Basic Pizza Sauce Recipe

One of the Easiest Recipes you’ll ever make!

Pizza sauce is one of the easiest recipes you can make on your own, especially if you’re already making the effort to make your own homemade pizza from scratch. This is literally the fastest part of the pizza making process.  It’s so easy that if you didn’t even have fresh garlic on hand you could just substitute it for some granulated or powdered garlic, mix the rest of the ingredients together with no cooking involved and voila….you’ve made your pizza sauce in about 5 minutes.

Basic Pizza Sauce in a bowl with ingredients

The benefit of making this instead of store-bought is you’re cutting down on additives and extra sodium, so it’s a win win! Just make sure your tomato based ingredients aren’t full of extra sodium and unrecognizable ingredients, for instance, tomato paste ingredients should have only 1 ingredient, tomatoes!

Basic Pizza Sauce with pizza dough and dough sauced

If you’re like us and love the taste and smell of fresh garlic, and can add just 5 minutes to your cooking time, but hate the hassle of mincing garlic, try the Garlic Twist! It’s our new trick to speedy minced garlic.  It will change your cooking experience, trust me! You can see our little spiel on it here. This is not just a shameless plug, this is really one of our favorite kitchen gadgets these days that we can not live without. We went years (no joke) without using fresh garlic for many recipes and just used the bottled minced garlic because it was a time saver, but as you might notice if you use the bottled stuff, you’re missing that amazing warm garlic smell that entices everyone during cooking. We finally got fresh garlic back into our cooking after getting this smart little gadget.

The Sauce…

This recipe makes 2 cups of sauce so depending on your pizza size it should be enough for at least 4 large pizzas. We use about 1/2 cup for each large sheet pan pizza.  What you don’t use immediately for the current pizza(s) you can freeze for future use.

Basic Pizza Sauce from top view

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Basic Pizza Sauce

Basic Pizza Sauce Recipe

Katia
This is a basic pizza sauce recipe that you could make even simpler if you don't have fresh garlic. You could simply mix all the ingredients together, no cooking and you're done! I personally love fresh garlic in it.
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 4 minutes
Total Time 9 minutes
Course Condiment, Sauce
Cuisine American, Pizza
Servings 8
Calories 43 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 15 oz can Organic Tomato Sauce
  • 6 oz Organic Tomato Paste
  • 1/2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • 2 tsp Italian Seasoning
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • dash of sea salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Heat Olive Oil on medium heat in a medium saucepan, then once warm add minced garlic.
  • Cook garlic about 2 minutes till fragrant and just turning golden
  • Immediately add tomato sauce and tomato paste to cool down garlic
  • Lastly add rest of seasonings, stir and done.

Notes

This recipe makes about 2 cups of pizza sauce. Depending on your sauce amount preference this sauce will cover 4 large sheet pan pizzas. We use about 1/2 cup per sheet pan pizza and a bit less for smaller round thin crust pizzas.

Nutrition Disclaimer:

The nutritional information provided is only an estimate based on a third party nutritional plugin. Different online calculators may give different results depending on their own sources. The estimates may also change based on the ingredients you use. If you have dietary restrictions and need to accurately calculate the nutrition of this recipe, Whole Made Living recommends consulting a professional nutritionist.

Nutrition

Serving: 0.25cupCalories: 43kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 437mgPotassium: 405mgFiber: 2gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 706IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 2mg
Keyword Pizza, sauce, tomatoes
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Comments

  • 5 stars
    Very good recipe -makes tons even though I only made half! After we finish using -We will definitely make this recipe again! Delish!!

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