• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to footer navigation
  • Skip to header navigation
  • Skip to privacy navigation
  • Skip to recipes navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Blog
  • Contact

Brooklyn Farm Girl

Cooking And Gardening in NYC

PopularStewed Tomatoes
let's be friends
join my free recipe club!
  • New? Start Here
  • recipes
    • Course
      • Breakfast
      • Desserts
      • Dinner
      • Drinks
      • Side Dishes
      • Snacks
    • Type
      • 30 Minute Meals
      • Breads
      • Brownies & Bars
      • Cakes
      • Casseroles
      • Cheesy
      • Cookies
      • Dips
      • Donuts
      • Holidays
      • Kid Friendly
      • Mac and Cheese
      • Muffins
      • Pasta
      • Pizza
      • Potluck
      • Salads
      • Smoothies
      • Sneaky Vegetables
      • Soups
      • Vegan
      • Vegetarian
    • Meat
      • Beef
      • Chicken
      • Pork
      • Seafood
      • Turkey
    • Method
      • Baked
      • Canning
      • Drying & Storing
      • Freezing
      • Instant Pot
      • Roasted
      • Slow Cooker
      • Stovetop
    • Season
      • Spring
      • Summer
      • Fall
      • Winter
  • Vegetable Index
  • Urban Gardening
    • Let’s Harvest
    • Tutorials
    • Seed Calendar
    • Compost in Brooklyn
  • About Me
    • About Pamela
    • Our Garden
    • Editorial Guidelines
  • Life & motherhood
    • Journal
    • Motherhood
    • Our Upstate Adventure
    • Cats, Cats, Cats
    • Crafts
  • Videos
  • PopularStewed Tomatoes
Home » Recipe Type » Pasta
4.8 from 227 reviews

Roma Tomato Sauce

25 minutes
tomato
By: Pamela Reed
Posted:8/6/18
Updated:4/23/25
Jump to Recipe

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that’s perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

Creamy Thick Roma Tomato Sauce

Homemade Roma Tomato Sauce

It’s August so you know what that means, right? Our tomato plants are giving us pounds of tomatoes to pick every day! Usually I collect the week’s tomatoes and spend hours in the kitchen on the weekend making sauces, like my favorite oven roasted cherry tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and stewed tomatoes.  And of course fresh tomato salsa – what would be a August be without salsa?  

This year we grew lots of Roma tomatoes so I wanted to create a recipe that was 1) easy 2) delicious 3) let the roma tomato taste shine!    Let me introduce you to Homemade Roma Tomato Sauce – I think it might become your new favorite (check out the comments!).

Fresh Roma Tomatoes Cut Up For Sauce

Fresh Tomato Sauce

Let’s talk about easy this homemade sauce is. I have amazing news for you. Are you ready?

First, you use fresh tomatoes.

Second… are you really ready for this?

You don’t need to blanch or peel your tomatoes for this tomato sauce!  Seriously!  High 5! 

I really wanted to make a easy sauce.  During the Summer, I want to limit my time spent stirring sauces over the hot stove and instead chase my little one around with water balloons.   This sauce is simple and doesn’t require any fancy blanching or peeling techniques.  We’re just going to use the tomatoes whole.  Trust me on this one.

What type of tomatoes should I use for tomato sauce?

Quick answer to a commonly asked question. Do I need to use roma tomatoes?  No, you can use any type of tomato you want.  You might need to boil them for longer depending on their water content, but any type of tomato will work!  

Garden Tomato Sauce

How to Make Tomato Sauce for Pasta

Cut up your tomatoes into about 1-2 inch pieces and add to a large pot.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper.   Depending on how many tomatoes I have, I will double or triple the batch to make it all at once.

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

Bring your tomatoes to a boil and watch how they will break down.  You can see your tomatoes are already starting to turn into a sauce! 

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

You can see how the peels of the tomatoes started coming off the tomatoes naturally due to the hot temperature.   By the way, the tomatoes taste amazing already!

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

Now mince some garlic.

And measure out your olive oil.  By the way, can I just say how good of a deal it is to buy olive oil in a bulk container if you use it often?  Olive oil is a must have for our Summer vegetables! We save so much money buying it this way!

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

Add your olive oil to the pot and grab your immersion blender.  It’s another must have item for Summer because it also makes the best tomato soup (recipe coming soon!)! If you don’t have a immersion blender you can transfer to a blender or food processor, but be careful because it’s very hot!

Immersion Blender for Tomato Sauce

Now give it a few seconds of the immersion blender, and blend until your desired sauce thickness.  

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

I like a sauce that’s slightly chunky but yet still smooth.  Does that make sense? I don’t think so, but here’s what my sauce looks like!

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

PERFECT, right?

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

You can serve the sauce immediately (on some good pasta!) or store in the refrigerator for a few days.  I always make at least one jar to store in the refrigerator to serve for dinner soon.

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.

This sauce is so delicious!  I love how the taste of the Roma Tomatoes really shines through!

How to Freeze Tomato Sauce

You can also freeze this tomato sauce to enjoy later — even months from now! I always keep several bags stocked in my freezer because I make big batches every summer. Homemade tomato sauce will stay fresh in the freezer for up to 6 months. There’s truly nothing better than pulling out a container of garden tomato sauce when it’s snowing in January!

Freezing Tomato Sauce In Freezer Bags

This is now my official favorite tomato sauce to make with roma tomatoes! Now time to go pick some tomatoes and get making  sauce! 

