Easy Pizza Sauce Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is pizza sauce made of? ›

Mix together water, tomato paste, and olive oil in a large bowl or jar. Add garlic, oregano, basil, rosemary, salt, and pepper; mix well. Let sauce stand for several hours to let flavors blend. No cooking is necessary; just spread on dough.

If you'd like a thicker sauce, strain the tomatoes from their juices before blending. This isn't just for convenience — a no-cook sauce will actually taste better on your pizza, giving you that fresh, zippy tomato flavor, even after it has been baked in a hot oven.

The Oil. While not all pizza dough recipes call for oil, Baldwin is a fan. "Don't be afraid to go heavy with olive oil at every step of making your pizza," she says. "It will help crisp up your crust and make it taste great."

In general, a classic tomato sauce is what you want for a standard cheese or margherita pizza. But if you're looking for something more herby, set your sights on a pesto. For something richer, try a white sauce or a vodka sauce.

Bring the sauce to a boil, and then cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Lightly flour a rolling pin, and the surface on which you are opening the dough. Use the rolling pin to stretch the dough out to desired shape. * Bake pizza at 350 degrees; usually cooks in about 20 minutes.

Because pasta sauce is not twice-cooked, making it often involves simmering the tomatoes with onions, garlic, and herbs before combining them with the pasta of choice. Pizza sauce, however, frequently uses uncooked crushed tomatoes, to make a sauce that is brighter and easier to spread across the dough.

San Marzano Tomatoes

Pizza fans, top chefs, and Italian cooks praise these tomatoes as the gold standard for taste. If you want a genuinely Italian flavor experience, you'll want to use San Marzano tomatoes when making your pizza sauce.

The Best Tomatoes for Pizza Sauce

For the classic Margherita and Marinara pizzas, the standard in Naples is San Marzano canned tomatoes. They are oblong, bright, red tomatoes that grow in a specific area not too far from Salerno (about one hour south of Naples).

The key to consistently turning out authentic pizzas comes down to using quality mozzarella cheese because no other ingredient holds a pizza together quite like it. Mozzarella is sometimes referred to as the glue that holds the pizza together, providing the stretchy quality that we all enjoy while having a pizza.

What is the number one ingredient on pizza? ›

1. Pepperoni. This may not come as a surprise, but pepperoni is by far the most popular pizza topping in the United States. It's added to 36% of all pies, and Americans consume more than 250 MILLION pounds of pepperoni annually.

Italian Seasoning

Italian seasoning combines herbs like basil, thyme, chili flakes, garlic powder, rosemary, parsley and oregano. Some blends also incorporate dried sage or fennel seeds. Italian seasoning adds extra flavor to traditional-style pizza.

Glutamate: an amino acid (one of the building blocks of DNA) is found in every pizza ingredient and is a critical component in giving pizza its flavor.