Friday 10 May 2013

Home Made Pizza / Pasta Sauce

This homemade pizza sauce is thick and spicy with delicious flavor of its own. I have prepared this many times and its always a hit.
This sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for upto a week. 


Yield : For 2 to 3 large pizza approximately


Ingredients :

Onion -  ½ of 1 medium size onion ( finely chopped )
Garlic clove - 4 cloves, minced
Tomatoes - 3  (blanched, peeled and pureed)
Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp
Tomato Paste - 3 tbsp(optional)
Dried oregano - 2 to 3 tsp
Salt - to taste
Sugar - 1
½  tsp (To balance the sourness of the tomato)
Black pepper -  ½ tsp
Bay leaf - 1
Capsicum - 2 tbsp (finely chopped)(optional)
Red chilli flakes - Add according to your spice level
Olive Oil - 2 tbsp





Directions


Heat oil in a pan  and add  onion and garlic;  saute until soft and transparent.

Add pureed tomato, tomato sauce and tomato paste and stir until smooth; add little water

Add remaining ingredients and allow to boil and simmer till become thick sauce in consistency.


Once it is done, remove from the stove and  discard the bay  leaf .

Your Homemade Pizza / Pasta sauce is ready to use.


Note:

You can adjust salt , sugar and spice level according to your taste.


Sending this recipe to Sowmya's page and Gayathri's page for the event  for Walk Through Memory Lane.

9 comments:

  1. Very tempting sauce and right post for all the piza and pasta lovers.

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  2. Very yummy pizza sauce and perfectly made...

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  3. Definitely home made sauce is so much better, tastier and healthier. Since it can be kept in the fridge for two weeks, there's probably other recipes we can use the sauce for. Yum and love it.

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  4. Hi poornima,thx u very much for visiting my space n valuable comments...u have a nice coleection of recipes...

    I always prefer homemade preparation,u made it very well dear!!

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  5. very aromatic and very very comforting.. love this delicious sauce.. Thanks for sending this yummy recipe to my event.. Looking for more yummy recipes...

    Sowmya
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