This quick and easy roasted cherry tomato sauce recipe has only five ingredients and is ready in under 30 minutes!
I’m always looking for speedy supper ideas. As much as I love spending time over the cooker, some nights I really can not be bothered. Those nights tend to be the three nights in the week I’m working in our village co-operative – my ‘getting out of the house’ job where I work a few hours in the afternoon and close up the shop in the evening.
The UK laws on selling foodstuffs are a bit funny. It’s illegal (as far as I am aware) to sell anything past its ‘use by’ date, so I tend to reduce things right down in the hopes someone will buy them before I have to throw them in the bin. Then there’s the ‘best before’ date, when food is still okay, for a while yet at least, but it’s not at its best. It’s still edible.
Like these piccolo cherry tomatoes, which I roasted into a delicious, versatile pasta sauce.
Ingredients
- 900 grams cherry tomatoes halved
- 4 tsp smoked sea salt
- 1/2 tsp caster sugar
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 4 tbsp garlic-infused olive oil
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 220 C.
- Halve your cherry tomatoes and arrange them, cut side up, on a baking tray.
- Sprinkle with the remaining ingredients and roast for 15-20 minutes.
- Leave to cool slightly, and then puree in a high-speed blender.
- Serve over pasta.
Recipe Difficulty Levels
Easy
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Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 900 grams cherry tomatoes halved
- 4 tsp smoked sea salt
- 1/2 tsp caster sugar (or more, to taste)
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 4 tbsp garlic-infused olive oil
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Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 220 C.
- Halve 900 grams cherry tomatoes and arrange them, cut side up, on a baking tray.
- Sprinkle with 4 tbsp garlic-infused olive oil, 4 tsp smoked sea salt, 1/2 tsp caster sugar and 2 tsp dried thyme and roast for 15-20 minutes.
- Leave to cool slightly and then puree in a high speed blender.
- Serve over pasta.
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what a brilliant idea this is, love it. I’m all about simply recipes ☺
Wow this just looks amazing mmm could just eat this right now lol
Great recipe. Never tried to make tomato sauce with caster sugar. Interesting flavours.
I’m always looking for dishes like this to help with my ‘squash playing’ diet – and the smoked sea salt is an intriguing idea.
A great recipe for when tomatoes or cheap or I’ve grown a glut.
This looks like a top tomato pasta sauce.
This looks so good! I’ve shared it to my twitter x
simple and tasty. goes particularly well with meatballs which are a fave at the moment
This fresh tomato sauce looks just incredible Elizabeth. Thanks for linking to my pasta and for entering #CreditCrunchMunch:-)
Looks tasty, im always on the hunt for a new sauce as i get fed up easily
Oh this looks so tasty, something I think I will definitely need to try
This sounds delicious! I love simple, tasty sauces! x
Your recipes are incredible; I am DEFINITELY coming round for tea. Lol
Oh wow, I definitely want to try this. It sounds so easy and looks SO gooood. Yum!
I always end up with tomatoes needing to be eaten and wanting to do something different with them. This sounds perfect and I think even my fussy daughter would love it too.
I always end up with tomatoes needing to be eaten and wanting to do something different with them. This sounds perfect and I think even my fussy daughter would love it too.
This looks like a delicious home-made sauce. I’m having a gastric bypass this week and Will be making on my food from scratch from now on. Thanks for a great recipe. Angela at Daysinbed
Oh yum this sounds absolutely delicious – I have to admit I do love a good pasta sauce. x
This sounds SO incredibly delicious!! I will definitely be trying this out 🙂
Anything which is deemed as a quick and easy recipe like this is my kinda recipe too. Tomato based pasta sauces are definitely my favourites as well x
I am definitely going to make this for myself. Looks absolutely delicious and so easy to make! xxx
That looks like a great weekday meal and we love tomatoes so I am sure it would be a hit.
Mmmm, this looks so yummy. I really want to start making my own sauces, I just buy them from the store but this looks great.
