Homemade Pizza Sauce

This Homemade Pizza Sauce is great to have around when the mood for pizza strikes and you can make some pizza at home!

Homemade Pizza Sauce

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve needed pizza sauce at home (for making pizza and other things), and I have no pizza sauce in the pantry. I’m so happy to have this homemade pizza sauce recipe around because it’s easy to make, and it’s made up of simple ingredients that you very likely have on hand.

🛒Ingredients needed:

• onion
• garlic
• white wine
• tomato paste
• dried oregano
• freshly ground black pepper
• canned crushed tomatoes
• fresh basil
• balsamic vinegar

✏️How to make Homemade Pizza Sauce:

*The complete, printable recipe with all ingredients and instructions is at the end of this post.

1. Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Coat the pan with cooking spray. Add the onion to the pan; sauté for 3 minutes or until tender. Add the garlic to the pan; sauté for 30 seconds. Stir in the wine; cook for 30 seconds.
2. Add the tomato paste, oregano, pepper, and tomatoes. Reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes or until thick.
3. Remove the sauce from heat; stir in the basil and vinegar. Cool.

➡️Recipe Tips and Substitutions:

• This sauce is a chunky tomato sauce. If you prefer a smoother pizza sauce, toss it in a food processor or blender with about 1 tablespoon water and blend until smooth.
• There is 1/4 cup of white wine in the recipe. You can use red wine if you prefer. Or you can leave the wine out entirely if you do not cook with alcohol.
• You can use diced tomatoes in place of crushed tomatoes, but you’ll want to give them in a whirl in the blender or food processor first.
• 1 teaspoon of dried basil may be substituted for the fresh basil in the recipe.

✔️What to do with Homemade Pizza Sauce

• Use it as the base sauce for traditional pizza.
• Top French bread or English muffins to make alternative pizzas.
• Use it as a dipping sauce for appetizers like my Pizza Pinwheels.
• Use for making calzones and as a dipping sauce for the calzones.

★How to Store:

Homemade pizza sauce will keep in the refrigerator for up to one week. It can be stored in the freezer for up to one month.

❤️Why I love this recipe:

1. It’s so nice to have pizza sauce on hand for so many things. 
2. It tastes better than store-bought.
3. There are no preservatives, less sodium and no sugar added in my homemade pizza sauce recipe.

Favorite Sauce Recipes:

• Chimichurri Sauce
• Classic Pesto Sauce
• Best Alfredo Sauce
• Mom’s Spaghetti Sauce
• Enchilada Sauce

5 from 1 vote

Homemade Pizza Sauce

By RecipeGirl.com (adapted from Cooking Light)

This sauce is great to have around when the mood for pizza strikes.

Prep: 15 minutes mins

Cook: 25 minutes mins

Total: 40 minutes mins

Servings: 6 servings (1½ cups - enough for 12-inch pizza)

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Ingredients

• ▢ ¼ cup finely chopped onion
• ▢ 1 medium garlic clove, minced
• ▢ ¼ cup white wine
• ▢ 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• ▢ 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• ▢ ⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• ▢ One 14.5-ounce can crushed tomatoes, undrained
• ▢ 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
• ▢ 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar

Instructions 

• Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add onion to pan; sauté 3 minutes or until tender. Add garlic to pan; sauté 30 seconds. Stir in wine; cook 30 seconds.
• Add tomato paste, oregano, pepper, and tomatoes. Reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes or until thick.
• Remove sauce from heat; stir in basil and vinegar. Cool.

Notes

• This sauce is a chunky tomato sauce. If you prefer a smoother pizza sauce, toss it in a food processor or blender with about 1 tablespoon water and blend until smooth.
• This sauce can be prepared ahead of time- up to one day. It freezes well, too, for up to one month.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving (1/4 cup), Calories: 40kcal, Carbohydrates: 7g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 0.2g, Saturated Fat: 0.04g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.04g, Sodium: 134mg, Potassium: 280mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 4g, Vitamin A: 252IU, Vitamin C: 8mg, Calcium: 35mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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