How to Make Homemade Pizza Sauce

Description

This is my new and improved version. And by ‘new and improved,’ I mean ‘old and secret.’ Here is my top-secret formula. The next time you’re making homemade pizza, you might as well make some sauce too.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 anchovy fillets
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano leaves
  • ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • ½ teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes (preferably San Marzano), crushed
  • salt to taste
  • ½ teaspoon white sugar
  • 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 small pinch baking soda

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil over medium-low heat in a saucepan; stir anchovy fillets into olive oil and cook
  2. stirring often
  3. until the fillets begin to sizzle
  4. about 1 minute. Mix garlic into oil and cook just until fragrant
  5. 1 minute more. Add fresh oregano and reduce heat to low; cook until oregano is wilted
  6. 2 or 3 more minutes.
  7. Mix red pepper flakes
  8. dried oregano
  9. and tomatoes into olive oil mixture. Bring sauce to a simmer and season with salt
  10. sugar
  11. and black pepper. Turn heat to low; simmer sauce until thickened and oil rises to the top
  12. 35 to 40 minutes
  13. stirring occasionally.
  14. Stir baking soda into pizza sauce
  15. mixing until thoroughly combined.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 35 mins

Total Time: 55 mins

Servings: 8

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