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Kezza's Chunky Pizza Sauce

By LilKiwiChicken on May 23, 2005

Photo by WiGal

6 Reviews

Prep Time: 5 mins
Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
Yield: 2 cups

Photo by WiGal

About This Recipe

"My boyfriend and I had the most fantastic pizza in Italy during our travels, even the takeaway stuff is fantastic. Through trial and error (and expanding waistlines) we think that I've found a good approximation of a home-made pizza sauce we had in Cassino when we went down there for the 60th commemorations last year."

Ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon dried oregano
3 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
2 (400 g) cans plum tomatoes, roughly chopped ( or, 10 x large plum tomatoes, x's cut into the skin, then plunged into boiling water for 2 minutes,)
4 tablespoons tomato paste
freshly ground salt & pepper

Directions

Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan, on medium heat.
Saute the onions and garlic until translucent, but do not allow to burn or brown.
Add the herbs and saute for 1 minute.
Add the tomatoes and tomato paste (and salt & pepper to taste) and simmer for 60 minutes on low heat (I use 2/6) until reduced to a thick sauce. I taste this every 10 minutes and sometimes add pepper if required.
Cool, and use on your favourite pizza bases. Can be used on 4 x medium bases (if you like a lot of sauce), or 6 bases if you like a thinner covering. You can also puree this with a Bamix if chunky sauce isn't your thing (plus, it goes further if you puree it).

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 (1055 g)

Servings Per Recipe: 1

Amount Per Serving: %
Calories 232.6
Calories from Fat 102: 43%

Amount Per Serving: %
Total Fat 11.3g: 17%
Saturated Fat 1.6g: 8%
Cholesterol 0.0mg: 0%
Sugars 17.7 g
Sodium 277.4mg: 11%
Total Carbohydrate 32.1g: 10%
Dietary Fiber 8.3g: 33%
Sugars 17.7 g: 71%
Protein 6.1g: 12%

Reviews

"This is a really easy recipe to make a divine sauce. I used it to make recipe #106952 and recipe #309820. The herbs are just perfect and I used my immersion blender to make it just slightly less chunky. Viva los Jefes!"

By cookiedog on July 10, 2008 | 669172
"Simply deliciousio! Made as posted and left it chunky-saved me some dishes. Froze the other half for another time, so that is something I like b/c we cannot use an entire boughten container's worth. Thanks for sharing a keeper. Made for ZWT4 the Flying Dutchess."

By WiGal on July 08, 2008 | 668134
"This made such good pizza sauce! It was so fresh-tasting, and was super-simple to throw together. I was outvoted two to one for keeping the sauce chunky, so I roughly pureed it with my immersion blender. This made for some great Italian bread pizzas (I think DH ate an entire half loaf all by himself!). I think this is now my go-to pizza sauce recipe, thanks for posting! Made for ZWT4"

By Muffin Goddess on June 23, 2008 | 657417
"I made this for *Zaar World Tour III* - The flavour was very good, I followed the recipe as written and didn't change a thing. I used it under for a Marinara Pizza, the flavours were so delicious together. Thank you LittleKiwiChook"

By Chef floWer on July 02, 2007 | 442339
"I really liked this pizza sauce. Super easy to put together. All I had to do was open up so jars and cans and I was done! I like my sauces more smooth so I blended it with my imersion (sp) blender when it was all said and done. Awesome recipe!"

By anme on June 30, 2007 | 441120
"Yea! Yippee! This is right on littlekiwichook! I had a ton of tomatoes in the garden, (La Roma) and needed to have something done with them. Aughhhh.....the aroma of fresh tomato, garden onion, fresh basil, and fresh thyme is enough to bring the calves home to Momma. I loved adding the fresh basil and garlic cloves together, I whirled this with some olive oil in my little food processor, that alone tastes heavenly, and could easily be eaten with a spoon~just be sure your partner does the same!) I kept mine chunky~but whirled a little bit up in the processor~and then put it all together and it made a really aromatic and delightful pizza sauce. I added 1 teaspoon of butter at end of cooking time with a dash of sugar, just to SMOOOOOOTH it out. Lovely! Will be making this over and over again, and will start canning this as soon as my children leave, and actually leave me some to can, without eating the whole jar first. Made for *ZWT3 07*"

By Andi of Longmeadow Farm on June 30, 2007 | 441035