Low Sodium spaghetti sauce?

veijes

I've never watched my sodium intake but I'm going to start trying to cut way back. I went to the grocery store today to get ingredients to make spaghetti and I realized how much salt was it the pasta sauce. I use Ragu Traditional and it has 25% for 1/2 cup!! And diced tomatoes have like 30% in 1/2 cup. I'll probably just buy fresh tomatoes now but what about pasta sauce?

Thanks in advance!

Nebb

Its not really a sauce per se, but if you halve cherry tomatoes and saute them with garlic and a bit of olive oil, they break down and become saucy. It just wont be thick like a traditional "spagetti sauce". pasta tossed in it tastes delicious with a bit of parm ontop.

cac847

I wouldn't call Ragu sauce, but...

If there's Stop and Shop where you live, their Nature's Promise organic sauce that has 350mg/serving or 15% DV. You can also make your own... there are tons of recipes on allrecipes.com.

texgal79

I usually do the fresh tomatoes, cooked down, but have a very hard time finding decent ones in winter. Instead I will cheat with a can of diced tomatoes cooked with a little sauteed garlic. But here's the Mayo Clinic's LONG list of low sodium tomato sauce options!

Tomato Puree & Tomato Sauce: (1/4 cup unless noted)
  Very Low Sodium – 35mg or less:
    Contadina Tomato Puree (15mg)
    Great Value Puree, NSA (15mg)
    Hunt’s Tomato Sauce, NSA (15mg)
    Muir Glen
      Tomato Puree (20mg)
      Tomato Sauce, NSA (30mg)
    Progresso Puree (15mg)
    Rokeach Sauce w/Mushrooms, NSA (25mg)
    Safeway Sauce, NSA (25mg)
    S&W Puree (15mg)
    Woodstock Farms Organic Tomato Sauce (30mg)

Tomatoes – Crushed/Strained: (1/4 cup unless noted)
  Very Low Sodium – 35mg or less:
    Bionaturae Crushed or Strained (10mg)
    Cento (20mg)
    Eden
      Crushed Tomatoes (0mg)
      Crushed Tomatoes w/Basil (0mg)
      Crushed Tomatoes w/Onion & Garlic (0mg)
    Full Circle Crushed, NSA (20mg)
    Pomi Strained (20mg)
    Sclafani (20mg)
  Low Sodium – 140mg or less:
    LaSquisita Crushed (68mg)
    Pomi Strained (85mg)
    Progresso Crushed Fire Roasted (95mg)
    Red Pack Crushed in Thick Puree (120mg)
    S&W Crushed, Italian Style (95mg)
      Crushed in Rich Puree (125mg)
    Tuttorossa Crushed w/Basil (120mg)
    Woodstock Farms Organic Crushed w/Basil (85mg)
 
Tomatoes – Diced & Chopped: (1/2 cup unless noted)
  Very Low Sodium – 35mg or less:
    Bionaturae Diced (20mg)
    Carmelina San Marzano Italian Chopped (5mg)
    Eden
      Diced (5mg)
      Diced w/Green Chilies (35mg)
      Diced w/Basil (35mg)
      Diced w/Roasted Onion (35mg)
    Muir Glen Diced, NSA (15mg)
    Pomi Chopped (10mg)
    Safeway Diced, NSA (20mg)
  Low Sodium – 140mg or less:
    S&W Ready-Cut Diced, NSA (50mg)

DirtyWater

I go on Michael Thurmond (6 week body makeover) for recipes and they have the best sauce and bbq sauce recipes.  Everything on that site is normally under 35gms of sodium per serving

soontobeklg

Can you find canned tomatoes with no salt added?  I make sauce with 2 cans tomatoes, fresh onion and garlic, rosemary, thyme, and 1/2 cup red wine.  Just simmer it for like 20 minutes.  This would probably work just the same with fresh tomatoes, but you might have to add a little water or something.

heizer10910

i believe paul newman has a good one too

Albireo

Making sauce from tomatoes is really easy. Get plum or Roma tomatoes, because they have more flesh and less seeds/juice/goo inside.

First you have to blanch them. Boil some water, use a slotted spoon to put the tomatoes in, and lift them back out when their skins start to split. It'll be under a minute, so keep an eye on them. Throw them into a colander and run cold water over them, or just plunge them into a pot of cold water nearby.

Cut each tomato in half lengthwise. You'll find that the skins fall right off them. Discard the skins and the seedy goo from inside.

Chop up the fleshy peeled de-gooed tomato chunks, and use them like you'd use a can of diced tomatoes! You can even freeze these to use later, so you can spend an afternoon blanching/peeling/dicing tomatoes and then have your own diced tomatoes in the freezer whenever you need them fast.