22 Best Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipes for Winter

This delicious, aromatic, and thick sauce made from ripe tomatoes makes a wonderful addition to many meat, potato, and pasta dishes, and preserving it for the winter using proven recipes will allow you to enjoy it all year round. Best of all, it's easy to prepare at home, making it a breeze even for novice, inexperienced cooks.

Flavoring characteristics of the sauce

The sauces, thanks to the use of a variety of spices, aromatic herbs, and ripe vegetables, have a rich palette of flavors – from mild and delicate to spicy and hot.

Selecting and preparing vegetables

Only ripe, attractive, and undamaged vegetables are selected. Before cooking at home, they are thoroughly washed, peeled, cut into pieces, and the seeds are scraped out of the peppers.

The best tomato sauce recipes for the winter

From tomatoes, with the addition of other vegetables, herbs and spices, you can prepare a variety of delicious sauces that perfectly complement many dishes.

Classic Satsebeli

This delicious, aromatic, and versatile sauce is the crown jewel of Georgian cuisine. To prepare, you'll need:

• sweet pepper – 2 pieces;
• tomatoes – 800 grams;
• ground coriander – 1/2 teaspoon;
• hot pepper – 1 piece;
• garlic cloves – 5 pieces;
• greens (dill, parsley, cilantro) - 1 generous bunch;
• salt, sugar – according to taste preferences.

Winter Ketchup

A quick, easy, and delicious recipe using tomato paste. Blend it in a blender with the following ingredients:

• tomato paste – 350 grams;
• mustard – 1 tablespoon;
• salt, sugar – to taste;
• cinnamon – 1/4 teaspoon;
• carnations – 4 buds;
• garlic – 3 cloves.

Sugo

To prepare this delicious, mild sauce, take tomatoes, white onions, a few cloves of garlic, salt, pepper and wine vinegar.

French-style tomato sauce without sterilization

It's made with tomato paste (preferably homemade). Tarragon, onion, and garlic are added, the mixture is boiled, and then poured into jars while still hot and sealed.

Krasnodar tomato sauce

One of the most popular, delicious, and beloved sauces. Its original ingredients, in addition to tomatoes, include nutmeg, garlic, cloves, and allspice.

"Caucasian"

It's perfect with grilled meats, shashlik, and lula kebab. One of the secrets of making it is to leave the tomatoes, cut into wedges, to release their juices for 24 hours.

Kubansky

This dish seems to have absorbed all the vibrant colors of a Kuban summer. It's prepared using tomatoes, cinnamon, mustard, and other spices.

Spicy Georgian style

In Georgia, it's loved on par with adjika and tkemali. To prepare it, vegetables (sweet and hot peppers, tomatoes, and garlic) are minced and then boiled for an hour.

Spicy tomato sauce made from tomatoes and chili

This dish is for those who love spicy, fiery dishes. It's made with tomato puree and hot peppers, blended thoroughly.

Celery appetizer

To prepare this vitamin-rich and healthy snack, use sweet tomatoes and peppers, vinegar, and celery leaves.

Green adjika

This version of adjika is prepared from green cherry plums, with the addition of herbs, spices, and also bell and hot peppers.

Adjika with plums

Delicious, aromatic adjika with garlic can also be made from ordinary blue plums, which grow in almost every garden.

Aivar

This thick, hearty, and original tomato ketchup is made with eggplant, roasted peppers, and vegetable oil.

"Macedonian" with tomatoes and cucumbers

This aromatic, filling preparation with an interesting flavor can be enjoyed as a standalone dish. Fresh or pickled cucumbers add a piquant touch.

Sweet tomato sauce for the winter

This option will be very popular with children, and it can also be consumed by people with gastrointestinal diseases.

No-Cook Tomato Appetizer

To prepare this fresh, filling snack that preserves all the vitamins, tomatoes are ground in a meat grinder or used in a blender.

Recipe with cilantro

Adding cilantro enhances the flavor of the dish, adding traditional Caucasian notes. To make the sauce, add a large bunch of cilantro to a kilogram of tomatoes.

Cooking in a multicooker

This is a simple, yet quick and delicious way to prepare the preserve. Use the "Stewing" setting. Although the consistency is slightly runny, all the beneficial nutrients and vitamins are preserved.

Tomato-cranberry

This sour, piquant ketchup is perfect not only for meat and fish dishes, but also for pancakes with various fillings.

Tomato-horseradish sauce

For those who prefer spicy cuisine, this spicy, yet delicious and aromatic sauce is perfect. It's easy to make by adding grated horseradish root.

Finger-licking good recipe without vinegar

This ketchup goes well with a wide variety of dishes and is even used as a dressing for borscht. At the beginning of preparation, the tomatoes are pressed through a sieve or juiced.

Appetizing Sauce

This delicious sauce, made from plump, sweet, yellow tomatoes with added sugar, can be eaten with just a spoon – it’s that delicious.

Duration and storage conditions

Heat-treated and sterilized jars can be stored without loss of quality for one to two years. Cool basements, cellars, and pantries are suitable. Sauces that haven't been heat-treated are stored only in the refrigerator.