Homemade Pizza Sauce

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.

Course dip, glutenfree, sauce, vegan

Cuisine Global

Keyword basil, garlic, glutenfree, oliveoil, onion, oregano, parsley, pizzasauce, quickandeasy, red capsicum, tomtatoes, vegan

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Servings bowl

Calories 637kcal

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.

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