Pizza Sauce
Pizza is an Italian dish which is every foodie’s first love.
Italian pizza and pasta both are internationally famous and both dishes call
for a tomato sauce. There are various types of popular pizzas like thin crust
pizza, American style pizza, deep dish pizza etc. Mostly all of them require a
tomato based sauce.
In Italy they have world’s best tomatoes which is not
possible to get outside of Italy. To make a great tomato sauce, you first need
great tomatoes, which is fresh, flame red, little watery but you can use canned
tomatoes as well.
The most important ingredients for pizza tomato sauce are
olive oil, garlic, tomatoes and Italian herbs like oregano and basil other than
these it’s up to you if you want to add onions, carrot or any other vegetables,
sugar etc. You can experiment with the recipe according to your taste.
Also this tomato based pizza sauce can be cooked or uncooked
too. Some belief that sauce should be cooked because ingredients and herbs
needed the heat to release their respective flavors on the other hand some
belief that sauce will get cooked inside the oven on top of pizza so the sauce
should be uncooked. So you can use either way as you like, I enjoy both cooked
and uncooked sauces.
Here I am sharing recipe to make pizza sauce with fresh tomatoes. Hope you
will like it and try it, so happy pizza eating!
Recipe: Tomato Sauce from scratch
This is very simple recipe to make pizza sauce from fresh
tomatoes, aroma of the Italian herbs will fill your house. This sauce has a chunky
texture and can also be used as pasta sauce. Herbs release their flavor very
nicely when cooked by simmering it until the right consistency (easy to spread)
hence the sauce should not be watery and runny.
Ingredients
- 2 Medium sized fresh plum tomatoes
- 2 tbsp. Olive oil
- 2-3 Cloves of garlic crushed
- 1 Small yellow onion chopped
- ½ tsp. Black pepper
- Italian herbs dried (oregano, basil)
- Salt to taste
Method
- To blanch tomatoes, fill a large pot with water and bring to boil, put tomatoes to water and let boil till tomato skin splits open around a minute
- Transfer tomatoes to cold water it will make easy to peel the skin
- Now after peeling the skin chop tomatoes to cook
- Heat oil in a pan and add onions and then garlic and sauté until soft
- Add Tomatoes and then dried herbs, mix it well
- Cover the pan and
simmer heat about 30
minutes, keep gently stirring occasionally, until thickened
- Season to taste with salt and pepper
Note: The sauce can be made 4 to 5 days in advance of use
and stored tightly covered in the refrigerator, take it out when ready to use.
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