Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe, How to make Pizza Sauce

Homemade pizza sauce recipe

Whenever we want to make pizza at home we often buy the pizza sauce from the market, largely because of the misconception that store brought sauce is tastier and making the sauce at home is difficult or time taking.

As the crust and vegetables are usually bland or very light in taste ,the main taste of pizza is from the sauce and if you make this sauce at home you can adjust the taste and spiciness according to your taste.

The pizza sauce available in the market  have a good amount of food colors and preservative and as homemade pizza sauce is made fresher so it is healthier and tastier and is very cheaper as compared to the store brought ones. I always make pizza base and pizza sauce at home.

Making Pizza sauce is very easy,you just need fresh ripe red tomatoes and the basic Italian herbs which we use for making pizza. The process is almost like making the tomato gravy we usually make at home. The important thing is to balance the flavours and to cook it to the right consistency,too thick or too thin sauce will not work properly,either it will not absorb in the base or will make it too soggy. So do careful about this and you will make an awesome sauce easily at home .

I have also posted –Vegetable pizza recipe and Cheesy Pizza puffs ,you can use this pizza sauce to make these recipes.

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Pizza Sauce Recipe ,How to make Pizza Sauce

Homemade pizza sauce recipe

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time35 mins

Total Time45 mins

Course: Kids Friendly

Cuisine: International Cuisine, Italian cuisine

Ingredients

• 600 grams Tomatoes / Tamatar
• 300 grams Tomato puree
• 75 grams Bell Peppers / Capsicum / Shimla Mirch
• 2 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch chopped
• 1.5 tsp Oregano
• 3/4 tsp Basil Leaves
• 4 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
• 1.5 tsp Chilli Flakes / Kuti Lal Mirch
• 1/2 tsp Pepper Powder / Kali Mirch
• To taste Salt / Namak
• 1.5 tsp Sugar / Chini
• 3 tbsp Olive Oil / Zeitoun Ka Tel

Instructions

• Wash and chop tomatoes in small pieces.
• Heat oil in a broad pan and add the chopped green chilies and capsicum pieces.
• Stir fry for a minute on medium heat.
• Now add oregano and basil and stir for a minute.
• Add the chopped tomatoes and cook on medium heat till they become soft and mushy.
• Now add the tomato puree ,salt, sugar,chili flakes and pepper powder and cook on low heat.
• When sauce become thick add the tomato ketchup and cook for a minute.
• Check the seasoning and adjust salt and chili if needed.
• When sauce cool down completely then spread on pizza or use to make pasta.
• The left over sauce can be easily stored for a week in the refrigerator.

Notes

Note-

1. Use fully ripen and red tomatoes to make pizza sauce.
2. Instead of using chopped raw tomatoes you can blend them and use,if you want a smooth fine sauce .
3. Tomato puree -You can blanch ,peel and grind the tomatoes and cook till it reduces or can use ready made tomato puree.