Homemade Pizza Sauce
This easy to make pizza sauce is a great as is or as a base to build on and get creative! With just simple ingredient this is a great way to use the abundant garden tomato harvest, whether it's from your garden, the farmer's market or tomatoes from your local grocer. We make a lot of homemade pizza and go through dozens of jars each year. This simple to make sauce is our base whether we are making a cheese pizza, sausage and onion, spinach and tomato, veggie-lover's pizza or meat lover's pizza. You can jazz it up with diced onions and peppers, hot peppers if you like a spicy pizza sauce or just make it as is. We can it in half pint jars as, for us, that is the perfect amount for a 16 inch pizza.
Prep Time 1 hour hr
Cook Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins
Total Time 2 hours hrs 20 minutes mins
Course Soups and Sauces
Cuisine Italian
1 Large Pot
1 set measuring cups and spoons
1 large spoon
1 sharp knife
1 food processor or blender
1 Cutting Board optional
1 bowl optional for tomato scraps
- 10 cups tomato puree
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp dried basil
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 4 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
Cooking Instructions
Pour tomato puree into your large pot
Bring your tomato puree to a boil, reduce heat to medium stirring occasionally cook for 10 minutes
Add the basil, oregano, garlic, onion, salt and pepper, stirring until thoroughly incorporated
Simmer on low for about 1 hour or until your sauce reaches the desired consistency (I like to get mine to the consistency of a marinara sauce)
At this point you can use immediately, freeze or can your sauce. It will last up to a week in the refrigerator, 6 months to a year frozen or 1-3+ years canned and stored properly
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