easy pizza sauce recipe | homemade pizza sauce recipe
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 1 bowl
- Category: sauce
- Cuisine: international
Ingredients
- 6 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
- firstly, 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.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.