Homemade Pizza Sauce is a easy, tasty, flavorful and economical sauce made with fresh tomatoes, capsicum, onion and garlic. It is flavored with herbs – basil, oregano, parsley. It can be made and refrigerated for a week or freeze up to 3 months. It is vegan and glutenfree.
I make this pizza sauce regularly fresh at home and refrigerate for a week. We all love homemade pizza with our homemade sauce at our home. Also my son will like to have Pizza wrap, Bread pizza, Bhakri pizza using this sauce. Sometimes I also pack pasta in red sauce for his lunch box using this sauce. So one simple sauce to make many magical dishes!!
Few tips:
Use nice red ripe tomatoes and always blanch them. It will give a taste similar to the canned tomatoes.
Use tomato paste as it gives nice taste and thickness to the sauce.
I have used more dried herbs and parsley and hence it gave a little dark color to my sauce. You can reduce the quantity of herbs.
I have use red capsicum at it imparts nice taste and red colour to the sauce. You can use green capsicum in place of red capsicum.
I prefer using flat broad pan to make sauce as it helps the water of the sauce to evaporate quicker. The sauce is thickened quickly.
Blend the sauce to a coarse texture.
So friends do try making this simple and easy sauce at home and do share your feed back with me.
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Homemade Pizza Sauce
Equipment
- Pan with lid
- spoon
- chopper/mixer grinder
- pot
- serving bowl
- knife
Ingredients
- 6 tomato
- 1 red capsicum or green capsicum
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 150 g tomato paste
- 1/2 tbsp basil dry or 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
- 2 tsp oregano dried
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp parsley (optional)dried or 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp chili flakes or more as per your choice
Instructions
- Boil water in a deep pot. Criss cross the tomatoes at the end and drop them in the boiling water.
- Let the tomatoes boil for 6-7 minutes. The skin will start to come out of the tomatoes. The tomatoes are blanched.
- Remove them in a strainer and keep aside to cool.
- After the tomatoes are cooled, remove the skin and chopped them roughly.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add onion and chopped garlic and saute them till translucent.
- Add red capsicum and saute. (If you do not have red capsicum, you can add green capsicum).
- Saute till the capsicum are soften.
- Now add the blanched tomatoes and mix well. Cover and cook for 6-7 minutes on medium heat.
- The tomatoes will mix well and will become soft.
- Now add all the herbs - dried basil, dried oregano and dried parsley. (I have added a little more of each of the herb. You can reduce its quantity).(As I have added more herbs the colour of the sauce is dark).
- Mix well and saute for a minute. Now add the tomato paste.
- Mix well and add salt. Mix well.
- Add chili flakes and mix well.
- Add sugar and mix well.
- Now simmer till the mixture thickens around 5 more minutes.
- Put the thickened mixture in the blender/chopper/mixture grinder.
- Blend it into a coarse paste. The homemade pizza sauce is ready.
- Remove the homemade sauce in a bowl. Let it cool and you can put in an airtight container and refrigerate for a week or freeze for three months.
Nice recipe!!