Five Minute Tomato Sauce

Keep this recipe in your back pocket because it’s easy and you never know when you might need a batch of tomato sauce in a matter of minutes.

The key ingredient is a jar or can of crushed tomatoes, a dash of olive oil, and a few herbs.

For folks who follow SCD, there is some confusion around whether canned tomato sauce and other canned fruits and vegetables are allowed. While many will have strong feelings one way or the other, the bottom line is that cans with no additives or processing aids are allowed on SCD. That said, I prefer crushed tomato sauce sold in glass jars because I don’t like the idea of the acidic tomato sauce sitting in metal or plastic. If you prefer to follow SCD in the very strict sense, make tomato sauce using tomato juice.

For a product to be considered approved for SCD many feel you need a physical letter from the company verifying the ingredients. For example, for tomato sauce there are approved canned tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes, however the list changes depending on the latest info from the manufacturer. When I last checked about a year ago, approved tomato sauce brands included Cento, Utopia, Pomi, Pasatta imported from Italy, sauce from https://www.wellbees.com, Bionatura, and Trader Joe’s sauce and paste.