Your Tips on How to Use Tomato Powder

Dried Tomato Powder is one of the most versatile, useful dehydrated food products on the planet. Our customers have told us again and again that Tomato Powder is the secret ingredient in many of their favorite recipes. In fact, we’ve found that almost any recipe that calls for fresh or canned tomatoes can be enriched by adding our powdered dehydrated tomatoes. 

In a previous Harmony House blog, How to Get Vine-Fresh Tomato Flavor Even in the Dead of Winter, we shared some of our favorite uses for Tomato Powder. Since then we’ve been collecting tips from our loyal Tomato Powder fans and we’ll share them with you here! 

Replace a 6 ounce can of tomato paste by mixing: 1/4 cup Tomato Powder, 1/4 cup hot water, and salt to taste (1/4 tsp at least). Here are quick and easy recipes for substituting Tomato Powder for other common canned tomato products: 

Replace an 8 ounce can of tomato sauce by mixing: 1/4 cup Tomato Powder, 1/2 cup hot water, and salt to taste (1/4 tsp at least).

Replace a 16 ounce can of crushed tomatoes by mixing: 1/4 cup Tomato Powder, 3/4 cup hot water, and salt to taste (1/4 tsp at least).

Tomato Powder can replace fresh tomatoes in a recipe, but many of our customers like to add this ingredient to dishes made with fresh tomatoes to enhance the flavor. Tomato powder adds zip to your summertime garden-fresh salsa! 

Tomato Powder adds flavor to tasteless grocery store tomatoes. Sprinkle Tomato Powder on fresh cut tomato slices and allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.  

Make your own tomato juice! Just mix 2 to 4 tablespoons of Tomato Powder with 1 cup hot water, and salt to taste to make 8 ounces of juice. 

Tomato Powder adds depth to tomato based barbecue sauces. 

Tomato Powder is also a killer secret ingredient in dry rubs. Mix Tomato Powder and your other favorite dry rub ingredients, apply to chicken or beef and grill. Yum!

Tomato Powder enriches and thickens homemade stews and soups. Add a little powder, taste, then add a little more until you reach your desired level of tomato flavor!

Add Tomato Powder to your meatloaf recipe and you’ll never go back. 

With a container of Tomato Powder in your pantry, it is easy to make your own homemade pizza any night of the week. Reconstitute Tomato Powder with hot water and then add oregano, basil, garlic, any of your other favorite herbs and spices. Sauce your dough, add your favorite cheese and toppings and bake. 

Tomato Powder makes a quick and easy instant tomato soup.

Add Tomato Powder to our Dried Vegetable Soup Blend for a quick and hearty family meal. 

Add apple cider vinegar, sugar, and spices (including ground mustard, ginger, cayenne pepper, allspice, cloves, and cinnamon) to Tomato Powder to make your own ketchup. Make it with your favorite sweetener substitute to make sugar free ketchup!

Tomato Powder thickens and adds flavor to pasta sauces. 

Use Tomato Powder as a rub for roasted vegetables. Shake on, toss with oil and roast in a 350 degree oven. Low-fat, all natural, and 100% delicious. 

Tomato Powder will make a homemade spanish rice that will taste like it came from your favorite restaurant. 

Tomato Powder makes any beef stew recipe mouthwateringly delicious.

Mix Tomato Powder with parmesan or powdered cheese for a delicious popcorn sprinkle. 

Mix Tomato Powder with brewers yeast for a vegan popcorn topper.  

Tomato Powder makes a delicious seasoning blend for pasta dishes when you add it to garlic flakes and parmesan cheese. 

Add Tomato Powder to homemade vegan “cheese” for extra flavor and natural color.

Add Tomato Powder to Bloody Mary mix to intensify the tomato flavor. 

Add Tomato Powder to mayonnaise for a zesty, creamy sandwich spread. 

Add Tomato Powder with herbs to cream cheese to make a spread for bread, crackers, or fresh veggies. 

For decadent scrambled eggs, rehydrate Tomato Powder with cream (instead of water) and add to eggs just before they are finished cooking. 

Sprinkle Tomato Powder on split English muffins and top with grated mozzarella cheese to make quick and easy mini pizzas. 

People love Harmony House Tomato Powder not only because it is tasty, but also because it is so pure. We don’t add any sodium, preservatives, or artificial colors. That red you see in the clear Harmony House Tomato powder container is 100% dehydrated tomato!