Simple Homemade Pizza Sauce from Tomato Paste

This homemade pizza sauce from tomato paste recipe takes no more than 20
minutes. Make this instead of buying pizza sauce in the stores, and enjoy a more
flavorful, healthy, and cheaper sauce.

Servings: 3 pizzas

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Prep Time
5 minutes

Cook Time
15 minutes

Total Time
20 minutes

Course:

Side Dish

Cuisine:

Italian

Keywords:

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🧂 Ingredients

1 6 oz. can tomato paste
1 28 oz. whole peeled tomatoes

or crushed tomatoes
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
6 cloves garlic

minced
1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1 tbsp. honey
½ tsp. oregano
salt and pepper

to taste

Instructions

1 Pour the 28 oz. can of whole peeled plum tomatoes into a bowl. Squeeze and rip
apart the whole peeled tomatoes with your hands. Set aside. You can skip this
step if you’re using a can of crushed tomatoes.
2 Heat a medium or large frying pan over medium heat. Add in the olive oil, red
pepper flakes, minced garlic, and oregano. Let the spices simmer in the oil for
5 minutes. Reduce the heat to low if you have to. You need to be careful as not
to burn the oil and spices, but you want the oil in the pan to be warm and
fragrant through this step. What this will do is infuse the oil with the spices,
and give more flavor to the pizza sauce.
3 Add in the tomato paste and mix into the olive oil. This should only take a
couple of minutes.
4 Add in the whole peeled tomatoes and honey. Stir to combine.
5 Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes.
6 Once it’s done simmering for 10 minutes, you can use it for pizza right away, or
you can store it in an air-tight container for up to 1 week, and use it as you
make pizza.