Tomato sauce for pizza

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Tomato sauce for pizza
Tomato sauce for pizza
Blitzed and reduced
Servings:Enough for four large pizzas
Ready in:1 hour 10 minutes
Prep. time:10 minutes
Cook time:1 hour
Difficulty:Average difficulty
Tomato sauce for pizza
Reducing in a slow cooker

If you are making your own pizzas, then you'll need this recipe for a spicy topping.

Make larger quantities and freeze the remainders for the next pizza making session.

There is a good basic pizza dough recipe here.

Ingredients

Ingredients

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Method

  1. Heat the oil in a pan and add the garlic, chili flakes, chili powder and onions and fry gently until translucent, about 4 minutes
  2. Add the paprika powder, red wine and sherry vinegar and simmer to reduce by half
  3. Add the chopped tomatoes to the pan with the tomato puree and bring to the boil
  4. Add the remaining herbs, reduce and simmer for 30 minutes
  5. Pour the sauce into a food processor with a blade and blitz to a puree
  6. Return to the pan and add the sugar and Parmesan cheese and cook for a further 15 minutes
  7. Season with salt and pepper, the final consistency should be a paste not runny. Reduce a little more if required.
  8. Allow to cool

Chef's tip

Recently I made a huge batch of pizza topping with this years' surplus tomatoes with the intention to vacuum pack them into single pizza portions. I used the basic procedure as above, but for the reducing stage, added the sauce to a slow cooker on high to 12 hours, uncovered (or until the sauce reaches a nice thick consistency). The sauce was then frozen into about half -full paper coffee and then vacuum packed. An absolute success.

If you are making the sauce ahead of the pizzas and it needs further reduction, just remove from the heat and leave to dry out a little, naturally. This works especially well in a large frying pan.

A brilliant, but rather obvious idea that has only come to me recently, is to make double the amount, bag it up and freeze it in one or two pizza portions. Home-made pizzas are great, but sometimes it's too much hassle to have to make the sauce as well.

Bottled bolognaise-type sauce makes a good very pizza topping with very little effort. Freeze the remainder in pizza-portion sized bags for the next pizza making session.