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Sometimes I get home from work and just want to make a quick pizza. No handmade dough. No unusual toppings. Just a heat-and-eat store-bought crust, topped with a fantastic homemade sauce and a few easy ingredients. Such as Italian sausage, mushrooms, olives, and cheese. And it comes out great, thanks mostly to the sauce. If you don’t have a great sauce, the rest of the pizza won’t be any good. No matter how great the toppings are.

The Perfect Sauce To Keep On Hand

I double this pizza sauce recipe and freeze it. I separate it into batches. That makes it easy to defrost in the fridge in time to make a 15 minute dinner.

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In a hurry? Make my pantry pizza sauce in no time at all!

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Pizza Sauce

If you don’t have a great sauce, the rest of the pizza won’t be any good. No matter how great the toppings are.

Course Sauce

Cuisine Italian

Keyword pizza, sauce

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 5

Servings cups

Calories 114kcal

Author Mike

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
½ cup onion chopped
¼ cup celery chopped
1 clove garlic chopped
1 8 ounce tomato sauce
1 6 ounce tomato paste
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese grated
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
½ teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon fennel seed lightly ground
dried red pepper flake to taste (optional)

Instructions

Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the butter and melt.
Add the onion and celery and saute until starting to soften.
Add the garlic and saute another minute.
Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
Pour mixture into a blender.
Cover with a towel and hold down on the lid and puree the mixture until smooth.
Pour mixture back into the pot over medium heat.
Stir in the tomato sauce and paste.
Add remaining ingredients, stir.
Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer and let simmer 20-30 minutes.
If the sauce is too thick (keeping in mind that you do want a thick sauce) add water a tablespoon at a time until it reaches the desired thickness.
Remove bay leaf before using.

Nutrition

Nutritional values are approximate.

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This isn’t a big-to-do, fru-fru, fancy pizza sauce. It doesn’t have wine or fresh basil or whatever. It isn’t like our favorite homemade sauce that takes a little effort (and a lot more ingredients) to throw together. Everything that goes in it is probably already in your pantry… hence the name, pantry pizza sauce.

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Easy And Delicious

What this pantry pizza sauce is is easy, fast, and tasty. It’s perfect for when you just want to throw together a quick pizza. And that’s exactly what I did. But don’t let things like ‘fast’ and ‘easy’ throw you. This sauce is packed with flavor. It’s not overly sweet. It’s not overly herby. It has the perfect balance of flavors.

This sauce is also great as a dipping sauce for breadsticks.

It takes a little more time, but also try my house pizza sauce.

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Pantry Pizza Sauce

Makes enough for a medium or French bread sized pizza.

Course Sauce

Cuisine American

Keyword pizza, sauce

Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Servings

Calories 153kcal