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How To Make Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce

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How To Make Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce
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Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce Recipe. Ideal for pizza toppings or for pasta dishes, this classic tomato sauce is quick and easy to make and simply delicious. Relish our Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce recipe. Enlarge Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce Recipe. Ideal for pizza toppings or for pasta dishes, this classic tomato sauce is quick and easy to make and simply delicious. Relish our Basic Tomato Pizza Sauce recipe.
Serves:
makes 450g of sauce
Preparation Time:
20 minutes
Cooking Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
40 minutes
Oven Temperature:
225° c  -  440° f

Step 1: You will need

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 400 g of tinned plum tomatoes
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp basil, chopped
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tbsp tomato puree
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 wooden spoon

Step 2: Fry the onions

Place the saucepan on a medium heat, add the olive oil and butter and allow it to melt. Now add the chopped onions and garlic and stir. Let it cook down for 3-4 minutes until the onions are soft and transparent.

Step 3: Add rest of ingredients

To the saucepan, add the tomatoes, oregano, basil and tomato puree. Season with a little salt and pepper and stir well. Bring the sauce to a boil and turn the heat down to a simmer. Allow it to cook for 20 minutes.

Step 4: Cool and use

For pizzas, allow the sauce to cool before using. If you're making it to accompany a pasta dish then it can be eaten straight away. This sauce can be stored in a container for a week in the fridge.
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Tips & Comments
  1. SlowRocket

    I don't know why all you psuedo Italians get so precious about your sauce. If a sauce tastes great then it is great and this sauce tastes great!

  2. kkkko

    Or-i-gono? It's O-reg-ano! -.-

  3. incubuzz1978

    every dead italian chef would be turning in his grave watching this crap... there is nothing basic or italian.. even no relation to pizza at all... total YUKK!!!

  4. amansethi

    total yukk..guys go watch "vahchef pizza sauce" on youtube..blieve me u will thank me

  6. CuocoItaliano

    This recipe is absolutely un-Italian. Butter is forbidden for the so called "fresh tomato" sauces, the ones used for the pizza. Origano isn't a base ingredient for these kind of sauce. Moreover, Origano should be added at the end of the cooking time, otherwise it delivers untasty flavours,... On the Pizza, Neapolitan, just use a kind of tomato called "San Marzano" without pre-cooking. Less is more!

  7. sombody

    add some brown sugar you'll love it even more

  8. RowdyPete

    I always use this recipe now, although I add a little balsamic vinegar to the garlic and onoins in the pan and sometimes use liquidised fresh tomatoes if I have some in the fridge that are starting to go over. Great Recipe thanks!