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Nick Stellino's No-Cook Pizza Sauce
"It doesn't get any easier than this. This is Nick's basic pizza sauce and the base for Pizza Margherita. Use the best quality tomato sauce and paste available. Normally I like to make this kind of thing starting with fresh tomatoes, but of course, it has to be summer and you have to get your hands on the tomatoes. I promise, you can't get this flavor from hot house tomatoes. Freeze what you don't need or use it to start spaghetti sauce."
photo by GaylaJ
- Ready In:
- 2mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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1 1/2 cups pizza sauce
ingredients
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1⁄2 cup tomato paste
- 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon oregano
- 3⁄4 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
directions
- Place all ingredients in food processor and pulse 10 times.
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Reviews
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This is really good and so easy to make. I used an 8 oz. can of sauce and a 6 oz can of paste. I also used garlic powder instead of salt, and cut the sugar in half. Made the perfect amount for 2 homemade pizzas. -
What an awesome recipe! Thank you so much for sharing! My DH and kids (2 & 4) all loved it. I read all the reviews and added the 1T olive oil, dash of pepper, dash of red pepper, and some shredded parmesan cheese. I also used garlic powder and a dash of salt, but I think next time I'll leave the salt out. I also used 6oz of tomato paste, as we like our sauces a bit thicker (and it was the size of the can lol). It's a big hit here! -
Since the day I watched Nick Stellino prepare this pizza sauce on a PBS cooking program, I've happily been using his recipe. This sauce, which I use to make a lot of homemade pizza and calzones, has become a staple in my kitchen. I can't even remember the last time I bought canned pizza sauce! -
Good recipe to use in a pinch. I used some last night and the rest today. I think I like today's better because the flavors had a chance to blend.
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This was good. I feel like I'm still looking for the perfect homemade sauce though. For me, there is a still-undefineable difference between a good restaurant sauce and what I can do at home. I think I like a no-cook sauce like this best though. Maybe I'll keep tweaking it. Thanks for sharing this recipe, Sugarpea!
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Tweaks
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This is a simple and tasty sauce. I used garlic powder instead of salt. Followed the recipe otherwise. I let it sit for a few hours before using to let the flavors develope. I loved that it didn't take any time at all to put together. I'm looking forward to adding some crushed red pepper and olive oil next time. Thanks so much for posting this recipe. -
This is really good and so easy to make. I used an 8 oz. can of sauce and a 6 oz can of paste. I also used garlic powder instead of salt, and cut the sugar in half. Made the perfect amount for 2 homemade pizzas.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