I don’t care how old those tomatoes are, I’d still demolish them! Pinned for later.
This sauce looks so flavorful and is easy to make. I have some cherry tomatoes in the refrigerator and I was looking for some recipes to try with it. I am going to try this soon. Thanks for the recipe.
Looks super yummy I will have to try 🙂
Wow, those little tomatoes sure look scrumptious and your sauce is amazing!!
This sauce sounds amazing and definitely healthier than pre-made sauces from the shop.
Well doesn’t this just sound gorgeous?! And seems super easy to make too. As ever, I’m loving your photography and am actually feeling a bit hungry now…. 🙂 x
Oh wow!! This looks amazing – and those tomatoes! Perfect food for this time of year. Yum!
Wow this is really straightforward. We always buy marked down fruit and veg for the freezer so next time I’ll definitely whip a batch of this up.
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Such a good idea. I never would have thought to do this with cherry tomatoes, but how simple and genius! x
This looks so good – I am no good at cooking, but love pasta so even I would happily have a go at this! Thank you! Kaz x
Sounds delish! I will deffo be trying to make this at some point
I do this for the kids, although with less herbs. Looks lush and tastes amazing.
I love roasted tomato sauce but have never used cherry tomatoes; I can’t wait to try this one! Thanks so much for sharing.
This sounds lovely, I do love pasta could eat it daily, but my husband isn’t a huge fan so we don’t have it often but he would eat this x
Fantastic looking recipe! I love cherry tomatoes – I find that they have way more flavour than any of the plum, salad or beef tomatoes we get near us. This is a fantastic way of harnessing all of that flavour! Thanks
I love simple sauces like this – especially when they use up things that would otherwise go to waste. I’ve been making a lot of pesto to use up greens, lately – feels good to put everything to good use!
My mouth is actually watering just reading this! This is right up my street
Sometimes the simplist recipes are the best and this proves that. Such a simple pasta sauce, but I bet it is full of flavour!
I love how how roasting tomatoes concentrates the flavors. The sauce and your pictures are really good.
Oh my gosh… I am sitting here… hungry, can’t be bothered moving… and now… my tummy is growling! This looks so yum!
I love roasting tomatoes – it really brings out the flavour. That spaghetti looks delicious!
A beautifully simple sauce that just lets those cherry tomatoes sing out… I love recipes like this and i’ll be whizzing up a batch of something similar for my boys this week.
Oh my goodness!
I’m so glad I found your site <3 This recipe looks absolutely amazing!!
I can't wait to try this for my boys!
Off to browse more of your site… I think I might be here for a while 🙂
Charlotte x
what a beautiful recipe – so simple and easy but very delicious!
Oh wow! This is my kind of meal! Looks delicious x
oh my looks amazing and so much more tastier than the shop bought jars I buy
Thanks for sharing this recipe, I can see me making this quite a lot!
This will taste so well with some rice or pasta. Nice.
This looks so delicious, bet it tastes so much better than anything you could buy in a jar!
I’ve never made my own sauce before but you make it look so easy I think I’m going to have to give it a try!
This sauce is amazing, there is so many things you could do with it!
The ideas are already flowing, using in soups, pasta, as a dip…
I am making myself some this weekend, wish me luck
Your photographs are just absolutely amazing, stunning in fact and I have never thought to make my own tomato sauce, but now, I just might x
This looks so good! I love easy recipes that I can make ahead and use to prepare fresh dinner when I come back from work. Well done on saving the tomatoes too – hate wastage. I get all my veg for nearly nothing at the end of our local market. Everything gets binned so the prices are really low!
Now we are speaking the same language. This would be a delicious sauce with spag bol.
The tomatoes look soooo good roasted – almost too good to not gobble up before you make them into a sauce! Thanks for sharing – great recipe
haha, that bit about leaving them in the oven and nothing happening made me giggle. It turned out okay in the end though. looks very tasty.