Pizza Sauce with Pizzaz

We love making homemade pizza in our family. Pizza has always been our go to Friday night dinner. So when we were growing up we started a tradition of having Friday night-Weisser Pizza night. The last time my mom was visiting we decided to try a new recipe for homemade pizza sauce with pizzaz. We started with a recipe from Kitchen Treaty and we changed it up a bit and made it our own. It was fantastic.

Ingredients


1 Tablespoon olive oil
4 cloves garlic smashed
2 cans (14.5 oz) petite diced tomatoes
4-6 leaves fresh basil chopped fine or 1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Saute garlic in olive oil, in a sauce pan. Add basil and oregano and stir for 1 minute. Add canned tomatoes, salt, pepper, sugar and red pepper flakes. Stir until combined. Bring to a boil over medium heat, turn to low and simmer for 60 minutes. Sauce should thicken up. We like chunky pizza sauce but if you want it smooth, pour into blender and blend until smooth. Store in a mason jar. Lasts at least 1-2 weeks in refrigerator, but we used it up the day we made it on two large pizzas.
This really makes the homemade pizza even better that ever!To see another pizza sauce recipe that we love, check out Bethany’s past post “Food for Mommy’s Day” from Mother’s Day last year.