We like pizza, but since we live in the middle of nowhere, not quite nowhere, but a good way from a pizza restaurant, we make pizza at home. I make it several times a month. Our favorites are pepperoni and Canadian bacon. But we experiment with other varieties as well.
I have made many pizza sauces over the years to use on our pizzas. I have bought several different kinds also. We like the store bought ones, but they are expensive and really add to the cost of the home made pizza. I have made my own using tomato sauce or puree and spices. I have also tried a few recipes. None of the home made ones were quite right. They were good but not great. I wanted something that tasted like restaurant pizza sauce.
A couple of months ago I found a book at the library called American Pie by Peter Reinhart. It was an interesting cookbook on nothing but pizza. I found a recipe in that cookbook for an all purpose pizza sauce. It looked really good, but it was a little different from other sauce recipes that I had seen. I decided to give it a try.
I am really glad I did because we loved this sauce. It was the best sauce we have had at home. It was better than any homemade or store bought sauce that I had tried so far. We now have a favorite pizza sauce. It was really easy to make. I made a batch of it and froze what we did not use. Now, I will have some ready to go anytime we want pizza for dinner.
If you like to make homemade pizza give this a try.
Homemade Pizza Sauce
(makes 6 cups)
- 1 can (28 ounces) tomato puree
- 1 3/4 cups water ( I think 1 1/2 cups is best)
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
Whisk all together starting with only 1 teaspoon salt. Taste and add more salt if needed. Store in the refrigerator for 1 week or freeze.
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I have the same problem. I’ll have to try this one.
Yummy! Thanks for sharing this,I’ll have to try it!
This sounds so good. Thanks for sharing! Could you also share your pizza crust recipe?
Thanks for the tip! We have 11 in our family and spend a FORTUNE on pizza sauce!
Here’s my tip for leftover sauce: I put it into ice cube trays and freeze. I pop the cubes into a freezer bag and take out one whenever I need one for a pizza bagel. You could use them as needed for any pizza and not have to deal with a big blob of sauce from the freezer.
Thanks for sharing. We make pizza every Friday and watch a movie with the kids. Next week I will make my own sauce, (I also found a recipe for dough on the Grocery Cart Recipe Swap)
thanks for the recipe! I still haven’t gotten brave enough for full on homemade pizza, because my attempts just haven’t been as good as Papa Murphy’s
But we do pizza melts, pizza grilled cheese, and other things that this will TOTALLY come in handy for!
That recipe is pretty similar to how I do mine, very nice!!
Thanks for sharing this one, too, Lynn. I’m printing it out
We’ve made homemade pizza a few times recently and love it, but my son complained that the sauce I made was too sweet. This one looks like a great one to try 
can regular vinegar be used or apple cider vinegar in replace of red whine, if thats all you got on hand
@shamael, I have never tried that. I am thinking the taste would be a little different, but it might be worth trying. You might want to make a small batch of this, like 1/4 of a recipe and see how it works.
Years ago I worked in a pizzeria that was the most popular and best in town. I know that one of the key ingredients to the pizza sauce and many other recipes was powdered chicken soup base. I wonder how that would work here?
I have never thought to add that, but I am sure it would add a lot of flavor. I am going to have to give it a try sometime.
Could you use tomato paste instead of tomato purée?
Tomato paste would be thicker and a richer stronger taste, but it might work.
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