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Tomato paste

Also called tomato purée

Tomato paste is a condiment made from concentrated tomatoes. Cooks sauté it and use it to season dishes.

Made from
Tomato
Cooked most in
Africa, Asia, Europe
Top country
Benin
Tomato paste, prepared

Photo: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tomato paste

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Saute
  • Season

Cooking with it

Add the paste early and sauté it to caramelize it.

Around the world

Where tomato paste is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use tomato paste. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list tomato paste among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with tomato paste

3 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Goulash

  • Amiwô

    Benin

  • Port sausage

    Iran

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tomato paste.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: tomato paste in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
tomato (concentrated)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What tomato paste is called

Names in 41 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pasta de tomate

  • French

    double concentré de tomates · pâte de tomates · concentré de tomates

  • Italian

    concentrato di pomodoro

  • German

    Tomatenmark · Tomatenpulpe · Paradeismark · Tomatenpüree

  • Dutch

    tomatenpuree

  • Greek

    πελτές

  • Turkish

    domates salçası

  • Russian

    томатная паста · томат-паста

  • Polish

    koncentrat pomidorowy · pasta pomidorowy

  • Arabic

    معجون الطماطم

  • Persian

    رب گوجه‌فرنگی · رب گوجه فرنگی · رب گوجهٔ فرنگی · رب بادمجان رومی

  • Hebrew

    רסק עגבניות · רכז עגבניות · תרכיז עגבניות

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  • acm

    معجون طماطة

  • Armenian

    տոմատի մածուկ

  • Azerbaijani

    tomat pastası

  • Basque

    tomate-pasta

  • Belarusian

    таматная паста · тамат-паста · таматавая паста

  • Cantonese

    番茄膏

  • Catalan

    pasta de tomàquet

  • Central Kurdish

    ئاوەتەماتە · دۆشاوی تەماتە · مەعجوونی تەماتە · ئاوتەماتە

  • Chinese

    番茄糊

  • Czech

    rajčatový protlak

  • Danish

    tomatpasta

  • Esperanto

    pasto de tomato

  • Estonian

    tomatipasta · tomatikontsentraat

  • Indonesian

    pasta tomat

  • Japanese

    トマトペースト

  • Javanese

    pasta tomat

  • Kazakh

    томат пастасы

  • Kazakh (Arabic)

    تومات پاستاسى

  • Kazakh (Cyrillic)

    томат пастасы

  • Kazakh (Latin)

    tomat pastası

  • Korean

    토마토 페이스트

  • Kurdish

    merge

  • Kurdish (Arabic)

    مەرگە

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    merge

  • Macedonian

    паста од домати

  • Malay

    pasta tomato

  • Mazanderani

    تماته

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    tomatpuré

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    tomatpuré

  • Serbian

    парадајз паста

  • Slovak

    pretlak paradajkový

  • Slovenian

    paradižnikova krema

  • Swedish

    tomatpuré

  • Ukrainian

    томатна паста

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1499073

Photos

Photo: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons