Basic homemade Pizza sauce
I think we all know that it is much easier, to just walk into a store and buy canned stuff. For example a pasta sauce or pizza sauce in a jar or whatever but in today’s world, most people are concerned about what they consume. So it makes perfect sense to cook your own stuff, even though home cooking involve a little effort.
Not too long ago, I published a healthy homemade pizza recipe and in that, I used my homemade pizza sauce. Which I promised to share the recipe,so lets just jump right in;
Ingredients:
5 Oval Tomatoes
1 Medium Size Onion
2 Garlic Cloves(chopped)
2 Tablespoons Sunflower Oil
1 teaspoon Grated Ginger
½ teaspoon Oregano
Salt/pepper to taste
A bowl of water filled with ice cubes
Procedure:
Start by filling a medium size pot with water and bring to a boil.
Cut a shallow X on top of each tomato, put 3 on them in the boiling water and blanch for 3–6 seconds, or until the tomato skin starts peeling .
Put the blanch tomatoes in cold water, filled with ice cubes to stop the cooking process and peel skin off.
When all tomatoes have been blanched and peeled, save one tomato aside for later and cut up the remaining 4 tomatoes into a blender, add one small Onion(chopped) and blend.
In a medium pot, on medium heat, add oil, chopped garlic and grated ginger. Stir until garlic begins to turn brown, add blended tomatoes, oregano, salt, pepper and give it a good stir. Taste and add more seasoning if needed, cover the sauce and let cook between 15–20 minutes.
In the meantime, remove the seeds from the one tomato saved and cut into cubes. Add to the sauce and let simmer for another 5 minutes, then take tomato sauce off the heat.
Whether you are putting it on pizza, bread or even using it as a base for any tomato stew, this simple tomato sauce is really versatile, easy to make as you can tell by now and has a nice natural flavor that you will not find in any store-bought pizza sauce /tomato sauce.
Check out my homemade pizza, if you would like to make your own pizza at home.