Recipe: Perfect Pizza and Pasta Sauce

Pizza and Pasta Sauce. Pizza sauce is an uncooked tomato sauce, while pasta sauce is cooked. That may not seem like a big deal, but it can make all the difference. The best pizza sauce is simply puréed tomatoes that are seasoned simply with salt and pepper and maybe a couple of extras like garlic, oregano, or a splash.

I would however only use this for pizza, not on pasta. I made this ultra quick and easy by doing an uncooked version. He likes his pizza saucy and flavorful and that particular pie just didn't cut it. You can cook Pizza and Pasta Sauce using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pizza and Pasta Sauce

1. Prepare 5-6 of hybrid tomatoes.
2. Prepare 1-2 of onions.
3. Prepare 15-16 of garlic cloves.
4. Prepare to taste of salt.
5. It's 2-3 tsp of kashmiri red chilli powder(for colour).
6. Prepare 2-3 tsp of oregano seasoning.
7. It's 1/2 tbsp of red chilli flakes.
8. It's 2-3 tbsp of olive oil.
9. Prepare 1-2 tsp of black pepper powder.
10. Prepare 1-2 tsp of basil(optional).

Moral of the story: there's no weak sauce allowed in our household. To make this homemade pizza sauce from scratch you literally crack open two cans, add some seasonings, stir and you're set to go. Pizza sauce and pasta sauces are different things for a reason, and not just because the food companies are trying to scam you into buying more sauce than you need. Armed with this crucial knowledge, I urge you to go forth and make a pizza the whole world can be proud of.

Pizza and Pasta Sauce instructions

1. Take a sauce pan or wok. Add 2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil. Put it on lowest heat. add 1/2 tbsp chilli flakes. roast it for few seconds. add 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp basil(optional). Roast it..
2. Add 15-16 garlic cloves as it is. add diced onion. add 1 tsp black pepper powder.add kashmiri red chilli powder. cook onion for few seconds. Remove head of tomatoes, cut them into half. Put them in pan so that cut portion of tomatoes touches pan surface.add some salt..
3. Let it cook on lowest heat. cook it until tomatoes are almost mashed. keep stiring in between. add some sugar. add some ketchup. mix it well..
4. Once texture is saucy and mashy..let it cool. put the sauce in blender and blend it. add some oregano seasoning and mix well. adjust taste of salt according to your taste. Sauce is ready. Use it as pizza sauce or pasta sauce..

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