| Homemade Pizza Sauce #Recipe |
Use ripe and red coloured tomatoes for best results. I ran out of fresh basil as I used all I had in making basil walnut pesto and hence used dried Italian seasoning mix to flavour it. This pizza sauce is quite versatile - you can use it to spread over pizza made from scratch at home, you can also use it for making bread pizza and even pasta. It goes well with macaroni, fusilli and penne pasta.
This recipe for pizza sauce can be doubled or tripled and you can freeze them in medium cubes for later use. When you have to use it, just thaw, reheat and use as needed.
Let's now check out how I make homemade pizza sauce from scratch using fresh tomatoes.
Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe Using Fresh Tomatoes
Yeilds - about 2 cups of pizza sauce
Ingredients:
6 large ripe tomatoes
1 medium onion
1/4 cup finely chopped green capsicum
3-4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
salt to taste
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp Italian seasoning mix
1/4 cup tomato ketchup
2 tbsp olive oil
Process:
1. Slit the bottom of the tomatoes in a cross. Boil enough water and submerge all the tomatoes in boiling water.
2. Keep them in boiling water for 2 minutes and then take them out. Once it is cool enough to handle peel the skin off the tomatoes and roughly chop them.
3. Puree the chopped tomatoes into a blender. Don't puree them too finely.
4. Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the chopped onion and garlic and sauté on a medium flame for 4-5 minutes.
5. When the onion start turning translucent, add the chopped capsicum and cook it covered on a medium flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the fresh tomato puree and salt and cook it for 15 minutes. Stir in between. The water content of the sauce will reduce by now.
6. Now add tomato ketchup, Italian seasoning mix and sugar. Stir well and cook on a medium flame for another7 to 10 minute. The pizza sauce should be thick by now and should coat the back of your spoon.
7. Take it off heat and let it cool completely. Once cooled you can store it in a glass jar and refrigerate it for later use. You can also use it immediately after cooling over pizza base.
Notes:
1. I like to use tomato ketchup to the sauce as it imparts a perfect colour and flavour to the final sauce.
2. If you have fresh basil leaves, use 3-4 tbsp of finely chopped basil leaves to the sauce.
3. You can fresh the sauce in large ice-cube tray and then transfers the frozen cubes into zip lock pouches and use as needed. It will keep well for over a month.
4. This sauce can also be used with pasta like macaroni, fusilli and penne.
This Homemade Pizza Sauce is my entry for BM 86 Week 3 Day #2 under the theme 'Italian Sauces You Should Master'. For Day #1 under the theme I had posted Basil Walnut Pesto.
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