Nothing beats homemade pizza! This easy homemade pizza sauce is made from fresh tomatoes. It takes minutes to make and freezes well too, so that the bounties of the garden can be enjoyed all year.
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What to do with Fresh Tomatoes When You Don’t Like Tomatoes
My mom always had a garden. I remember our cat, Stanley, riding around on her back as she weeded around the vegetable plants. The house smelled like herbs all summer because there was always something drying on the dehydrator. Want to learn more about dehydrating herbs? Then tomato season came and it looked like a murder scene in her kitchen. Blanching, cutting, freezing, canning. Tomatoes took over every basket, bowl, and counter in the kitchen. Little did I know that my kitchen would one day look the same.
I love to garden. Something about planting seeds, caring for the seedlings, and harvesting the produce brings me joy. But I’ve got a confession to make before we go on. Although I love growing tomatoes, I hate eating them. I always have. Nothing ruins a dish like tomatoes, especially fresh ones. But I do like pizza and pizza sauce. So my abundance of tomatoes becomes a large batch of this easy homemade pizza sauce. Which delights both my picky palate and my pizza loving husband.
Why is it that when it’s time to harvest tomatoes they seem to multiply? Seriously, how can 4 tomato plants fill my kitchen sink plus some counter space with tomatoes? In order to save my sanity and the tomatoes, I need a quick way to process them and get them moving on. Blanch, mill, boil, then freeze seems to be the easiest way for me to get them out of my way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a full day or weekend worth of work. But It gets them from the garden to the freezer in a timely manner. Plus you don’t really have to do much more than an occasional stir once they are boiling. Easy peasy, tomato saucey.
When you think about it, a year’s worth of sauce in one weekend isn’t all that bad of a deal. Two days of work for 363 days of sauce.
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Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes
This easy homemade pizza sauce is a great way to use up all of those fresh tomatoes from your garden. It freezes well, tastes amazing, and gives your pizza a leg up in the homemade pizza department. A delicious sourdough pizza crust covered with homemade pizza sauce simply can’t be beat.
I like to turn my tomato harvest into a simple tomato sauce, so that I can use it for various things throughout the year. Although I can use it for other recipes, our favorite use is pizza sauce. On pizza night, I will thaw out a couple of sauces while the sourdough crust rises. Then when it’s time to get saucy, all I have to do is toss in the spices.
By making this easy homemade pizza sauce from fresh tomatoes and herbs from my own garden, I know exactly what is going into the sauce. Unlike store bought pizza sauce that is full of soybean oil, citric acid, sugar, and other “natural flavors” my sauce is real food with real flavors. It means I can feel good about feeding my family pizza because I know that it was made with real foods from my own backyard.
Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes Recipe
Ingredients
⅔ cup (2 pucks) plain tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon Garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon Oregano
1/4 teaspoon Onion powder
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Basil
Instructions
Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl.
Use a spoon to spread it evenly on the pizza crust.
Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes Tips
This easy homemade pizza sauce can be used on a homemade pizza or as a dipping sauce like you would use marinera. My husband enjoys dipping mozzarella sticks and toasted raviolis in the homemade pizza sauce.
If you prefer to make up a big batch of pizza sauce ahead of time then I highly recommend freezing it. I like to freeze mine in muffin tins. Once the sauce is frozen I take the little pucks and put them in a gallon ziploc, which I keep in the freezer. When I need pizza sauce, I will pull out two pucks and tada we have homemade pizza sauce. It makes for a very simple weeknight dinner.
If you forget to put the sauce out to thaw, then just pop it in the microwave for a few seconds or on the stove for a couple minutes. It’s almost as easy as opening up a can of store sauce.
Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes
Nothing beats homemade pizza! This easy homemade pizza sauce is made from fresh tomatoes. It takes minutes to make and freezes well too, so that the bounties of the garden can be enjoyed all year.
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup (2 pucks) plain tomato sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon Garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon Onion powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Basil
Instructions
- Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl.
- Use a spoon to spread it evenly on the pizza crust.
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Wondering if you can provide more information on your tomato processing aspect of this recipe? Very interested in this!
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Check out this post about blanching and coring tomatoes https://morgansfarmhouse.com/how-to-blanch-and-core-tomatoes/
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