This homemade tomato sauce gets its creaminess from coconut milk. It is completely dairy free, sugar free, and paleo to boot!
Ingredients:
- 3 medium size tomatoes
- 1/4 cup ghee (where to buy grass fed ghee or make your own)
- 1 white onion
- Cream from 3 cans of coconut milk (where to buy BPA free coconut milk)
- 1.5 tsp. sea salt (where to buy quality sea salt)
- 1/2 tsp pepper (where to buy pepper)
- Leaves from 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
Directions:
- Put ghee in a sauce pan on medium heat.
- Add rosemary and chopped onion.
- Cook until onion is translucent.
- Add chopped tomatoes, coconut milk cream, salt and pepper.
- Stir ingredients until they soften.
- Remove from heat and pour into blender or food processor.
- Process until smooth.
- Pour back into saucepan and reduce until desired thickness.
- Enjoy!
We served over zuchini noodles which we made by simply using this gadget and cooking the zucchini noodles lightly in a saucepan.
How would you use this tomato sauce?
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Ghee is butter that has had the milk solids removed. On your recipe you have make your own and you say ghee is clarified butter that has been cooked down to separate out the milk proteins (casein). So you must know butter is dairy there-fore your recipe is not dairy free as you say. I am allergic to dairy, but I know what ghee is, what if someone is allergic to dairy and makes your recipe thinking it dairy free because they do not what it is?
Can I replace the ghee with coconut oil?
I don’t think that would work very well Lyndsay and it would harden up at room temp as well.
Sylvie, if I use cans of JUST coconut cream (like from Trader Joes) how much would I use?
Hmm Lindsey. I couldn’t say for sure but since it’s a sauce I would just mix some in with some water and keep adding a little at a time till you reach the consistency that you want. Hope that helps. If it was baking or something like that it would be more exact but with a sauce you can wing it a bit 🙂
This is sooo good! I didn’t have 3 cans of coconut milk, only 2. But it was still great!
This is sooo good! I didn’t have 3 cans of coconut milk and it was still great!
What could I use instead of coconut milk? I am allergic to coconut and am very new to paleo so I’m not sure what to sub. Thanks!
Hi cook568 if you’re dairy free, I don’t really know what to suggest unfortunately… If you can do some dairy you could try cream, butter or milk although you’d have to play around with the amounts till you find the right consistency. Hope that helps
Awesome! I am looking forward to trying this. 🙂
Do you think using diced tomatoes instead of whole tomatoes would work okay?
Yes, I’m sure that would be fine! Just make sure the ingredients are as clean as possible and a BPA-free can would be your best bet.