Homemade Pizza Sauce from Scratch

A nice way to use up an ubandance of romas this season. Used my food processor for the first step. Decided to cut back the sugar a tad and it was still a sweet sauce. After simmering I used my emersion blender for step three. Threw in some dried basil and oregano. I advise cutting back the sugar to taste. Enjoy!

I've tried this recipe in the past and my only complaint is that it is a little sweet. I'm going to try it again today and ex the sugar.

My suggestion now is to hold off on garlic salt and sugar until the end, and then add it to taste.

I did not care for this recipe. Far too sweet.

I had extra tomatoes from my garden, so I decided to make this sauce. However, I didn't want to make as much so I halved it. Instead of garlic salt, I used fresh crushed garlic. I also omitted the sugar completely. I also added a sprinkle of dried oregano. I had to let it simmer for almost 2 hrs before it had the right consistency. Once it was done, I tasted it and it was amazing! Very flavorful. I couldn't believe how good it tasted being made with so few ingredients.

I saw that many reviewers cut back on the sugar, so I did as well and used brown sugar as that is what I grew up watching my mom use. I like more sauce on my pizza and felt it did not yield enough sauce for more than a couple pizzas. I think this is a good basic recipe and was happy to use Roma's out of the garden. I did not run through the food processor a second time bc I thought the consistency was fine after simmering down.

This recipe is very very sweet. Too sweet for traditional pizza, but just right as a dipping sauce (for cheese breads, Italian breads, etc.). This sauce would work well for fruit based pizzas like pineapple or a sweet BBQ chicken pizza. The texture is wonderful. We found no need to blend the sauce a second time as it cooked into smoothness just fine.

I think the measurements for the Garlic Salt are incorrect... I made this to the recipe EXCEPT I used 1 tb Garlic Powder and 1 Tb Garlic Salt (I thought 2 tb. salt seemed like too much) and it was still extremely salty. Next time I will use 1 Tsp. Garlic Salt and 1 tsp Garlic Powder.

Love this recipe! I have been making it forever, the one thing I suggest is don’t add all the sugar in at once, slowly add it in till it is at the sweetness you want

It's WAY too salty! Great start to a basic recipe.

I think this is very easy and a great recipe. I add a little touch of crushed red pepper and the sauce comes spicy! (that's how I like it) I just add in oregano and basil towards the end.....comes great and I get just enough for the pizzas I make! Leave the sugar for the end if you're not a "sweet sauce" person :)

I made the sauce as the recipe directed. It was quite sweet, but it balanced well with the saltier toppings. My wife and I enjoyed it, but we also fight over the last sugar cookie and marshmallows in the Lucky Charms.

wish I would've read the reviews before! I was in a hurry... way to sweet for my taste!

Modified based on reviews: Cut sugar to 1 tab. Replaced garlic salt with: 1 tsp salt and a pinch of black pepper. Added 1 tab Italian seasoning, 2 garlic cloves, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, and 1 pinch red pepper flakes. Leave other ingredients the same. Don’t forget to purée through blender once done for smooth sauce.

I reduced the sugar some, and it still had a nice flavor. I also sprinkled some Italian seasoning to taste.

I very much enjoyed this recipe. It was super simple to make with that I already had in my fridge (reader, please note I made this during the COVID-19 outbreak). I made this with 1 Roma tomato and a few baskets of cherry tomatoes. To make up the flavor I added a tablespoon, or so, of tomato paste. The whole apartment smelled delicious while it simmered. I do agree with the other reviewers re: sweetness and garlic salt. I personally had a clove of garlic on-hand, so I chopped up half and let it simmer along with the tomatoes. I think that helped cut the sweetness a good bit. However, I was a bit disappointed at the yield. I was expecting a lot more sauce. Maybe I just really love saucy pizza! Overall a delicious sauce!

Very easy to make. A sweet sauce but delicious.

Delicious!

Holy moley, this was waaaay too sweet. I didn't stray much from the recipe - added a little oregano, basil etc. and made a double batch. I went to do a taste after this simmered for a few hours, and I recoiled in terror - told my wife it was like tomato-ey applesauce. I see that others here who have reviewed this more favorably have commented that they have reduced or omitted the sugar - I will probably give that a shot next. But as written, this is dreadful.

Added a few standard items such as oregano etc. Best version I have tried yet. Nothing like using fresh roma tomato's. Mother in law a was eating it by the spoonful.

I have been making this for ages but with 1/2 the sugar and using coconut sugar instead its awesome

I really like this recipe the sauce is a bit sweet but good. At first the sauce was really watery but I cooked it on low for about and hour and a half. There wasn’t much sauce as there was at first so I just doubled the recipe.

