Roma Tomato 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.

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 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!  

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.

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! 

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

PERFECT, right?

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.

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!

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

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