Homemade Pizza Sauce
As the oldest of eight children, I was often in the kitchen prepping dinner alongside my mom. Pizza was one of our most-often-made meals to feed the crowd, and it was always homemade. In fact, thinking about it, I’m fairly sure I was a teenager before I had take-out pizza–at a friend’s house during a sleepover. {ducks head} What can I say? I was raised in the woods.
Anyway, during my growing up years, at pizza-prep time, it was usually my job to whip up the pizza sauce and shred the cheese while my mom mixed a batch of dough. I didn’t even know there was such thing as jarred pizza sauce until I was in college and doing my own grocery shopping. See? I told you I was sheltered.
Now days as a busy mom myself, pizza is a favorite meal for my own family, and while I do admit to the occasional fall-back on carryout pizza and pre-made dough, homemade pizza sauce is so easy to make it’s definitely worth keeping tucked away in the freezer for those homemade pizza nights, as a marinara dipping sauce for breadsticks, or one of the following recipes:
- Cheesy Veggie Pizza Calzones
- Cheesy Canadian Bacon Pizza
- Quinoa Pizza Bites
- Pizza in a Sleeping Bag
- Mini French Bread Pizzas
- Whole Wheat Herbed Pizza Dough
- GFDF Zesty Pizza Rolls
- Stuffed Portabella Pizzas
- Mini Pizza Meatloaves or Pizza Meatloaf
- Pizza Spirals
- Homemade Pizza Bites
- Toddler-ific Pizza Snack Bites or Toddler Pizza Croissants
- Pita Pizzas
- Pizza Casserole
- Pizza Soup with Croutons
Homemade Pizza Sauce
Author/Source:
Pam @ Onceamonthmom.com
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 0.5 teaspoon garlic powder
- 0.25 teaspoon oregano
- 0.25 teaspoon basil
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.25 teaspoon pepper
- dash of red pepper flakes (optional)
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and spread on pizza crust or heat and use as a marinara dipping sauce.
Freezing Directions:
Place in freezer container or bag and freeze. Thaw to serve.
Servings: 1 cup sauce
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Have you ever canned this recipe?
I haven’t personally, but I have to admit I don’t know a lot about canning and typically stick to freezing. Something I want to learn more about though! Maybe someone else can weigh in?
Yes, you can can this sauce. The acidity in the tomaotoes is high enought that you can just do the water bath and you don’t have to use a pressure cooker. I can my spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce two or three times a year to last us for a while. It make for a great last minute meal with minimal wait time.
I’m new to the whole OAM cooking, but cant wait to get started. Im also new to the canning world. I have big plans to can a lot from our garden this summer and fall, but dont know a single thing about it. can someone help me out? or point me to a website or other person that could help me? Thanks in advance.
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I like my sauce a little thicker and use tomato puree instead of tomato sauce.
My pizza sauce that had been frozen separated when was defrosted. I could not get it to look like it did when originally made. Is this typical? Is there something I should be doing?
I haven’t had that happen with this particular recipe, but I do know sometimes things that have been frozen tend to separate. Was there a lot of excess water after you thawed it? Maybe try draining that off and then mixing the sauce well.
OH this is PERFECT. I was just complaining to my husband that there must be a better way for pizza sauce – we eat homemade pizza almost once a week. It is great to see how simple it is!! Thanks for posting this!
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Just made this with some leftover tomato sauce I had in the fridge from a few nights ago. Gave it a quick taste before freezing it, and it’s perfect! Thanks so much!