Homemade Plum Tomato Sauce

There is nothing like homemade plum tomato sauce made from scratch! The perfect recipe for Alkaline Vegans!

Course Condiments

Cuisine Alkaline Vegan, Vegan

Keyword plum tomato sauce

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 40

Total Time 1

Servings servings

Calories 53kcal

Rinse your tomatoes thoroughly in a colander. Take each rinsed tomato, cut an "X" across the top, and place them in your large mixing bowl. (See photo above or view video for demonstration). This will allow you to easily peel the skin off your tomatoes.
In a large pot, fill it up with water and bring to a boil. Once water is boiling, turn off off heat. Place all your tomatoes in the pot with the boiling water and let it sit for 5 minutes until the skin on the tomatoes start to peel.
Carefully remove the skin from each tomato and place peeled tomatoes bake in your large mixing bowls. The skin should come off easily. Discard water from the pot and place back on the burner.

Chop your peeled tomatoes on a cutting board and set aside. To a large pot, add oil and chopped onions. Sauté on medium high heat until onions softened. Then add your tomatoes. Turn down heat to low and allow it to simmer for about 20 minutes uncovered, until tomatoes start to break down and releases it's liquid.
Next, add sea salt, agave nectar, and homemade tomato paste. Mix well and taste to adjust seasonings to your liking. Simmer for an additional 20 minutes uncovered. Once done, turn off heat. Take a handheld blender and blend your sauce until it is smooth.
Rinse, pat dry, and chop fresh basil. Add that to your pot and mix in well. Serve over some spelt pasta or store in mason jars.

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ROMA TOMATOES: You can use any tomatoes you have available to you. If you follow a strict Dr. Sebi diet, roma tomatoes are the ones that are recommended to use.
AGAVE NECTAR: This is used to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes. However, you can omit it you don't like any type of sugar in your spaghetti sauce. I tried this with date sugar and found it is not sweet enough to cut through the acidity of the tomato sauce.
TOMATO PASTE: If you want, you can use store bought tomato paste. If you are on a strict Dr. Sebi diet, I have not found a store bought plum tomato paste which is why I recommended making your own homemade plum tomato paste.