

YOU choose what ingredients go in and what stays out. Cooking pizza from scratch is better for you than frozen pizzas.If you have extra sauce, you can freeze the extra sauce (see more on that below), or dip your pizza crust into (like a marinara sauce). As is, this recipe will make enough sauce for a heavily sauced 10" pizza, or thinner sauce on 2 10" pizzas. This pizza sauce recipe is easily doubled or tripled. Making Double or Triple batch of pizza sauce from scratch? In my opinion, when you start with tomato paste, it's already so sweet that there's no reason to use any added sugar. Some pizza sauce recipes out there on the internet use sugar to sweeten it up. Many have added sugars that really aren't necessary to make a tasty sauce. I'm definitely not a fan of soggy pizza!!!! Also, pay attention to the ingredients in the spaghetti sauce you're using. If you put watery sauce on your pizza, the crust WILL get soggy. If you're in a pinch you could substitute spaghetti sauce on your pizza, but I'd recommend boiling the sauce for a while to get it a little thicker. Spaghetti sauce is usually thinner and often has cooked onions in it. What's the difference between pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce? We get ours at Costco, but it's available here on Amazon if you'd rather buy it there. It's organic and there's only one ingredient: "organic tomatoes". But I would recommend you cook them down a bit. If you only have tomato sauce or diced tomatoes, you could use those. You can water it down a bit if you want, but for a good pizza sauce, it's great thick. Which means no preservatives, or added sugars and salts. Tomato paste (typically) only has one ingredient: tomatoes.It creates an incredibly rich tomato flavor.We use tomato paste in this pizza sauce recipe (and in most tomato recipes) for a few reasons. Tomato paste is just tomatoes pureed and cooked down. White vinegar - You can also use apple cider vinegar.Olive oil - Use good quality olive oil like this kind.Garlic powder - Granulated garlic is another name for this.Dried oregano and dried thyme - Can also substitute Italian seasoning for these two.Salt - We love this kind because it's not stripped of nutrients.Tomato paste - Oorganic if possible, with only one ingredient - like this kind.Ingredients used in this tomato paste pizza sauce recipe Pizza cookbook - For inspiration if you need some.Pizza cutter like the pros - I've always wanted one of these.A pizza peel - For sliding pizza into the oven and taking it out.Mason jars - This size is great for storing your pizza sauce.Pizza doesn't quite feel like pizza if there's no red sauce (or if the sauce is thin and runny).agreed? Tools to make pizza sauce from tomato paste Why? Because the sauce is such an important part of the pizza. So it HAS to be good.Īnytime we get pizza at a restaurant (or delivery), we ask for extra sauce. The crust is extremely important in pizza.

The best homemade pizza has the best homemade pizza sauce The crust might change, but the sauce stays the same. The crust has changed through the years.wheat crust, white wheat crust, sourdough crust, cauliflower crust, coconut flour pizza crust, and even almond flour crust. Over the last ten years of our marriage, we've had pizza every Friday night *almost* every week. The flavor combinations are endless and it always seems to hit the spot. I mean, who doesn't? There's something about how it all comes together with the crust, the sauce, and the toppings.
