growing them!

The flavour of home-made tomato sauce in the slow cooker is deeper and far richer than shop-bought sauces. It's also a great deal lower in sugar. Did you see that recently, Dolmio admitted that some of their sauces have so much sugar in them that they shouldn't be eaten more than once a week? But they are by no means the worst offenders, many of the other own brand and branded shop-bought sauces contain as much sugar as chocolate bars and ice creams. Pretty shocking, and all the more reason for you to make the most of your Roma tomato crop and get that sauce bubbling in the slow cooker!


Slow Cooked tomatoes in the slow cooker


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