Fresh Tomato Sauce

Delicious homemade tomato sauce that only requires 3 ingredients and you can use in any recipe that calls for canned tomato sauce.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Worth the effort! Making your own fresh tomato sauce has a few steps involved but it is not a difficult process. The end result is so good! You get tomato sauce that tastes like a fresh from the garden tomato!

Customize your sauce. I love that I can control the sugar and salt content when I make my own tomato sauce.

Only 3 ingredients. You only need tomatoes, a little sugar and salt.

When is the best time to make tomato sauce?

When that bumper crop of tomatoes hits, is the perfect time to make your own tomato sauce and then freeze it for the rest of the year.

What Kind of Tomatoes are Best for Fresh Tomato Sauce?

Using tomatoes that are at their peak of ripeness will yield the best tomato sauce. I tend to use roma tomatoes for my sauce but will also throw in whatever other tomatoes are ripe in the garden at the time (i.e. early girl, beefsteak etc.) The more watery pulp a tomato has the longer you will want to cook the sauce to thicken it up.

Ingredients Needed

• Tomatoes. I like to use roma tomatoes for my sauce but will also throw in whatever other tomatoes are ripe in the garden at the time (i.e. early girl, beefsteak etc.)
• Sugar optional
• Salt, optional

How much sauce does it make?

It does take a fair amount of tomatoes to make tomato sauce. To get 6-8 cups of tomato sauce I will use about 6-7 pounds of tomatoes. So about 1 pound per cup of sauce.

How to Peel Tomatoes

• Remove the stems from the tomatoes. I use a sharp paring knife to remove it.

• Next, Boil a pot of water.
• Fill another bowl with water and ice.
• Grab two empty bowls, one for the skins and one for the peeled tomatoes.

• Once water boils, place 4-5 tomatoes into the water. Leave them in the water for about 30 seconds or until the skin of the tomato begins to crack. Don’t leave them in too long or they will begin to turn to mush.

• Remove the tomatoes from the water and place them into the bowl with the ice water. This will stop the cooking process. Let them cool for a few seconds and then remove the skins. If the skin of the tomato does not crack it will probably still come off easily. You may need to just puncture it with the end of the knife and then the peel should come right off.

• Place the skins in one bowl and the tomatoes in the other.

How to Make Fresh Tomato Sauce

• Place peeled whole tomatoes in a blender. and puree. I like my sauce fairly smooth, not any chunks. If you want a chunkier sauce you can just dice up the tomatoes and then start cooking them. They will cook down more as they cook so allow for that.

• You can also use an immersion blender to puree your tomatoes.

• Pour your pureed tomatoes into a pan and heat on the stove. You can season the sauce with a little sugar and salt at this point if you would like. I usually add in 1-2 Tbsp of sugar and 1/2 tsp of salt.

• The amount of time you cook the sauce will depend on how thick you want your sauce and how watery your tomatoes were. I cooked mine for about an hour and it reduced by one third. The shorter the cooking time, the fresher the taste and the thinner the sauce.

Your sauce is now ready to use!

Frequently Asked Questions

Check out these other delicious tomato recipes:

• Fresh Tomato Soup
• Tomato Chicken Pasta
• Instant Pot Tomato Soup
• Roasted Tomatoes
• Tomato Bacon Cups

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