This Rich and Robust Homemade Pizza Sauce is perfect for your pizza pie, sub sandwich or just dipping breadsticks. It’s oil-free and simple to make, plus you can freeze it for your future pizza nights.
Rich and Robust Homemade Pizza Sauce
When I weighed nearly 300 lbs, I loved pizza. I would eat half of a large pizza, breadsticks, some form of chocolate for dessert and wash it down with soda. I still love pizza and enjoy eating it weekly, but now that I know better, I make my own pizza. It allows me to control the amount of sodium, fat and calories. Plus, I love that I’m not ingesting all of the preservatives and chemicals found in fast food pizzas.
HOW DO YOU MAKE HOMEMADE PIZZA IN THE OVEN?
You want to make sure your oven is preheated and very hot. I suggest heating the oven to 500°F or higher. Arrange a rack in the lower-middle part of the oven (if you have a baking stone, place it on the rack) and heat the oven to 500°F or higher.
DO YOU HAVE TO USE A PIZZA STONE?
The ceramic material of a pizza stone holds heat more evenly than a metal baking sheet, and the porous surface draws water out of particularly wet areas of the dough as it cooks. Also, when you preheat the stone, it gives the dough a strong burst of initial heat which causes the crust to puff.
However, I still use a metal pizza pan. I have both a pizza pan with holes (this one) and a solid pizza pan (this one). They are both amazing and give the pizza a crispy bottom while still allowing for a doughy, chewy edge.
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Rich and Robust Homemade Pizza Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp basil
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- pinch salt and pepper
Instructions
- Saute chopped onion in 1 tsp water on medium low. Add more water as needed to keep the onion from burning.
- After 4-5 minutes, add garlic, basil, oregano, pepper flakes,and fennel, Cook 1 minute longer.
- Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, salt, sugar and bay leaf. Simmer on low for 5 - 30 minutes. The longer it cooks the deeper and more robust the flavors.
How to freeze Pizza Sauce
I suggest you double or triple the recipe and freeze some of this Rich and Robust Homemade Pizza Sauce. Simply ladle into clean 1/2 pint canning jars, leaving 1″ headroom to allow for expansion. Cool completely, then seal and stack upright in the freezer. Remember to label and date the jars. Lasts up to 1 week in the fridge and up to 6 months (or more) in the freezer.
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Cindy
I’m definitely trying this recipe. Yours seems so easy to make! It looks really good too.
I super love pizza too! I can eat it everyday! Haha! Glad you know how to make your own pizza. I should take notes from you! Thanks for sharing this! 🙂
oh wow it sounds quite delicious and tasty one..glad you shared the blog post with us..found it quite interesting and lovely..great work though…
I love pizza and I don’t care if many considered it unhealthy. Pizza makes me happy, and I love generous toppings 🙂 Lots of olives too!
You definitely will divert me from my diet with such recipes and pictures. God damn does it look luscious and tasty!
This looks so good. We’ve been making a lot of homemade pizza sauce lately, it makes me miss NJ (since we just moved from the best pizza state in the country ha ha).
I am a pizza lover. I want to try this recipe that you gave. It looks tasty. I hope you will share a lot more recipes. We will try o do it with my husband.