Then, fill the jars with your hot crushed tomatoes, leaving one-half inch of headspace at the top of each jar. Screw on the lids and bands. Then, process pint jars in a boiling water canner for 35 minutes; process quarts for 45 minutes. To pressure can your crushed tomatoes, process pint or quart jars for 20 minutes. Whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar. Toss in the sliced cherry tomatoes to thoroughly coat. A food processor is a great tool for creating a homemade crushed tomato substitute. Start by washing and roughly chopping fresh tomatoes, discarding the cores. Place the chopped tomatoes in your food processor, and pulse until you reach the desired consistency. Be careful not to over-process, as you want to retain some texture, similar to crushed tomatoes. Blending Option

Grape tomatoes are more oblong and slightly tapered, and the bottoms of tomatoes can char much more rapidly that the tops. They're also smaller, and there ends up being more skin than I like in the final dish.Don't turn the tomatoes over half way through the roasting as you'll lose the beautiful juices and any pooling balsamic vinegar. You can fire roast grape tomatoes, as seen here, but I prefer using cherry tomatoes. 👩‍🍳 What are the best tomatoes to use for making fire roasted tomatoes

By paying attention to flavor, texture, and water content, you can successfully replace crushed tomatoes in your recipes and still create delicious, well-balanced dishes. Guide to Purchasing and Storing Tomato Substitutes Choosing the Right Substitute at the Store Fattoush (Levantine bread salad) with lemon, cucumber, lettuce and radishes. Photograph: Rachel Kelly Photograph: Rachel Kelly Once the tomatoes start to boil, add another pile of tomatoes. These don’t need to be crushed; they’ll cook down on their own. Continue stirring and adding tomatoes, until all the tomatoes have been added. Then, boil gently for five minutes, stirring constantly. Interested in finding out more about how you can live better? Take a look at this month's Live Better challenge here.

It was the Cirio Peeled Plum Tomatoes! Those Italians know exactly what they are doing when it comes to tomatoes, don’t they?! We don't throw away as many tomatoes in the UK as we once did – it is down from 2m tomatoes thrown away every day in 2007, to a mere 1.5m in 2012. But that is 45,000 tonnes of tomatoes wasted at home every year. Apparently we throw them away because we think they have gone off; we just don't use them up in time. 32,000 tonnes of tomatoes are thrown away every year because they are considered too ripe. If you’re in American or Canada, the best substitute for tomato passata is tomato puree. Tomato puree is very similar or identical in the way it’s made, and recipes I’ve made using tomato puree came out the same as when made using tomato passata. Do you need to cook Passata?

Veggie blogger, Jacqueline Meldrum makes these fabulous party bites of balsamic cherry tomatoes with pesto. Simply done, but very impressive. If you’d like to add salt to your crushed tomatoes (I leave it out), add half a teaspoon to each pint jar and one teaspoon to each quart jar.Preheat the air fryer to 400˚F. If your air fryer tray is like a wire mesh, line the it with parchment paper. This tomato dipping sauce is my favourite new thing this summer, from party or picnic food to stirring through hot pasta. Just fresh tomatoes and sundried ones in a vinaigrette dressing with parmesan cheese. It is completely moreish!