Tomato pizza sauce is one of the key ingredients in a pizza preparation that adds the right flavor and look to the pizza. It makes for a soft pizza base and also adds nutrient-value to the dish. A nicely canned San Marzano tomato pack is the ideal pick to make a delicious tomato base of your pizza. Preparing tomato pizza sauce is very simple and does not take much time either.
Ingredients
The following are the key ingredients for making tomato pizza sauce:
• 400g can tomatoes-all peeled
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• A pinch of white sugar
• Dried oregano-1 teaspoon
• Extra virgin olive oit-1 table spoon
• Finely chopped small brown onion-1piece
Procedure
The following gives a step by step description about the method of preparing tomato pizza sauce:
Step1
Oil has to be heated on a frying pan (non sticky in nature) over medium heat.
Step2
Add onion and garlic to the oil that is being heated.
Step3
The mixture of oil, garlic and onion has to be cooked for atleast 5minutes.
Step4
Post heating session, the mixture has to be combined with tomatoes, sugar, a pinch of salt and pepper. The mixture has to be cooked well and has to be stirred in order to break the tomatoes. Continue the process for about 7minutes after which the mixture or the sauce will get boiled.
Step5
Once the sauce reaches the boil, the heating temperature has to be brought down to medium-low.
Step6
After this, simmer the sauce for not more than 10minutes. By this time the sauce should become thick and drippy. Put the sauce inside a food processor and wait for it to get smooth. Once the sauce becomes thick and smooth, stir some oregano to add taste and spice.
It can be seen that preparing tomato pizza sauce is quite a cakewalk and it can be comfortably prepared at home. The best part is the ingredients are all easily accessible and can be fetched from any nearby market. So, do not hesitate to prepare this sauce at home. It hardly consumes time or effort. Just make sure that the mixture is made properly and the heating should be adequate, else the taste of the sauce may suffer which in turn would affect your pizza. Also you need to remember that you should wait till the tomato sauce thickens, so it needs to cool down a bit first before it is served. This adds a lot of taste to your pizza.