Pizza Sauce Recipes, Tips & Quick questions

tulip12

Its very easy and cheap to make your own pizza sauce.
I just fry chopped onion with some garlic until soft, add chopped tomatoes and herbs like Origano etc, I sometimes add a little sugar too. Cook through for a while then blitz with a electric blender until it becomes the consistency you like. Season with salt and pepper.
Any extra can be frozen in small quantities until needed again HTH

HowlinWolf

I do a similar recipe to Tulip 12, 1 diced onion, 2 cloves chopped garlic, 1 grated carrot and sometimes also a grated courgette or a little finely diced celery. A small palm-full of oregano and a little dried basil. All this gets softened gently in olive oil, then add a tablespoon of tomato puree, cook gently for another minute or two then add a tin/box of chopped tomatoes. Bring to the boil and then simmer to reduce. Sometimes I add a little sugar and a little balsamic vinegar to bring out the tomato flavour but it's not essential. I don't bother to blend as this comes out fairly fine anyway. My 4 year old son and my husband both love this. For adults you can add a teaspoon of chilli flakes to the sauce too. Like Tulip I also freeze in mini pizza size portions for the young man.

Penelope_Penguin

welsh_mummy wrote: »

does anyone have a recipe to make my own sauce.

Lots of recipes in this thread I'll merge this later to keep ideas together.

midnightraven3

tried lots of recipes for pizza sauce
we are a familt of pizza lovers
tried slow roasted tomato ones, quick ones etc

recently made this one from jamie and it is very good

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegeterian-recipes/the-quickest-tomato-sauce

[Deleted User]

Instead of traditional tomato based sauce try using ricotta cheese for the base sauce instead. Just spoon it out and smear it around and then add your toppings.

wherediditallgothen

Does anyone have any ideas about making your own pizza bases? Or are shop bought ones just as good?

Money_maker

Shop bought are okay but wont ever buy them again since making my own in my breadmaker.

mummyjane

we have just started making our own and I doubt we'll ever buy them in again, so much cheaper to make and they are absolutely delicious!

Pink_Giraffe

I use normal bread dough for making pizza bases, there is usually some left over for dough balls from 500g of flour recipe. I've never used a shop bought base so can't compare! I used to make pizza sauce from tinned tomatoes etc, but I have started using a mix of tomato puree, a bit of tomato ketchup and herbs as it works out cheaper (this surprised me a lot!!)

welsh_mummy

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, will definately be trying them out. Will also try making pizza dough in the breadmaker as well - if all goes well will be making in bulk to save time and money

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