Tomato powder is easy to use when not just making sauce for pasta but also an excellent addition to dry soup mixes. You can readily use your dried tomato sauce in just about any type of dish where tomato sauce would be used. For long term storage this product will last for a minimum of five years and likely much longer.

 

The key to dehydrated tomato sauce lies in first creating what one would refer to as tomato sauce leathers. These are essentially the same thing as fruit leathers but made from a vegetable such as in this case tomatoes.

 

To make your tomato sauce leathers you will start with your favorite tomato sauce whether it is handmade or out of a jar which you purchased from the local grocery store. For this experiment I choose an inexpensive generic Wal-Mart brand without any sort of meat or additives in it. Perhaps at another time I will experiment with meat sauces, etc but for now I planned to use plain sauce. After selecting your sauce place it in your food blender and run it until you have a product with a thick consistency. The intent of this is to completely emulsify any of the larger tomato chunks which may be present in your commercial sauce. Take my word for it even the inexpensive versions are loaded with tomato chunks. I at first was going to skip this step until I started to pour my sauce onto the trays. That is when I noticed the large pieces of tomato. Blending the sauce will not only thicken it but also provide a better basis for forming the desired leathers. If additions such as mushrooms, meat chunks, etc are desired in the final product you should consider adding them during the re-hydration stage.