36 Ways To Use Canned Tomatoes Tonight

Use canned tomatoes to lend ripe tomato flavor to dishes until the real ones are in season.

recipes with canned tomatoes

Food Republic•Updated: June 8, 2015 3:45 pm EST

Until summer's tomato bounty is upon us, we'll have to make do with canned. Thankfully, there are many brands of canned tomatoes that — while not a substitute for the real thing — are packed with flavor and can do exactly what you need them to do.

Check out 36 recipes with canned tomatoes and enjoy pasta, chili, curry, gumbo and more from the ripest tomatoes we have access to. And don't worry, we're counting down the days til the first heirlooms show up at the market. But that's a whole other recipe roundup.