How Do You Substitute Tomato Ingredients In Recipes?
If you are cooking a recipe that calls for tomato juice, tomato sauce, tomato paste, or canned tomatoes and you don’t quite have the right kind of tomato ingredient in your food pantry, you may be able to use whatever tomato product you do have and change it up a bit to fit your recipe! And often times, you can save money by making cooking substitutions. Read on for easy tomato substitutions you can use while cooking. Substitute Tomato Juice – If you have a recipe that calls for tomato juice and all you have in your food pantry is tomato sauce or tomato paste, you can turn that into tomato juice! Use 1/2 cup of tomato sauce and 1/2 cup of water to equal 1 cup of tomato juice. Or use 3 tablespoons of tomato paste and 1 cup of water to equal 1 cup of tomato juice. Substitute Tomato Paste – If you have a recipe that calls for tomato paste you can make tomato paste by taking 1 cup of tomato sauce and simmering it until it is reduced by half to equal 1/2 cup of tomato paste. Substitute Toma
