Tomato sauce

Also called pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce and Sunday gravy

Tomato sauce is a condiment made with tomatoes, sometimes with tomato paste. Cooks use it raw or in stews, and pair it with meat or pasta. It is sold in cans or jars.

Category: Condiments & seasonings
Cooked most in: Europe, Africa, The Americas
Top country: Italy
Dishes: 18 in the catalogue

Photo: Dennis Klein klein2 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tomato sauce

Typical ways to cook or use it

Raw
Stew

Made from

tomato
tomato paste (sometimes)

Goes well with

meat
pasta

Shopping

Choosing and storing tomato sauce

Sold as: Canned, Jarred

Around the world

Where tomato sauce is cooked

18 dishes in the catalogue use tomato sauce. 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 sauce among their ingredients.

Origins

1692/1694 · Italy
The first Italian tomato sauce recipe appeared in a cookbook published in two volumes.
1790 · Italy
An Italian cookbook recorded tomato sauce served with pasta.

On the table

Dishes made with tomato sauce

15 of the 18 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Koshari
Egypt
Pizza funghi
Italy
Moules farcies à la sétoise
France
Hawaiian pizza
Canada
Pizza Poro
Finland
Spaghetti with meatballs
United States
Poulet DG
Cameroon
Amatriciana sauce
Italy
Diavola pizza
Italy
Sardenaira
Italy
Gnocchi alla sorrentina
Italy
Pane frattau
Italy
Pasta al pomodoro
Italy
Seafood pizza
Italy
Porcupine meatballs

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

Around the world

What tomato sauce is called

Names in 57 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
salsa de tomate · salsa de tomates · tomate frito
French
sauce tomate · coulis de tomates · coulis de tomate
Italian
salsa di pomodoro · sugo di pomodoro · salsa al pomodoro · sugo al pomodoro
Portuguese
molho de tomate
German
Tomatensauce · Tomatensoße
Dutch
tomatensaus
Greek
σάλτσα τομάτας
Turkish
domates sosu
Russian
томатный соус
Polish
sos pomidorowy
Arabic
صلصة الطماطم · صلصة البندورة
Persian
سس گوجه‌فرنگی · سس گوجهٔ فرنگی

Show all 57 languages

Albanian
salcë domatesh
Armenian
տոմատի սոուս
Azerbaijani
tomat sousu
Bangla
টমেটো সস্
Basque
tomate saltsa
Belarusian
таматны соус · таматная падліва
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
таматная падліва · таматны соўс
Bulgarian
доматен сос
Cantonese
拿坡里汁
Catalan
salsa de tomàquet · salsa de tomaca
Chinese
番茄沙司
Corsican
culatu
Czech
rajská omáčka · rajčatová omáčka
Danish
tomatsauce · tomatsovs
Egyptian Arabic
صلصة طماطم
Esperanto
tomatsaŭco
Estonian
tomatikaste
Finnish
tomaattikastike
Galician
salsa de tomate · mollo de tomate · tomate fritido
Georgian
პომიდვრის სოუსი
Hebrew
רוטב עגבניות
Hindi
टमाटर की चटनी
Hungarian
paradicsomszósz
Icelandic
tómatsósa
Indonesian
saus tomat (klasik)
Interlingua
sauce de tomate
Irish
anlann trátaí
Japanese
トマトソース · サルサ・ポモドーロ · サルサ・ディ・ポモドーロ
Javanese
saus tomat
Korean
토마토 소스 · 토마토소스
Latvian
tomātu mērce
Macedonian
доматен сос · сос од домати
Malayalam
തക്കാളി സോസ്
Manx
soolagh traase
Norwegian Bokmål
tomatsaus
Odia
ଟମାଟ ଚଟଣୀ
Punjabi
ਟਮਾਟਰ ਸੌਸ
Romanian
sos de roșii · sos de tomate
Serbian
Сос од парадајза
Simplified Chinese (China)
番茄酱
Slovak
paradajková omáčka
Slovenian
paradižnikova omaka
Swedish
tomatsås
Ukrainian
томатний соус
Uzbek
pomidor sousi
Vietnamese
sốt cà
Western Panjabi
ٹماٹر سوس

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
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q3596097

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