This easy recipe for The Perfect Homemade Tomato Sauce shows how simple it can be to make Perfect Homemade Tomato Sauce from scratch right in your own kitchen. A Perfect Tomato Sauce can be used in many ways. Tomato sauce is one of the few dishes that combine all five: salty, sweet, bitter, tart and umami. To build all of these flavors, the sauce will take most of the day as you craft each, one on top of the other.