Delicious Pizza Sauce Recipe

  4.7 – 28 reviews  • Pizza Sauce Recipes

This pizza sauce with crushed tomatoes could be made by my kid! It’s that simple!

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 20 mins
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoons olive oil
  2. 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
  3. 2 leaves basil, chopped
  4. 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  5. 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
  6. 1 pinch grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil in a saucepan. Pour crushed tomatoes into the saucepan and place over low heat. Stir basil, garlic, salt, and black pepper into the tomatoes; bring to a simmer. Add Parmesan cheese to sauce to serve.

Reviews

Lauren Wilcox
This is definitely a good base recipe. I add more garlic and about a tbsp of Italian seasoning for added flavour
Sydney Galloway
Really good! Followed recipe except added oregano. Excellent simple recipe and sooo much better than a jar!!
Tracy Wilkerson
tasty
Stacie Maldonado
I made it as directed and found it a little bland. I then added 3 more cloves of garlic, tablespoon of oregano and 3 more leaves of fresh basil and because we like our sauce a little on the sweet side a tablespoon of sugar. I only had a can of diced tomatoes so I used my immersions blender to blend it down. I prefer a thicker sauce so I let it simmer for 40 minutes. Delish.
Caitlin Ball
Delicious easy sauce. Great for folks sensitive to oregano or other typical pizza sauce seasoning.
Cathy Marshall
It is a good recipe for someone that does not like to taste a lot of spice. I found it a little bland. I added more Oregano, garlic, some cumin and red pepper to spice it up and then it was much better.
Krystal Harris
It was super easy and very good we will totally do it again.
Elizabeth Garrett
Very delicious!!
Patrick Koch
I am very pleased with this sauce recipe. I did use two pinches of sugar per reviews, and 1/2 teaspoon of dried basil instead of fresh only because the two stores near me didn’t have any fresh basil. I used 1 pinch of pepper (recipe doesn’t specify) along with the 1 pinch of salt. I must say this is the best pizza sauce I have made to date. It was even a little better the next day, probably because the flavors were able to fully mix overnight. This is now my go to recipe for pizza sauce.
Jason Foster
Basic easy pizza sauce. Pretty good!
Jason Johnson
I use this to can my tomatoes. It works as a great base tomato sauce, just add it to what ever you want to make later.
Todd Martin MD
Awesome and easy. Have made it twice and have plans to make it again adding pepperoni and using it for grinders. (Italian meatball sandwich) Also makes a good marinara for breadsticks as I caught my son finishing the leftovers with the breadsticks I made out of extra pizza dough I had left. I only yelled at him for eating with his head still in the fridge which never happened before.
Kelly Preston
4.7.16 I’ve tried a number of pizza sauce recipes on this site, and although most had good ratings, I felt none were good enough to make again. This version is the best that I’ve tried. I did add a little sugar and used freshly-chopped basil and oregano. I left it simmer for about 45 minutes, and the texture was perfect for spreading onto a pizza crust. Good recipe that will become my go-to unless I can find one that tastes better than my favorite that they use at the Gourmet Pizza Company in Tampa.
Matthew Thomas
This was easy and delicious. I don’t like chunky sauce so I pureed mine and simmered until it was a little thicker. Excellent!
Travis Ross
This is a great base for any sort of tomato sauce, need a marinara? Add some onion and wine. Spaghetti sauce? add some tomato paste, and some sugar. It’s a great starting point for all things tomatoey! It also stands up to a great deal of tinkerability.
Ryan Barrera
Great sauce! I also add sugar to counter the acidity. When I don’t have fresh basil, I replace it with pesto, omitting also the garlic.
Taylor Smith
Excellent start-up sauce. I cook mine more, about 20 minutes, and add a little sugar to counter the acidity but other than that this is a very good basic sauce. The basil is a good addition, try to make a point to use it.
Amanda Porter
This has a wonderful flavor. I also liked the chunks of tomatoes on my pizza. I thought that the sauce was thin so I cooked it on a very low setting for the about a hour while my pizza crust was processing. I used it on the Cast-iron Pizza from this site. It was perfect.
Rita Brown
I didn’t have any basil and used garlic powder instead and it tastes delicious! I puréed carrots and bell peppers and a few extra fresh tomatoes and added them just to up the veggie intake. My 3 yr old and everyone else in the family raves about my pizza!
Amanda Fuller
okay long time to make
Christine Moore
I use bread flour instead of all purpose. Raises up in the oven while cooking. Very awesome.

 

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