Canning Tomatoes Recipes

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!

How to Can Homemade Salsa Safely: A Beginner’s Guide

Find out how to can homemade salsa using your own recipe. Learn the details that will determine if it is safe as written.

Adapting your homemade salsa recipe for canning.

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.

How to can raw pack tomatoes.

How to Can Spaghetti Sauce without Meat

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 Spaghetti Sauce – Meatless

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Canning spaghetti sauce: Beat the price and nutrition of store-bought canned spaghetti sauce, and keep the convenience.

Canning Spaghetti Sauce – with meat

Canning Stewed Tomatoes

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.

How to Can Stewed Tomatoes – tomatoes with onion and pepper.

Homemade Ketchup

Learn how to make homemade ketchup from fresh or canned tomatoes. Making it from scratch allows you to know just what is in the jar!

Learn more here…

Making & Canning Tomato Sauce

Step-by-step instructions for making and canning tomato sauce. Don't let those good homegrown tomatoes go to waste!

How to Can Plain Tomato Sauce

Canning Homemade Tomato Vegetable Juice Recipe

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.

How to can your own tomato vegetable Juice… a V-4 Juice

Canning Zucchini in Tomato Sauce (Okra Too!)

Canning zucchini in tomato sauce is a great way to preserve the summer harvest. Learn how to can zucchini (or okra) to a tomato-based sauce. 

How to Can Tomatoes with Zucchini or Okra

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.

Tips for acidification, and adapting tomato canning recipes.

How to Can Tomatoes Safely

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

All About Acidifying Tomatoes. Is lemon juice really needed?

How to Can Tomatoes Safely: A Bit of Acidification Helps. But WHY?

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

Learn more here…

What type of tomatoes are good for canning?

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. 

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