Good ingredients to pair with tinned tomatoes
Pasta is the fastest route, while beans, chickpeas and mince make the sauce into a more substantial meal. Eggs can simmer directly in it, and rice can absorb the tomato flavour in a one-pan dinner.
Easy tinned tomatoes meal ideas
- quick tomato pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- bean tomato chilli — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- tomato rice — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- shakshuka-style eggs — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from tinned tomatoes
Let the tomatoes simmer until the sauce reaches the thickness you need before adding ingredients that cook quickly. If the flavour tastes flat, balance it with salt, a little acidity or a finishing herb rather than simply adding more tomatoes.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.