Kezza's Chunky Pizza Sauce

"My boyfriend and I had the most fantastic pizza in Italy during our travels, even the takeaway stuff is fantastic. Through trial and error (and expanding waistlines) we think that I've found a good approximation of a home-made pizza sauce we had in Cassino when we went down there for the 60th commemorations last year."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
2 cups
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan, on medium heat.
  • Saute the onions and garlic until translucent, but do not allow to burn or brown.
  • Add the herbs and saute for 1 minute.
  • Add the tomatoes and tomato paste (and salt & pepper to taste) and simmer for 60 minutes on low heat (I use 2/6) until reduced to a thick sauce. I taste this every 10 minutes and sometimes add pepper if required.
  • Cool, and use on your favourite pizza bases. Can be used on 4 x medium bases (if you like a lot of sauce), or 6 bases if you like a thinner covering. You can also puree this with a Bamix if chunky sauce isn't your thing (plus, it goes further if you puree it).

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Reviews

  1. This is a really easy recipe to make a divine sauce. I used it to make recipe #106952 and recipe #309820. The herbs are just perfect and I used my immersion blender to make it just slightly less chunky. Viva los Jefes!
     
  2. This is the only pizza sauce I make. I double the batch & freeze in individual containers. I also add a small amount of sugar. It makes a big difference in the flavor. A few red pepper flakes for a little bite. I make a Chicago style pizza with the meat on the bottom, then the cheese with the sauce on top. Made in a pre-heated iron skillet. The crust is so crispy! This is the perfect sauce !
     
  3. Simply deliciousio! Made as posted and left it chunky-saved me some dishes. Froze the other half for another time, so that is something I like b/c we cannot use an entire boughten container's worth. Thanks for sharing a keeper. Made for ZWT4 the Flying Dutchess.
     
  4. This made such good pizza sauce! It was so fresh-tasting, and was super-simple to throw together. I was outvoted two to one for keeping the sauce chunky, so I roughly pureed it with my immersion blender. This made for some great Italian bread pizzas (I think DH ate an entire half loaf all by himself!). I think this is now my go-to pizza sauce recipe, thanks for posting! Made for ZWT4
     
  5. I made this for *Zaar World Tour III* - The flavour was very good, I followed the recipe as written and didn't change a thing. I used it under for a Marinara Pizza, the flavours were so delicious together. Thank you LittleKiwiChook
     
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