Cream: Add some heavy cream to make your low carb tomato sauce creamy. Texture: Make it chunky or smooth by the texture of your tomatoes. Butter Sauce: Add 1 or 2 Tbsp butter to the keto pasta sauce. If you don’t want a tomato-based sauce, here are some other low carb options to put on pasta:
Normal durum wheat-based pasta is out of the question, but there are a lot of low carb options out there. Heat olive oil in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and saute for 2 minutes until softened. Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds more. Add all the remaining ingredients to the pan and stir it up. Bring to a boil.
This recipe is based on canned tomatoes with no added sugars. If you want your sauce sweeter, you can use 1 teaspoon of carb free sweetener like monk fruit, stevia, etc. Makes 4 cups. Add all ingredients to blender (canned tomatoes, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, herbs, and optional red pepper flakes).
If you use fresh tomatoes to make low carb pasta sauce, they will have to be blanched first to get the skins off, then chopped up, and cook them down until they reach the desired texture. Plum tomatoes are too dry and will not give you the consistency that you need.