Recipe: The Ultimate Tomato Sauce Substitute (like "Nomato Sauce") (2024)

FAQs

What is nomato sauce made from? ›

Nomato® is made from a medley of root vegetables and seasonings. It contains no soy, dairy, wheat, gluten, nuts, and of course no tomatoes! Nomato® sauces are available through mail order or store purchase.

If you have a can of tomato paste in your pantry, you are in luck—this is the best substitution for tomato sauce. All you need is the tomato paste and water. Mix together 1 part tomato paste and 1 part water until well blended. Then, season your "sauce" to taste.

Canned pumpkin puree, butternut squash puree, or sweet potato puree. Obviously not the kind with spices in it. These thicken a recipe, and with a tiny addition of vinegar (or ume plum paste!) also provide the sweetness and acidity of a tomato.

Beets – If you're looking to add some sweetness to your salads or a substitute base for pasta sauces, beets can be a great substitute packed with Vitamin C that you would get from tomatoes. Carrots – Similar to beets, carrots can be a great substitute base especially in soups and are a great source of beta-carotene .

Tomato-free swap: Butternut squash-based sauce. A sauce with roasted squash provides a tasty, rich (but healthy!) alternative to a classic red sauce.

For this swap, David Joachim, author of The Food Substitutions Bible, recommends you use ½ cup tomato paste and ½ cup water to replace 1 cup of tomato sauce—just keep in mind that you'll need to season your substitute to taste.

Nightshade plants contain different types of alkaloid compounds, food factors that cause physiological changes in the body. The origin of the name “nightshade” is not clear, but some suggest the name describes how these plants prefer to grow and flower in the night and shade.

Is tomato nightshade toxic? ›

The most common ones are tomatoes, white potatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, chile peppers and tomatillos, along with spices derived from nightshades like paprika and cayenne pepper. The nightshade family is unique in that they produce toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids.

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Although it is likely to change the flavor profile more than other substitutes, tomato soup can work as a tomato sauce substitute. A can of tomato soup can replace 1 cup of tomato sauce. However, because the soup has more liquid than tomato sauce, you should reduce another liquid ingredient by 1/4 cup if possible.

In Italian, “Ragù” is the general term for meat sauce made of ground meat, vegetables, wine and some tomatoes.

Ingredients: Crushed Tomatoes, Tomato Juice Or Water, Sugar, Salt,modified Corn Starch, Dried Onions, Olive Oil, Citric Acid, Spices Andherbs, Dried Garlic, Bell Pepper Powder, Dried Parsley.

This pasta sauce without tomatoes is made with puréed beets and carrots. My husband can't eat tomatoes, but with this sauce, we can still have Italian food once in a while. Serve it over cooked pasta or use it instead of canned tomatoes or tomato sauce in any recipe, just switch up the spices.

Espagnole Sauce

Espagnole is a brown sauce thickened with a roux composed of brown stock, mirepoix, and tomatoes. Mirepoix is a French aromatic flavor base of onion, celery, and carrot cooked together in butter or oil over low heat, so they release their flavors without browning.

Hollandaise sauce is unlike the mother sauces we've mentioned so far, due to a liquid and a thickening agent, plus flavorings. Hollandaise is a tangy, buttery sauce made by slowly whisking clarified butter into warm egg yolks. So the liquid here is the clarified butter and the thickening agent is the egg yolks.