This pizza sauce is a labor of love, a huge part of that labor is that it’s so easy! This is not your fancy-schmancy simmered-from-tomatoes-plucked-from-your-garden pizza sauce. This is pizza sauce made from ingredients in your pantry that also happens to taste AMAZING and comes together in a matter of minutes!
I spent the early years of my marriage trying to perfect homemade pizza because we were v. poor and we also loved pizza. No matter what I did, it always came out a little doughy and underdone with a weird aftertaste and it would take me straight back to horrible flashbacks of homemade pizza made from a boxed mix when I was a kid. I guess I can get how people hate pizza, especially homemade pizza, if that’s all they’ve ever known.
After a LOT of experimentation, I finally got it right. The dough was a huge part of it, but the other huge thing was the sauce. (Here is a great tutorial on how to make great pizza at home in your oven without any special equipment, but if you’re feeling wild, try grilling it!)
You’re going to need a can of tomato paste, onion powder, red pepper flakes, some of our homemade garlic bread seasoning, a little sugar, and some water.
Empty tomato paste into a bowl (a decent-sized cereal bowl will do the trick) and add the dry ingredients.
Fill the can with warm water, add to the bowl,
and whisk it all together! Allow to stand until ready to use.
This overs two average-sized pizza, freezes extremely well, and gets along great with children.
Pizza Sauce
This easy pizza sauce is so delicious and comes together in just a few minutes from pantry staples!
Ingredients
- 1 6- ounce can tomato paste
- 6 ounces water just use the empty tomato paste can
- 3 tablespoons garlic bread seasoning
- 1/2-1 tablespoon sugar start with 1 1/2 teaspoons and adjust sweetness from there
- 3/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Empty tomato paste into a bowl and add water a few tablespoons at a time, stirring constantly until combined. Add remaining ingredients, stir to combine, and allow to stand until ready to use. Covers two average-sized pizza; freezes extremely well.
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Questions & Reviews
Delicious!!! My husband is very picky about his sauce and he LOVED this!!
I’m so glad I found this recipe! I left it on low while pizza bites were in the oven…..<3 yum.
how about a white garlic sauce next???
Made your sauce this weekend and everybody LOVED it!! However I was disapointed when I got the leftovers out of the fridge this afternoon to use as a dipping sauce… it was a globby mess 🙁
Made this tonight for the Family. Everyone loved it!!!
Thanks for the wonderful recipes!!
Perfect. Just printed. Can’t wait to try this with my new delicious pizza crust by my favorite food bloggers!
This is my go to pizza sauce recipe now. It is the perfect consistency and has wonderful flavor. I use my tomato powder in place of the tomato paste and it works wonderfully. I left link to this recipe on a post I just did on how to use tomato powder in your favorite recipes. http://www.thrivequickdish.com/cook/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-powder/
Thanks!
I needed to make a pizza and I just realized that I didn’t have any sauce!! ahhhh!!! I decided to jump on here to see if by any chance you would have a recipe and you did!!! You guys have come through for me again!! Thanks!
This was so yummy and my family loved it! I also liked the fact that it was easy, didn’t have to let it cook for 45 minutes (last my old pizza sauce recipe) and it wasn’t chunky!
Easy and yummy. Thanks so much!