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Quick and easy this 5 minute Pizza Sauce recipe will be the perfect complement to your homemade pizza!
This homemade pizza sauce is quick and easy to make using simple, budget-friendly, pantry ingredients. As an added bonus no cooking is required, letting us mix together this sauce in less than 5 minutes. This sauce maintains a light, yet rich tomato and herb flavoring. Pair this homemade sauce with our No Yeast Pizza Dough or use it to make these fun English Muffin Pizzas for family dinner.
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Tomato Sauce: This recipe uses canned tomato sauce. You can substitute with crushed tomatoes if you prefer more texture, or you can use whole peeled tomatoes and blend them yourself.
- Tomato Paste: This will add a nice thickness to the sauce.
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil: A small amount of oil gives a light richness to the sauce without watering it down.
- Seasoning: Using a combination of garlic and oregano gives a nice mild flavoring. Fresh or dried herbs can be used. You could also add some basil and/or onion powder if you prefer.
Find the complete recipe card below with measurements and full instructions.
How To Make Pizza Sauce
- Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and dried oregano to a medium size mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Adjust amounts of olive oil and tomato paste as needed to get the desired consistency. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
Serving
This pizza sauce recipe makes enough for 2 large pizzas or 4 medium size pizzas. You can always double the recipe as needed or prepare half. Although we recommend making the amount in the recipe and storing/freezing any leftovers for your next pizza night.
Storage
Store this homemade pizza sauce in a sealed glass jar or container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Or freeze it for up to 3 months. Thaw the sauce at room temperature before using.
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Homemade Pizza Sauce
Ingredients
- 15 ounce tomato sauce
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a medium size mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
- Spread onto your favorite pizza dough or store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
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Notes
- Tomato Sauce: This recipe uses canned tomato sauce. You can substitute with crushed tomatoes if you prefer more texture, or you can use whole peeled tomatoes and blend them yourself.
- Seasoning: Using a combination of garlic and oregano gives a nice mild flavoring. Fresh or dried herbs can be used. You could also add some basil and/or onion powder if you prefer.
- Can be stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container for up to 2 weeks.
- Store in the freezer for up to 3 months and thaw at room temperature before using.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Photography by @JessGaertnerCreative
This recipe was first posted on June 15, 2016. Updated January 14, 2020 and April 2, 2024.
Can you Freeze the Homemade Pizza Sauce?
Has anyone made the 3x (NO Yeast) Pizza Dough and 3x Homemade Pizza Sauce put the sauce on the extra dough and froze it to use latter? If so was it just as good when you defrosted it, added the toppings and cooked it?
I am thinking this could really work as a Once-a-Month Cooking option if you can freeze the sauce on the Dough. You could make up different bags of toppings to use on the frozen pizzas or even put the toppings on before freezing.
If you don’t use the whole amount can you store in refrigerator (if so, how long?)? Or feeeze?
Thanks!
Good question. Will it be freezer burnt if we leave it in the freezer for too long?
Freeze the sauce for 3-4 months. Beyond that the sauce most likely will not hold flavor when used. As for storing the pizza sauce at room temperature, once we open the cans of tomato sauce and tomato paste, they no longer should be kept at room temperature. Storing the sauce in the refrigerator is the best option.
Suprt duper yummy. Super duper easy. I simplified the pizza a little more by putting it on flour tortillas . Broiled the shells for just a few minutes then topped like normail and baked 42t for 15-17 minutes.
*super* sorry all cracked screen and no proofreading…….
Thank you for this delicious recipe. I never realized how easy it would be to make your own pizza sauce. I will never buy it again!
Can I use this on a yeast dough?
Of course!
The dough was excellent. For my sauce tho as weird as it sounds I’ve always used jar spaghetti sauce. Tastes great and no one knows the difference.
Just my weird idea?
I use salsa or picante sauce. it is great to spread on dough for a pizza!!!! you can use mild or hot sauce…. thanks for the dough receipe!
What if I don’t have tomato paste
Hi Brianna, the tomato paste is going to thicken up the sauce. Without it the sauce will be runny.
Cook it down in a skillet. Just like you do with fresh tomates. Cooking does take time.the best isnt from a can. Do the rest while it reduces. That was a very lame answer.
Thanks. I wanted to know that too
Use this pizza base at least once every weekend !!i have big starving lads they love it i have shared recipe with all my friends a complete hit !!love it
Holy moly . This was super easy and super delicious. My child approved which was even better! Thanks so much! I can’t wait to share this with my family!
Thanks so much Sarah!
I am inspired knowing that we can make a dough without using the yeast.. thank you for adding our knowledge . You have a nice program that many of us mothers will not experience difficulty in preparing merienda cena.