Best Pizza Sauce Recipe

How to make pizza sauce? The best pizza sauce recipe is often the simplest one. Amongst pizza toppings, the homemade tomato sauce is the basis of a simple margherita pizza (an exquisite example of less is more) or to more elaborated toppings.

You’ll need (for 1 pizza recipe): • 0.88 pounds canned peeled tomatoes • 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil • half onion • a garlic clove • parsley • basil leaves (optional)

Put the oil on a pan and add the other ingredients. It is not necesssary to mince or chop them. Let it cook for about 10 minutes and turn off the gas.

Take a strainer and pass the tomato mix through it (that's why you don't need to mince the ingredients). You will have a more liquid and homogeneous salsa that you will then spread on your dough, as shown on the picture above.

This is the basis of most pizzas. For me, it is the best pizza sauce recipe, as it reflects the Italian culture regarding food: a few ingredients, but high quality ones, will give you the best result. At this point, you can add mozzarella (cut in cubes), oregano, basil leaves and a thread of extra virgin olive oil.

You can vary your toppings according to your taste. You can add sliced fresh tomatoes, sliced peperoni, rocket or whatever you want.

Idea: Create an interesting cocktail snack: after adding the tomato, add some pesto and put it inside the oven. This kind of pesto focaccia will surely pleases all.

Italian and European law In Italy, there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza,specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing(e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called "traditional Italian pizzas" in Italy. On 9 December 2009, the European Union, upon Italian request, granted Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) safeguard to traditional Neapolitan pizza, in particular to "Margherita" and "Marinara".The European Union enacted a protected designation of origin system in the 1990s. source: Wikipedia

More Pizza Recipes:

• Best Pizza Sauce Recipe
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