Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make tomato sauce for pizza? Prepare the products. Choose tomato paste without additives, only tomatoes should be in the composition. Instead of olive oil, ordinary vegetable oil, odorless, will do. But olive oil will taste better. In addition to basil, you can put other spices, I like to add oregano or a mixture of Italian herbs.
Step 2:
Peel the garlic and cut into thin slices.
Step 3:
Peel and chop the onion very finely.
Step 4:
To prepare the sauce, it is better to use dishes with a thick bottom or a frying pan with a non-stick coating. I took the frying pan. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, put the garlic in it. Over moderate heat, simmer the garlic for 1 minute to give the oil a light spicy flavor. At the same time, turn the garlic plates a couple of times so that they do not burn. Then remove the garlic from the pan.
Step 5:
Put the chopped onion in a frying pan, fry it over low heat until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
Step 6:
Add tomato paste to the onion, mix. Heat the tomato paste over low heat for 1 minute.
Step 7:
Pour in the water, mix.
Step 8:
Add salt, sugar, dried basil or other spices to the sauce, mix. I advise you to taste the sauce to add the missing ingredients. Let the sauce boil.
Step 9:
Simmer the sauce over low heat until thickened for about 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the sauce from the heat, let it stand under the lid for 15 minutes. It is not necessary to keep the sauce on the fire for too long, otherwise it will be too thick. In addition, after cooling, the sauce will thicken even more.
Step 10:
Tomato sauce is ready. You can start cooking pizza. Have a good baking!
Tomato sauce for pizza can also be made from fresh or canned tomatoes.
Of aromatic herbs, basil is almost an obligatory ingredient of pizza sauce. Instead of dried basil, it is also good to use fresh herbs, it has a more pronounced taste and aroma. In this case, the sauce does not need to be infused, it can be used immediately after cooking.
Basil can be supplemented with oregano. Ready-made mixtures of herbs (Italian, Provencal) are also suitable.
If you want garlic to be present in the sauce, then you can chop it very finely or pass it through a press and add it to the sauce in step 8.
To make homemade sauce tasty and healthy, it is important to choose a good quality tomato paste.
The label of high-quality tomato paste should have the word GOST. The composition of such a product includes only tomatoes and water. No salt and other fillers, and even more so thickeners, preservatives and artificial colors.
A good tomato paste has a rich red color.
This amount of sauce is enough for about 3 medium pizzas. It is prepared simply and quickly. In my opinion, from the point of view of usefulness, this is the best replacement for store-bought sauces.
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Fresh basil - 27 kcal/100g
- Dried basil - 251 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Tomato paste - 28 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
