My pizza sauce recipe with a pizza dough bonus:
Do not be intimidated by the long ingredients list. This is so good that a pizza restaurant could make big money because of its taste:
You will need:
1 large onion, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
6 oz can tomato paste
28 oz can crushed tomato sauce
1/4 cup Merlot wine
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp marjoram
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp oregano
1-1/2 tsp basil
1/4 tsp sage
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 very small pinch of cinnamon
1 TBS Concord grape jelly
1 carrot, peeled
White sugar to taste
Olive oil for cooking garlic and onions
Method:
1. Chop the carrot and put in with half of the tomato sauce, in a food processor or blender, and puree until smooth.
2. Mince onion and cook in olive oil until golden brown in a sauce pan. Do this on a low enough heat to keep this browning process under control to keep from burning. Add minced garlic and cook briefly before adding the other half of the tomato sauce. The tomato sauce can be used to stop the browning process of the onion at the perfect stage of browning. Note: never cook garlic until it turns brown. This causes the garlic to get bitter.
3. Add the tomato paste, the rest of the tomato sauce from the food processor, and all of the ingredients. Simmer on low, stirring `every ten minutes. Be careful not to cause the sauce to splatter due to excessive heat. When sauce is thick, add sugar to taste. Let cool, then put in a storage container for the refrigerator. This sauce can be stored in the freezer for six months.
Pizza Dough from a Bread Maker:
You will need:
3 cups flour
1-1/4 cups water
2 tsp salt
2 TBS butter
2 tsp bread machine yeast
I’m saving that for my Italian hubby - his family makes gallons of tomato sauce from their tomatoes every year; but we’ve never done a small stove-top recipe from scratch, and have never made our own pizza.
Thanks!
We make our own pizza & your sauce sounds wonderful. I also like a sweeter sauce......definitely will try.