Pizza Sauce Recipe
Pizza sauce made at home — Homemade Pizza Sauce, Fresh & Bright Pizza Sauce, Copycat Pizzeria Pizza Sauce, and a garlicky white sauce for pizza night.
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A simple and delicious pizza sauce made from scratch, perfect for your homemade pizzas. From Facebook.
Crystal SchuttIngredients
- 1 can (15 oz) crushed tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch (optional) red pepper flakes
Instructions
- 1In a saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add minced garlic and sauté for 30 seconds until fragrant.
- 2Stir in tomato paste and cook for 1 minute.
- 3Add crushed tomatoes, oregano, basil, sugar, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Stir well.
- 4Simmer uncovered for 15–20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened to your liking.
- 5Let cool slightly before spreading on pizza dough.
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A jar of sauce from the store gets the job done, but a can of crushed tomatoes, a few cloves of garlic, and five minutes gets you something that actually tastes like your kitchen. It's the cheapest part of pizza night and the part everyone notices.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on Friday nights when the dough is rising, when there's half a can of tomato paste in the fridge, or when the kids want pizza again and nobody wants to run to the store.
Every recipe here is a sauce you can stir together at home, from the simple Homemade Pizza Sauce with crushed tomatoes and garlic to Fresh & Bright Pizza Sauce with San Marzanos and sun-dried tomatoes, Copycat Pizzeria Pizza Sauce with a splash of red wine vinegar, Christie's Fire-Kissed Pizza Sauce from Roma tomatoes, and creamy white options like the Blue Cheese White Pizza Sauce.
Quick Tips
- 1
Skip the cooking
Uncooked sauce made from good canned tomatoes tastes fresher after 10 to 12 minutes in a hot oven. Cooking it twice can turn it flat and dull.
- 2
Crush tomatoes by hand
Squeeze whole peeled tomatoes through your fingers instead of using a blender. A blender whips in air and turns the sauce pale orange.
- 3
Stir in tomato paste
Two tablespoons of paste thickens a thin sauce so it won't soak the crust. Let it sit 15 minutes before spreading.
- 4
Go light on top
Use about 1/3 cup of sauce for a 12-inch crust and leave a half-inch border. Too much sauce steams the dough instead of baking it.
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