you pop the tomatoes in a pan medium heat and let them simmer for 5 to 7 minutes or when they are nice and soft.
Crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, or fresh tomatoes can be used as substitutes for diced tomatoes in a recipe.
Chopped Tomatoes
A suitable substitute for diced tomatoes in a recipe could be canned tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes.
On average, four diced Roma tomatoes will equal one cup. One cup of diced Roma tomatoes contains 40 calories and 0 grams of fat.
A 14.5-ounce can of diced tomatoes typically yields about 1.75 to 2 cups when drained. This is because a standard cup of diced tomatoes weighs approximately 7 to 8 ounces. Therefore, you can expect to get close to 1.75 cups when the tomatoes are drained.
canned tomatoes w/ green chilies
You can use canned diced tomatoes or cherry tomatoes as a substitute for plum tomatoes in a recipe.
You can substitute diced tomatoes or tomato sauce for stewed tomatoes in the recipe.
Stewed tomatoes are cooked or stewed and diced tomatoes are cut into pieces but all tomatoes remain tomatoes no matter what you do to them. Not true at all. During processing of diced tomatoes a firmer less ripe tomato is used to hold up for a smaller cut, while stewed tomatoes are from fruit that is vine ripened longer and much more flavorful. Different tomatoes and lengths of ripening vary for all canned products which affects flavor.
you roll a dice and yell, TOMATO
diced tomatoes
No, diced are more chunky chunks of tomatoes, where as crushed looks more like a sauce to me. I guess it's preference to. I like to use diced with my lasagna but some people prefer crushed.