This Pizza Sauce is easy to prepare and so tasty and flavourful. This sauce is really ultimate; it is  better than all pizza sauces i have ever tried and tasted till date flavour wise and also taste wise.

       Pizza Sauce is a tomato based sauce. Tomato paste, onion and garlic come together and seasoned to get a flavorful, homemade pizza sauce. This creates a slightly sweet, mild spicy, intense tomato sauce. It's also good served with pasta.



INGREDIENTS:

Olive oil- 1 teaspoon
Butter- 1 teaspoon
Bayleaf-1
Fennel- 1 teaspoon
Onion, chopped- ½ cup
Celery, chopped- ¼ cup (optional)
Garlic, finely chopped- 1 clove
*Tomato paste- ¼ cup
Tomato sauce/ Ketchup- ¼ cup
Tomato, blanched and peeled-1 big
Parmesan cheese- 1 tablespoon (optional)
Dried oregano- 1 teaspoon
Salt- ¼ teaspoon
Sugar- ½ teaspoon
Pepper- ¼ teaspoon (according to your spice level)
*If you do not get tomato paste, increase the number of tomatoes added to make tomato puree as three numbers.





PROCEDURE:
  • To blanch the tomato, give the tomato a cross incision and cook in a boiling hot water till soft. Peel the cooked tomatoes and puree it. (If you do not get ready made tomato paste, blanch 3 tomatoes and puree them)
  • In a large pan, melt butter with the oil. Add fennel seeds and bay leaves.
  • After a minute add the onion and half cook them, now add celery and garlic and saute until soft and transparent. 
  •  Add tomato paste and cook for a minute. Then add the pureed tomato and stir until well.
  • Add tomato sauce and balance the taste with salt and sugar.
  • If the sauce is too thick add some water and season with pepper.
  • Grate the Parmesan cheese and simmer for till nice flavor arises about 3-5 minutes.
  • Remove the bay leaf and puree this into a fine paste if you like or use as such.
  • Now the pizza sauce is ready to be spread on your prepared pizza dough.