Having the right cooking tools will save you time and make cooking easier, and a potato masher is a handy one to have in your kitchen. You can use this for vegetable purées, mashed potatoes, guacamole, and tomato sauce — it smooths out the sauce in minutes. This might be a helpful tip if you have picky eaters who don't care for chunks of tomato in their sauce — it's my solution for my own picky eater.
Any style of potato masher will do. If you don't have one, you might like this one with a curved edge. I find that it makes smoother purées and sauce than spiral-style mashers with larger openings.
I put this idea in a recipe format so you can save the idea in your recipe app. You can create a category for things you want to add to your kitchen, along with notes on how to use them for recipes you like.
Parsnip purée, carrot purée, cherry tomato sauce, tomato sauce, using canned San Marzano tomatoes — and a potato masher!
It even works for large batches.
Tomato sauce made with canned San Marzano tomatoes
Making tomato sauce with cherry and grape tomatoes
