Pizza Sauce Recipe

The best homemade Pizza Sauce recipe! Once you try this super simple, perfectly flavorful recipe you’ll never look back!

 

Pizza Sauce

Servings: 12

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 2 minutes

Total Time 7 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 3 Tbsp tomato paste
• 1 (15 oz) can crushed tomatoes
• 2 Tbsp chopped fresh basil (or 1 tsp dried)
• 1 1/2 tsp dried oregano (or 1 1/2 Tbsp chopped fresh)
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
2. Add garlic and saute 10 seconds, then add tomato paste and stir garlic in.
3. Cook and stir for 1 minute, spreading paste along bottom of pan and stirring while cooking.
4. Remove from heat, stir in crushed tomatoes, oregano, fresh basil and season with salt and pepper to taste (if using as a dip then heat sauce through over medium-low heat).
5. Spread over pizza dough or store in the fridge up to 5 days or freeze up to 3 months.

Recipe Notes

• Not every can of crushed tomatoes and paste will taste the same, some may be more acidic than others. To balance this out you can add a pinch or two of sugar as needed.
• For a little kick to the sauce add a few pinches of red pepper flakes.
• If you love herby flavors you can also add in other herbs to taste such as thyme, rosemary, marjoram or fennel seed.
• Pair this sauce with my pizza dough recipe for a perfect homemade pizza!