Take most of that salt out and use real garlic. You can buy ready peeled garlic to make it easy. Just blend it with your tomatos

I used wine instead of water and added some basil and oregano. Came out perfect!! Will be making this again!!

Wow, this sauce was amazing! I halved the recipe and used a clove of fresh garlic and half tbsp of sea salt instead of using garlic salt. I would also recommend (as other users have suggested) omitting the sugar or adding it to taste at the very end.

It turned out great. I am usually sensitive to sweetness since I don't eat sweets so I didnt think it was sweet at all. I did cook it for about 30-45 min longer so that might have made the difference. The sauce is plain so I think it could use some Italian seasoning. But thats the beauty of the recipe, you can customize it how you like it.

Firstly, I was using my tomatoes from the garden so difficult to translate to 10 Roma tomatoes. Mine turned out orange vs red and not a huge quantity (I used about 30 small tomatoes). Reduced the sugar to just a taste. Overall it was wonderful.

It was very sweet for a sauce, it was closer to a dip. I cut out all of the sugar and only used 1/2 the salt the second time.

Cut back for smaller pizza added small amount of sugar to taste with basil, oregano, parsley was great!

I wanted to make this as my new go-to pizza sauce but even after 2 hours of simmering it was way too watery.

Had a large batch of tomatoes given to me by a neighbor, and we love pizza in my house, so gave this recipe a try....turned out great! Made no changes whatsoever - delicious. Froze leftovers for future use. Easy!

I just have a question. Do I have to peel the tomatoes before putting in blender or just throw whole thing in. Thanks. Need to know asap because I'm getting ready to try it. Help. Thanks.

This recipe worked, but you do need to tweak it. I would suggest adding no sugar, because the sauce is naturally quite sweet. Also, I added a teaspoon of oregano and plenty of fresh basil to the sauce and that made it more flavorful.

I wish I had read the reviews first. WAY too salty and too sweet. I doubled the tomatoes and it's still awful.

This recipe was fair. It gave me a good base. I added 3 garlic cloves oregano and basil. I too cut down sugar to 1 tbsp. The sauce did not cook down as thick as it needed to be. I ended up adding a 6 oz can of tomato paste. I then slow cooked it all afternoon. The flavor much improved after the tomato paste.

I love this sauce! I have made it several times as both pizza sauce and pasta sauce. I followed others advice and only used 2T sugar and used 1T Garlic salt and 1T Garlic powder. I also added 1T dried Basil and 1T dried Oregano. I cleaned the seeds out of the tomatoes and strained them to use the juices instead of the 1 cup of water. I didn’t remove the skins. And I only puréed them once. It takes longer to cook down for me, but worth the wait and the house smells fantastic when it’s cooking down.

Made this before (& thought I was able to add my own personal notes, but Allrecipes must've taken that feature out...:( ) ... Anyway, I'm trying it with brown sugar, like someone suggested, and 2T garlic powder & a scant T of salt, to cut back on some salt.

Subbed Red Wine Vinegar for white and used a touch of brown sugar instead of white. Added a pinch of siracha powder for just a little heat. Also, beefsteak made for a thicker blend.

I put in 1 tablespoon of sugar and thought it was plenty sweet. I also took 1 very large glove of garlic and added it to the blender with the tomatos before cooking it all up. I add very little water, maybe 1/2 cup, bc I wanted a thick consistency.

So, I'm basing this rating off of the end product as I followed it step-by-step (and COMPLETELY disregarded the comments section, that was my mistake), the end product was not that good, and completely messed up the pizza in the end. The sugar, as with others, was the problem at the end. It is insanely too sweet as per the ingredients listed, but I do think that this sauce could be good if you just completely breeze over the sugar - or at the very least, add way less sugar, maybe just a dash or something. But yeah, as is, this was massively too sweet.

I made the exact recipe and being inexperienced i discovered i should have invested time into buying quality roma tomatoes. The sauce was pale and the flavors didn't blend well. I am confident that if i had quality roma tomatoes the pizza sauce would have been far better. To fix the prob on hand, i added a can of tomato sauce and i was sure to buy back up premade tomato sauce. It turned out pretty good. Next time it will be far better.

This was way too salty. The 2 tablespoons of Garlic salt ruined it. Perhaps it is a misprint. Would not waste time making this as it is not edible as written

I was so excited to make this fresh sauce. This is FAR TOO SALTY. Maybe it should have 2 teaspoons of garlic salt. I love garlic and put garlic salt in almost everything but this sauce was inedible. We threw away the pizza.

I wished I would have read the reviews before trying this recipe. Waste of time and ingredients. Too sweet and did not taste or have the consistency of pizza sauce. Yuck!