This is a very straightforward and authentic flan recipe that is steamed rather than cooked. It has been requested at every family reunion and has been passed down through four generations. It is incredible!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 10 roma tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons garlic salt
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
Instructions
- Place water, tomatoes, and olive oil in a blender or food processor; blend until smooth. Transfer tomato mixture into a large pot.
- Stir sugar, garlic salt, and vinegar into tomato mixture and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thickened, stirring occasionally, about 1 to 2 hours.
- Pour tomato mixture into a clean blender or food processor no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend until very smooth. Repeat with any remaining tomato mixture.
- This should yield enough for about eight 12-inch pizzas where you use about 6 tablespoons of sauce per pizza. Transfer any extra sauce into resealable plastic bags and freeze for later. I put 6 tablespoons of sauce into 8 separate bags. Just run hot water over the bag to thaw.
Reviews
I love this sauce! I have made it several times as both pizza sauce and pasta sauce. I followed others advice and only used 2T sugar and used 1T Garlic salt and 1T Garlic powder. I also added 1T dried Basil and 1T dried Oregano. I cleaned the seeds out of the tomatoes and strained them to use the juices instead of the 1 cup of water. I didn’t remove the skins. And I only puréed them once. It takes longer to cook down for me, but worth the wait and the house smells fantastic when it’s cooking down.
I wish I had read the reviews first. WAY too salty and too sweet. I doubled the tomatoes and it’s still awful.
I wished I would have read the reviews before trying this recipe. Waste of time and ingredients. Too sweet and did not taste or have the consistency of pizza sauce. Yuck!
It turned out great. I am usually sensitive to sweetness since I don’t eat sweets so I didnt think it was sweet at all. I did cook it for about 30-45 min longer so that might have made the difference. The sauce is plain so I think it could use some Italian seasoning. But thats the beauty of the recipe, you can customize it how you like it.
This recipe was fair. It gave me a good base. I added 3 garlic cloves oregano and basil. I too cut down sugar to 1 tbsp. The sauce did not cook down as thick as it needed to be. I ended up adding a 6 oz can of tomato paste. I then slow cooked it all afternoon. The flavor much improved after the tomato paste.
So, I’m basing this rating off of the end product as I followed it step-by-step (and COMPLETELY disregarded the comments section, that was my mistake), the end product was not that good, and completely messed up the pizza in the end. The sugar, as with others, was the problem at the end. It is insanely too sweet as per the ingredients listed, but I do think that this sauce could be good if you just completely breeze over the sugar – or at the very least, add way less sugar, maybe just a dash or something. But yeah, as is, this was massively too sweet.
Way too much sugar. All we tasted was sugar. Not a good recipe
Firstly, I was using my tomatoes from the garden so difficult to translate to 10 Roma tomatoes. Mine turned out orange vs red and not a huge quantity (I used about 30 small tomatoes). Reduced the sugar to just a taste. Overall it was wonderful.
This was way too salty. The 2 tablespoons of Garlic salt ruined it. Perhaps it is a misprint. Would not waste time making this as it is not edible as written
Holy moley, this was waaaay too sweet. I didn’t stray much from the recipe – added a little oregano, basil etc. and made a double batch. I went to do a taste after this simmered for a few hours, and I recoiled in terror – told my wife it was like tomato-ey applesauce. I see that others here who have reviewed this more favorably have commented that they have reduced or omitted the sugar – I will probably give that a shot next. But as written, this is dreadful.
Love this recipe! I have been making it forever, the one thing I suggest is don’t add all the sugar in at once, slowly add it in till it is at the sweetness you want
I made the sauce as the recipe directed. It was quite sweet, but it balanced well with the saltier toppings. My wife and I enjoyed it, but we also fight over the last sugar cookie and marshmallows in the Lucky Charms.
I put in 1 tablespoon of sugar and thought it was plenty sweet. I also took 1 very large glove of garlic and added it to the blender with the tomatos before cooking it all up. I add very little water, maybe 1/2 cup, bc I wanted a thick consistency.
Take most of that salt out and use real garlic. You can buy ready peeled garlic to make it easy. Just blend it with your tomatos
I very much enjoyed this recipe. It was super simple to make with that I already had in my fridge (reader, please note I made this during the COVID-19 outbreak). I made this with 1 Roma tomato and a few baskets of cherry tomatoes. To make up the flavor I added a tablespoon, or so, of tomato paste. The whole apartment smelled delicious while it simmered. I do agree with the other reviewers re: sweetness and garlic salt. I personally had a clove of garlic on-hand, so I chopped up half and let it simmer along with the tomatoes. I think that helped cut the sweetness a good bit. However, I was a bit disappointed at the yield. I was expecting a lot more sauce. Maybe I just really love saucy pizza! Overall a delicious sauce!
I made the exact recipe and being inexperienced i discovered i should have invested time into buying quality roma tomatoes. The sauce was pale and the flavors didn’t blend well. I am confident that if i had quality roma tomatoes the pizza sauce would have been far better. To fix the prob on hand, i added a can of tomato sauce and i was sure to buy back up premade tomato sauce. It turned out pretty good. Next time it will be far better.
Modified based on reviews: Cut sugar to 1 tab. Replaced garlic salt with: 1 tsp salt and a pinch of black pepper. Added 1 tab Italian seasoning, 2 garlic cloves, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, and 1 pinch red pepper flakes. Leave other ingredients the same. Don’t forget to purée through blender once done for smooth sauce.
I wanted to make this as my new go-to pizza sauce but even after 2 hours of simmering it was way too watery.
Delicious!
I really like this recipe the sauce is a bit sweet but good. At first the sauce was really watery but I cooked it on low for about and hour and a half. There wasn’t much sauce as there was at first so I just doubled the recipe.
I used wine instead of water and added some basil and oregano. Came out perfect!! Will be making this again!!