Do you love tomatoes fresh from the garden? This collection of canning tomatoes recipes will get you started preserving tomatoes that you harvest.
I love home canning tomatoes to use in salsa, soups, and spaghetti sauces.
Below is a list of all the pages on this site regarding home canning tomatoes. Everything from processing directions and safety recommendations to my favorite tips.
Learn how to can tomatoes!
Canning Tomatoes Raw Pack
Here's the recipe for canning tomatoes in a raw pack, meaning you don’t cook the tomatoes first. They go in the jars raw.
This meatless version of homemade spaghetti sauce can be canned for later use in many recipes. Leaving out the meat gives many more options for use, simply brown your meat later add to this sauce and you are ready for the dinner table.
Canning stewed tomatoes gives you a versatile ingredient. I use this stewed tomatoes recipe as a base for stews. I use it in my chili. I will pour it over a roast in a Crockpot.
Canning tomato vegetable juice recipe. Say goodbye to store-bought juice and hello to homemade taste all year round. Drink it straight or use it in recipes.
Home Canning Tomatoes – 3 Tips to Make Canning Tomatoes Safe & Easy
It’s tomato season, and you’ve got a counter full of tomatoes beckoning you. Before you start canning, here are 3 things you should know about home canning tomatoes.
How to can tomatoes? Well, there’s a lot of misinformation with regard to safe and best practices out there. Learn how to properly can tomatoes at SimplyCanning.com
I get asked a lot about what kind of tomatoes are good for canning. If you are making tomato sauce, I’d suggest you use Roma tomatoes. Roma tomatoes are meatier than other tomatoes. They work great when preserving tomatoes as sauce, salsa, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, and more. Another variety great for canning is the Marzano Italian Paste tomato.
Every year I plant several varieties in our garden. One year, I planted some yellow just for fun. I had some space left over in my garden and decided to try something new.
I always include one each of the prolific cherry tomato and pear tomato, just for my boys. These are for eating fresh whenever they want. My son eats them straight from the bush. He loves grazing through the tomato bushes as much as the raspberry bushes…well, almost.
