Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe

Step 1: To begin with Homemade Pizza Sauce, heat olive oil in a large saucepan and add crushed garlic followed by finely chopped onions, carrots and celery giving a minute in between each addition

Step 2: Saute them all together until the onions are translucent

Step 3: At this stage, add the chopped tomatoes and allow the whole thing to cook until the tomatoes get soft

Step 4: Cover the pan with a lid while doing so as the tomatoes could splutter

Step 5: Add tomato puree in between

Step 6: This renders the sauce the ting of colour

Step 7: Add some sugar to counter the acidic flavour

Step 8: When the tomatoes are relatively soft, the skin begins to peel, turn off the flame and add basil leaves along with the stalk and set it aside to cool

Step 9: Puree them all together, season with oregano, salt and pepper as needed in a mixer

Step 10: Store them away in an airtight container into the fridge

Step 11: It remains fresh for a week