Canning Roma Tomato Sauce

Pin for later:

Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that's perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing.
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
Free Recipe Club
4.75 from 227 reviews

Roma Tomato Sauce

Print
Roma Tomato Sauce recipe that requires no peeling or blanching! This is a easy creamy sauce that’s perfect for growing garden tomatoes! Serve on pasta, or use later by canning or freezing. 
By: Pamela Reed
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
Total Time 25 minutes minutes
serves 8 cups

Ingredients

  • 5 pounds tomatoes cut into 1-2 inch pieces
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1/4 cup olive oil

Instructions

  • Add tomatoes to a large pot.  Add salt and pepper and stir.  Bring tomatoes to a boil over medium high heat. Boil for 20 minutes.  The tomatoes will start to break down and more liquid will form.
  • Add garlic and olive oil to the pot and stir.   Use immersion blender on low and blend until desired sauce thickness. 
  • Serve immediately or store in the refrigerator to use in a few days.  
  •  Alternatively you can freeze in freezer bags to use for later months.

Video:

Notes

Recipe makes approximately 8 cups of sauce.   Adjust recipe according to how many tomatoes you have.  Often I will double or triple the batch. 

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 87kcal (4%)
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: homemade tomato sauce, roma tomato sauce
Summer
Did you make this?I love seeing what you’ve made! Tag me on Instagram at @BrooklynFarmGirl and don’t forget to leave a comment & rating below.

Similar Recipes

  • Baked Tomato Pie with Ricotta and Basil
  • Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
  • Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
  • Oven Roasted Beef Tomato Sauce

Reader Interactions

join the free recipe club

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight To Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

4.75 from 227 votes (185 ratings without comment)

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

I love hearing from you! Submit your question or recipe review here. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Made this? Rate this recipe:





  1. Debbie Hadrick says

    September 22, 2024 at 6:39 pm

    Absolutly perfect, so simple. I added a package of Lawry’s spaghetti sauce dry package mix. I canned mine. Enough for the winter

    Reply
  2. Lydia says

    September 18, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    A nice quick recipe and so fresh! I chose to use the food mill. This is great for a substitute for canned San Marzano tomatoes. Stays a long time in the fridge and freezing will make this last even longer. Thank you!

    Reply
  3. Brittany says

    August 15, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    Can I get the psi and time for canning in a pressure canner? Thanks

    Reply
    • Rick Trimble says

      August 16, 2024 at 5:47 pm

      I use 15 psi for 30 minutes

      Reply
  4. Beth says

    June 25, 2024 at 1:48 pm

    Excited to try! Are there any canning directions as well?

    Reply
  5. Brenda says

    September 28, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    I love this recipe!! So easy I’ve made it twice this season. Lots of tomatoes
    Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  6. Katrina says

    September 21, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    This recipe is a keeper. Thank you 😊

    Reply
    • Pamela Reed says

      September 25, 2023 at 11:50 am

      So happy to hear you liked the tomato sauce! Thanks for stopping by Katrina!

      Reply
  7. Paula says

    September 15, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    This is SO easy and delicious!! I didn’t change a thing in your recipe!! Thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  8. Penny says

    September 3, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    Did I miss something? Where are the directions for canning?

    Reply
  9. Joi says

    August 31, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    I LOVE this recipe. I added onion & celery & Italian seasoning. My process was I siphoned off 2 cups of tom juice per batch with my canner/juicer, then pulverized the pulp in my VitaMix, then added the salt, pepper & olive oil, then simmered. I found that adding the O.O. right at the start of simmering created less tendency to stick.
    Awesome recipe! It was a joy to hear the pint can lids do their seal pop111111

    Reply
  10. Nancy says

    August 31, 2023 at 9:45 am

    I’ve seen lots of people asking if you are able to can this sauce. I’d love to do this and our Roma tomatoes are ready right now! Can you answer please?

    Reply
  11. Adina says

    August 23, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Simple and simply delicious! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Pamela Reed says

      August 24, 2023 at 9:19 am

      So happy you liked it, thanks for stopping by Adina! 🙂

      Reply
  12. Donatella Bennett says

    August 18, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    Can you emulsify the tomatoes before you cook them?

    Reply
    • Pamela Reed says

      August 22, 2023 at 1:38 pm

      There’s no need to do that since you’re going to blend them later in the recipe.

      Reply
  13. Ashlee says

    August 12, 2023 at 6:34 pm

    Love how easy this is! Can’t wait to try it. How do you process for canning? Water bath for 20 mins? Add lemon juice? Salt?

    Reply
    • Rick Trimble says

      August 16, 2024 at 5:49 pm

      I use 15 psi for 30 minutes

      Reply
Older Comments

Primary Sidebar

welcome!

Hi! I'm Pamela, an artist Mom who shares family recipes. My farm is a 1,000 sq ft apartment in NYC. Let's make dinner together.

Read More

join the free
recipe club!

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight to Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

TOP POSTS

Half Sour Pickles

The Best Stewed Tomatoes Ever

Unstuffed Bell Pepper Casserole with Ground Beef

Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

Recipe Index
Vegetable Index
Follow On Facebook
Follow On Instagram
Free Recipe Club

fresh this week view all

How to Store and Freeze Fresh Blueberries

Irish Potato Candy (Pennsylvania Dutch)

Classic Stuffed Peppers

Peanut Butter Protein Cookies

As Featured On
free recipe club!
Get weekly recipes, videos, and gardening tips to your inbox!
join the club!
EST. 2013
let's be friends
  • Recipe Index
  • Veggie Index
  • Urban Gardening
  • Web Stories
Back To Top
© 2025 - All Rights Reserved
  • Privacy Policy & Terms
Site Credits Designed by Melissa Rose Design Developed by Once Coupled

join the recipe club!

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight to Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

9.4K shares

Rate This Recipe

Your vote:




A rating is required
A name is required
An email is required

Recipe Ratings without Comment

Something went wrong. Please try again.