Traditional Pizza Sauce

Start with good quality tomatoes!  Try some of the imported brands. San Marzano tomatoes are imported from the San Marzano region of Italy and are my favorite.

Open a can of tomatoes and taste it.  You may like the taste of one brand over another.  I have used all kinds of tomatoes for my sauce so they all work fine for pizza sauce.

Some pizza chefs say that combining the herbs with the tomatoes sauce without cooking it works fine for making a pizza sauce. I find that cooking the pizza sauce for a short while brings out more of the flavors of the herbs.

Pizza sauce ingredients

2 cloves fresh garlic
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon sugar (reduces acidity)
1-16 ounce can of tomato sauce
1/2 of a 6-ounce can of tomato paste
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt to taste

How To Make

Mince the 2 large cloves of fresh garlic 
Saute the garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil (until lightly brown) Add the tomato sauce and paste and all the ingredients. Stir and heat until the sauce comes to a boil and then put a lid on your pot and turn it off.  Let your pizza sauce cool and it is ready to use.

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Other herbs for pizza sauce

The traditional herbs for a pizza sauce are: Dried Basil, Dried or fresh garlic, Oregano, sugar, black pepper, and salt.  These are your main ingredients. 

You may like to add some other herbs such as crushed fennel seed, parsley, mint, cayenne pepper or dried onions. 

Experiment and create your own unique tasting pizza sauce

I have come up with some great pizza sauces by combining different herbs (a small amount at a time), and then tasting the sauce.