Pizza Sauce Recipe from Scratch

Are you looking for a pizza sauce recipe from scratch? Then take a look at the article given below that will help you prepare your homemade recipe for pizza sauce.

Pizza! Just the name is enough to bring water to your mouth. It is one of the most popular menu all over the world. This is a unique food item where you can experiment with your favorite ingredients. The quality of the pizza crust, pizza sauce and the toppings used, together decide the final taste of the pizza.

Preparing a pizza at home can be fun. When you are preparing a homemade pizza, you can prepare a pizza dough recipe without yeast and homemade pizza sauce. Tomato is the main ingredient of pizza sauce and hence ensure that you buy fresh tomatoes for your pizza sauce. So, want to learn how to make pizza sauce recipe from scratch? Then check out some pizza sauce recipes given below.

Simple Pizza Sauce Recipes from the Scratch

Since you have taken it upon yourself to ending the pizza making process through and through, let me tell you a secret. It is better that you use fresh tomatoes and puree them, rather than use canned tomatoes. In the following recipe, you will see that I have asked you to use canned tomatoes, but you can easily substitute it for fresh tomatoes. You just need to use 25% more of fresh tomato purée than what you get from a can. If you make tomato purée in bulk and store it in sterilized jars, you can keep it in the refrigerator for approximately a month! So, here goes.

Ingredients

Tomatoes (crushed), 1 28-oz. can
Onion, 1 (large, cubed)
Garlic, 2 cloves (minced)
Oregano, 2 tbsp. (dried)
Olive oil, 2 tbsp.
Basil pesto sauce, 2 tbsp. (made separately by mixing basil leaves, kosher salt, olive oil and garlic cloves in a food processor)
Kosher salt, 2 tsp.

1. Tomato Pizza Sauce

This tomato-based condiment is perfect for a pizza to be topped with cheese and pepperoni! Here's how you go about concocting it.

♨ How to Make ♨

Begin by heating the olive oil over medium heat and then throwing in the onion bits into the hot oil. Remember, olive oil has a low smoking point, so you need to be vigilant about it. Once the onion turns translucent, add the garlic to the pan and sauté until it turns a golden. Pour in the tomato at this juncture and add the pesto and oregano. Use a ladle to mix it all up well and then let it simmer for a good 15 minutes. Keep stirring this mixture regularly or it will stick to the bottom and burn. After 15 minutes, pour it into a bowl and blend it well with a hand blender. Make sure that the head of the blender is completely covered by the sauce as otherwise you will spray the sauce all over the place. Once the sauce is satisfactorily smooth, pour a ladleful onto a pizza crust and then move on to decorating your pizza.

Now there are multiple version of pizza sauce with a tomato base. Below you will find a few of them.

Pizza Sauce with...

... Celery, Carrots and Capsicum

... Parmesan Cheese

... Red Pepper

Begin with puréeing 10 ripe, skinned tomatoes in a food-processor, after boiling them in hot water for 3 minutes. In a pan, heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Once it is optimally hot, throw in 2 stalks of chopped celery, 1 finely diced onion and 2 cloves of minced garlic in the pan and keep stirring until the onion becomes translucent and the garlic takes on a golden shade. Use a ladle to mix in all the ingredients after adding ¼ cup of finely chopped fresh basil, a bay leaf, 1 very finely diced red capsicum and 2 finely chopped up carrots and wait till they soften. The heat should be medium. To this add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 chopped and skinned tomatoes and the entire tomato purée that you made earlier. Let the entire concoction sit on the stove and simmer for a good 90 minutes. Stir all the ingredients in every 15 minutes and then season with salt and pepper as per taste. After 90 minutes, or once you have reached the consistency you are looking for, remove the bay leaf and turn the heat off. You pizza sauce is all ready to rock your world!

The beauty of this recipe is that you do not need to begin with puréeing tomatoes which is, let's face it, quite a messy affair. Just heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter in a relatively large frying pan and then toss in ½ a cup of chopped onions, a minced garlic clove and ¼ cup of finely hacked celery. Once the garlic becomes slightly brownish and the onion softens and becomes translucent, pour in an 8-oz. can of tomato sauce and a 6-oz. can of tomato paste. Use a spatula to mix all the ingredients, wait till it takes on a smooth texture and then add in a teaspoon each of fennel seeds, dry basil and dry oregano, 2 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese, ½ a teaspoon each of sugar and salt, a small bay leaf and ¼ teaspoon black pepper. Stir the concoction well to commingle everything and let a steady simmer set in for about an hour. You can take the pan off the heat sooner if the consistency seems right to you before 60 minutes. Discard the bay leaf before use the sauce on your pizza base.

Ok, here is the simplest version of a tomato-based pizza sauce and it is a godsend when it comes to a not so well-stocked larder. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet and toss in a finely chopped white onion and 2 tablespoons of minced garlic in it. Wait till the onion bits turn translucent. Stir continuously so that nothing chars or sticks to the bottom of the pan. Now fold in tomato purée made from 12 plum apples and season with 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of salt and ½ a tablespoon red pepper. Use a spatula to mix everything uniformly and then let a steady simmer set in on low heat. Remove the condiment from the stove once you get to the desired consistency. You can increase the amount of red pepper if you want it to be a little more red and hot!

2. Pesto Pizza Sauce

Ingredients

Basil, 30 gms. (fresh)
Ricotta cheese, 110 gms. (grated)
Parmesan cheese, 30 gms. (grated)
Extra virgin olive oil, 2 tbsp.
Walnuts, 2 tbsp.
Garlic, 1 clove
Kosher or sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, a pinch (freshly craunched)

Ingredients

Milk, 2 cups
Flour, ⅓ cup
Butter (or margarine), 1 tbsp.
Salt - ¾ tsp.
Onion powder, ⅛ tsp.
Paprika, ⅛ tsp.
Pepper, ⅛ tsp.

3. White Pizza Sauce

This tomato-based condiment is perfect for a pizza to be topped with cheese and pepperoni! Here's how you go about concocting it.

♨ How to Make ♨

Begin by heating the olive oil over medium heat and then throwing in the onion bits into the hot oil. Remember, olive oil has a low smoking point, so you need to be vigilant about it. Once the onion turns translucent, add the garlic to the pan and sauté until it turns a golden-ish shade. Pour in the tomato at this juncture and add the pesto and oregano. Use a ladle to mix it all up well and then let it simmer for a good 15 minutes. Keep stirring this mixture regularly or it will stick to the bottom and burn. After 15 minutes, pour it into a bowl and blend it well with a hand blender. Make sure that the head of the blender is completely covered by the sauce as otherwise you will spray the sauce all over the place. Once the sauce is satisfactorily smooth, pour a ladleful onto a pizza crust and then move on to decorating your pizza.

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