How exciting it would be when you can make pizzas easily at home without rushing to the market in search of best pizza sauce. Yes, best pizza sauce which is the key to get the authentic taste in pizzas at home. Here is the recipe of best ever Italian pizza sauce I am sharing with you all today. Slather them on bread, pizza bases or even buns with blobs of mozzarella and favourite toppings, grill it in oven or roast it on pan and Voila! You have your snacks or breakfast or weekend brunch or kids lunch box ready in minutes.
To make this pizza sauce I have used mix of fresh san marzano and roma tomatoes. If they are not available, you can opt for regular ripened tomatoes. I prefer pizza sauce to be chunky, but you can blend it with a hand blender to get the smooth consistency. Cool the sauce well before storing it.
With few tips and tricks you can make the best ever pizza sauce at home easily. Let’s see how to make fail proof best ever homemade pizza sauce….
Pizza Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1½ kgs Ripened Tomatoes (( I have used mix of fresh San marzano and Roma tomatoes))
- Generous handful of Fresh Basil (roughly torn)
- 2 tablespoons Fresh Oregano Leaves (( you may use 2teaspoon dried one))
- 8-9 Garlic Cloves (roughly crushed)
- 2 Onions (medium sized, chopped)
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Red Chili Flakes
- 3 tablespoons Olive Oil
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 1 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar/ White vinegar
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Clean, wash and wipe tomatoes well
- Trim from the top, make a slit on each tomatoes and put them in large heavy bottom pan
- Add 2 tablespoon of olive oil, mix. Cover and simmer for an hour. Stir few times in between
- After an hour, cool it slightly and carefully take off the peels from the tomatoes. Mash it lightly
- In another heavy bottom pan, heat 1 tablespoon of oil and 2 tablespoon of butter.
- Add crushed garlic and fry for few seconds until it releases aroma.
- Add chopped onions and fry until soft and pink
- Add cooked tomatoes and mix well. Cook on high heat for 2-3 minutes
- Add chili flakes, salt and pepper, oregano and mix well
- Add roughly torn basil and mix
- Cover and simmer for another 30 minutes.
- Add sugar, vinegar and mix.
- Cook for another 5 minutes.
- If you prefer your sauce to be smooth, blend in blender.
- Cool it completely.
- Store it in a clean sterilised jar and refrigerate easily upto 2 weeks.
Khushali says
Lovely recipes you make specially all veg ones
Usha Radhakrishnan says
Also, the cook time for the tomatoes was not 1 hour in the earlier version.
Please do clarify.
Many thanks!
Usha
Farrukh Aziz says
hi Usha,
Replied back to your queries in the earlier comment
Thanks,
Regards
Usha Radhakrishnan says
Thank you so much for your reply, Farrukh!
Yes, I did mistake the pizza sauce recipe for the pasta sauce one. So sorry.
Many thanks once again, for your awesome recipes too!
Best
Usha
Farrukh Aziz says
you are welcome Usha 🙂
Best Regards
Farrukh
Franci (Gaudio) says
Hello, Farrukh!
I follow your blog and just love your recipes, your photography, everything!
I'm Italian and I want to say that the recipe you shared today is a good recipe, but it's an american-style pizza sauce, as we don't have a "pizza sauce"!
Over here, to top pizza we use plain canned whole san marzano tomatoes or canned tomato sauce, that's just blended tomatoes. We top pizza with the sauce or the hand-crushed san marzano tomatoes directly from the can, add some salt and olive oil and the rest of the toppings... and that's all! The fresh basil would be added one minute before serving the pizza.
Thank you for sharing your recipes with us!
Francesca
Farrukh Aziz says
🙂 Thanks Franci
Usha Radhakrishnan says
Hello Farrukh!i have been using your pasta sauce recipe for a long time. It’s fabulous! I don’t see it on your blog anymore. Unfortunately, I haven’t noted it down as I used to follow it on your site every time I made it. I plan to make it tomorrow. Could you help me with the recipe, please? Many thanks!
Usha says
Hello! Where do you get these San Marzano tomatoes?
Farrukh Aziz says
Where are you based Usha???
Usha says
I am in Bangalore, Farrukh. And by the way, I tried your baby corn fritters' recipe. It worked really well. Thanks so much!
Farrukh Aziz says
You are Very Welcome Usha 🙂
San Marzano tomatoes you can get from first agro or Godrej Nature's Basket
Usha says
Thanks very much, Farrukh!
Usha Radhakrishnan says
Hi, hv you changed/ modified this recipe a bit? Didn't you use brown sugar, cayenne pepper in the other version? It could be a minor alteration but would like to know as I hv been following this recipe of yours (among other recipes) for some time and live it. Wouldn't want the taste to change in any way, so checking. Many thanks!
Warm wishes
Usha
Farrukh Aziz says
Hi Usha,
The recipe doesnt have any change or modification,it is made the same way as mentioned. I guess, you mistook this recipe of Pizza Sauce with Pasta Sauce recipe which uses cayenne pepper and brown sugar. Below is the link for pasta sauce, you can check it out 🙂
https://www.cubesnjuliennes.com/2014/11/italian-tomato-pasta-sauce-html/
Regards