Pizza sauce is tomato based sauce prepared by blenching tomatoes and spiced with herbs and garlic. Essentially it is used as a spread for the pizza base before topping and baking pizza.
While you can easily get hundreds of option in a store, but it cannot match the content of preparing a homemade pizza sauce. To be honest, i was always, huge fan of domino’s veg pizza. until one day, when i realised how easy is to prepare pizza sauce. I knew preparing pizza is an easy task, but was always skeptical about pizza sauce recipe. I even use the same pizza sauce recipe in pasta, spaghetti and lasagna. I use the same sauce to prepare pizzas in oven and also pizzas on tawa or stove top.
Ingredients6 ripped red tomatoes
2 tsp oil
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
¼ onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp basil leaves, finely chopped
¾ tsp sugar
¾ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
salt to taste
½ tsp oregano
¼ tsp chilli flakes
1 tbsp tomato sauce
½ tbsp butter
Method
* Slit x on bottom of tomatoes.
* Furthermore, add 6 tomatoes (slitted at bottom) into boiling water and blanch.
* Close the vessel and boil for 3-4 minutes or till the skin starts to leave from tomatoes.
* Further, peel the skin of tomatoes once they cooled completely.
* Then take 3 peeled tomatoes and blend to smooth purees.
* Chop other 3 tomatoes discarding the seeds.
* Transfer to the plate and keep aside.
*Furthermore, heat oil in a non stick tawa or heavy bottomed pan.
* Add chopped garlic and saute till they turn slightly golden brown.
* Further, saute chopped onions till they change colour.
then add chopped - deseeded tomatoes and cook completely.
* Mash in between so that it turns mushy soon.
* Also add prepared tomato puree (3 balanced tomatoes).
* Mix well and add basil, sugar, chilli powder, oregano, chilli flakes and salt.
* Mix well and get the sauce to a boil.
* Further, cover and simmer the sauce for atleast 5 minutes or till the sauce turns thick.
* Also add tomato sauce and butter.
* Finally, mix well and pizza sauce is ready to prepare pizzas or pastas