Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce – 30 Minute Recipe
A simple and easy to make homemade pizza sauce that comes together in 30 minutes! Pantry ingredients make this delicious sauce for pizza, appetizers, or dipping bread sticks.
This vegan pizza sauce is vegan, naturally gluten free, made with simple pantry ingredients, easy to make, and totally delicious!
Perfect on top of my vegan pizza crust or wrapped up in my vegan pizza rolls.
Ingredients
For the full ingredient list, complete with recipe amounts, please see the recipe card below.
- Tomatoes: While fresh tomatoes in the summer are perfect, 99% of the time I use the peeled canned tomatoes from the can. I love the consistency of quality they have, not to mention the minimal ingredients. Cento and Trader Joe’s make my two favorite brands.
- Herbs and Spices: A combination of basil, parsley, oregano, and onion powder make up the base. If you are not sensitive to spicy foods, adding red pepper flakes is really amazing. Add this to taste.
- Olive Oil and Garlic: You can’t have pizza sauce without it! Add 3 or 4 cloves, or however many your heart tells you.
- Brown Sugar: Most recipes call for a bit of sweet to counter the acidity of the tomatoes. I made this with brown sugar one time and never looked back. The touch of molasses you can’t taste overtly but it makes you wonder what changed to make the sauce taste so good.
- Orange Juice: This is an optional ingredient, but I typically like to add a splash of orange juice to a lot of my tomato based recipes. I just think it adds a little extra pizazz to the flavor!
Instructions
Make sure to check out the recipe card below for the full recipe and ingredient list.
Making this sauce is really easy and done in only two steps!
First up: Mix the sauce together
In a blender or food processor, blend all the ingredients together until smooth.
Second: Cook it down on the stove top.
Transfer the sauce to a medium sauce pot and let it come to a simmer over medium heat. Make sure you stir this frequently. It will cook down over 20 or so minutes. Use immediately or freeze to use later.
How to Store
This sauce freezes fantastically! I always made a double batch of sauce and store the extra in 1 cup containers in the freezer to use anytime I make pizza or need a good tomato dipping sauce.
Fridge: Store any extra sauce in an airtight container and use within 3 to 5 days.
Freezer: Let the sauce cool completely and then store in freezer safe containers. Keeps well for up to 4 months. Make sure to leave a little extra room at the top of any container you use as pizza sauce will expand as it freezes.
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Equipment
- blender or food processor
- Spatula
- Cooking pot
Ingredients
- 28 oz tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Splash orange juice optional
Instructions
- Blend. In a blender or food processor, combine all the ingredients. Blend until smooth.
- Cook. Transfer the sauce to a small saucepan and cook over medium heat for about 20 to 30 minutes or until the sauce has reduced.
- Bake or Store. Use immediately on top of pizza or as a dipping sauce. Or, you can cool it and store for use another time. Enjoy!
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