Pizza sauce - 15 recipes as in a pizzeria, cook fast!

It's hard to find someone who doesn't like pizza. There is sure to be a filling that will win the heart of the most fastidious gourmet. Someone loves thin pizza, someone - on a thick crust of yeast dough. But its main secret is not based. He is in the sauce. Therefore, today we will try to prepare a real pizza sauce - the recipe, as in a pizzeria, will definitely not leave anyone indifferent! We will not argue for a long time, but immediately proceed to the practical part. Open the refrigerator, there probably will be everything we need.

What you need to make the sauce, the main ingredients

You can cook any pizza, even Margarita, even Four Cheeses on the basis of a very different test, but sauce always plays a decisive role in it.

It should be juicy, bright, quite saturated, but at the same time not interrupt the taste of the dish itself, but only shade it.

Traditionally, three types of sauces are distinguished:

1. Red is cooked on a tomato basis. You can use both fresh and canned tomatoes for this. In the first case, it is better to choose sour varieties so that the taste of the fill is not fresh. If you don’t have tomatoes at hand, you can take ready-made pasta. The effect, of course, is not the same, but still, with some effort, the result will be quite decent.
2. White sauce is not so popular in pizza, but also finds its connoisseurs. It is usually prepared on the basis of cream or soft cheese.It happens that kefir is added to the composition.
3. Green sauce is a rarity in our pizzerias and tables. Usually this is a classic basil pesto, which gives the mass color. But there are other, more exotic options, which we will talk about below.

The first kind of sauce is usually used in meat pizzas. It is in perfect harmony with sausages, pork, bacon, olives. Creamy dressing is often lubricated with a seafood dish - salmon, shrimp, mussels. It is also better to add to pizza with mushrooms and vegetables. But cheeses and chicken are “friends” with both types of sauces. As for green, it itself is very self-sufficient, and therefore does not combine with complex fillings. It can be supplemented with poultry, vegetables, fish, olives.

 

1. As an additional ingredient, greens are always added to the sauce. These are basil, cilantro, dill and other herbs.
2. Not without hot pepper. Depending on preferences, ordinary ground pepper or a slice of real cayenne can be used.
3. Speaking of pepper, one cannot forget about Bulgarian. Its delicate taste perfectly complements tomato dressings.
4. For piquancy, garlic is often added to sauces. You can take fresh or dried - no matter which is at hand. But, of course, if there is plenty to choose from, give preference to the young. It is more fragrant.
5. Onions are also a frequent guest in the dressing. It is usually cut with the thinnest, almost transparent half rings. To eliminate a specific taste, onions are sometimes pickled.
6. Be sure to include oil in the sauce. It must be neutral. It is better to take olive or sunflower, but refined.
7. White sauces are prepared with the obligatory addition of butter and flour. Cream, sour cream, kefir, cheeses of all stripes can also be introduced here.
8. Do not forget to add the mixture so that it is not fresh. Sometimes a pinch of sugar is also present in the sauce.

Mistresses like to add mayonnaise everywhere. This is not the best ingredient in a dish. With the same success, you can spread pizza with ready-made tomato piquant “Spicy” and not fool yourself.

Easy home-made sauces recipes

So, probably in the corners of the refrigerator a decent set will gather, which is enough for our purposes.

To make pizza sauce at home, we need:

• selected vegetables (washed and peeled);
• knife and cutting board;
• stewpan or small saucepan;
• pan;
• blender
• spatula.

It remains to determine the type of filling and you can proceed.

None of the proposed recipes is canonical. You can quite modify them, change to your tastes and capabilities.

Or maybe some recipe will inspire you to create author's sauce.

Classic Italian Pizza Sauce

 

This recipe is a strict classic. It is simple and versatile, like a little black dress from Chanel.

The ingredients will need the simplest:

• ripe tomatoes - 5 pieces;
• garlic - a pair of cloves;
• basil - a branch;
• oil - a spoon;
• hot pepper and a little salt.

Fresh tomatoes can be replaced with canned ones. It is also possible to add tomato paste to the fill if the vegetables themselves are sweet, without sourness. Strong, sour tomatoes do not need pasta. So how to make pizza sauce?

1. Tomatoes are put peeled. To make the peel easily peeled off, throw the fruit into boiling water for 15-30 seconds (depending on the variety), after making a cross-shaped incision in the “buttock”.
2. Cut the peeled tomatoes into halves or quarters and temporarily set aside - let the excess liquid go away.
3. Heat the pan, pour oil into it.
4. Chop the garlic finely or mince through garlic ginger and sauté.
5. Put the tomatoes in a pan and mash them with a fork until smooth. Reduce the fire to medium.
6. While the tomatoes are languishing, finely chop the basil and add it to the pan closer to the end of the process.
7. Remove the cookware from the heat when the amount of tomato mass is approximately tripled.Rub it through a sieve and rub it with salt and pepper.

The traditional tomato pizza sauce is ready - grease the cakes! It can be left in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, and left in the freezer for up to two months.

Pizza Tomato Sauce

If you plan to use a complex multi-component filling, then prefer a simple sauce, for example, from tomatoes alone.

1. Halve the tomatoes and place on a baking sheet. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper.
2. Bake for several minutes until cooked.
3. Remove the peel from the tomatoes (it can already be easily removed), chop them with a blender and transfer the tomato mass to a stewpan. Boil it in just a few minutes - done!

Creamy Pizza Sauce

 

The best choice would be a classic Italian dressing for fettuccine.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of the most fat cream (you can take homemade);
• a glass of grated parmesan;
• a third of a glass of milk;
• 4 tablespoons of oil (pre-melt);
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• garlic and chives.
• salt and pepper.

Let's get started!

1. Sauté chopped garlic until golden in butter.
2. Add cream and milk, stirring slowly, heat, but do not let it boil.
3. Pour in flour to make the mixture thicker. Depending on the fat content of the cream, its amount may vary, so pour a little bit of it. When the mass thickens, remove from heat.
4. Pour grated parmesan and chopped onions into the creamy sauce until it cools down. Salt and sprinkle with black pepper.

In good conscience, mix and use in pizza, in pasta or just for bread.

White pizza sauce

This is a very simple recipe that will require a minimum cooking time. The taste of the finished fill is neutral, and therefore will suit absolutely any filling.

Prepare:

• meat broth - half a liter;
• butter - 40-50 grams;
• a couple of spoons of flour.

Note that for meat fillings, you need a broth for meat, and for seafood, a broth for fish is suitable.

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry the flour in it, adding a couple of tablespoons of broth.
2. Add the broth gradually into the thick mass, stirring constantly.
3. Let the mixture boil and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Strain the finished fill and immediately grease the cake.

Tomato paste pizza sauce

There is no tomato, there is a snowstorm on the street, and in the refrigerator is only tomato paste? Let her go!

• 2 tablespoons of pasta;
• a spoon of oregano;
• two pinches of red pepper;
• some olive oil.

You can add garlic, greens to the sauce and generally replace them with tomatoes in any of the recipes described. But the proposed option is an excellent base for the first experiment.

1. Put the pasta in a bowl and spread a little with water.
2. Add dry oregano, add oil and red pepper.
3. Salt and mix thoroughly until smooth.

You can start forming pizza. Since we went the simple way, you can safely add sour cream and a little mustard - an excellent soft sauce will come out.

Sour cream pizza sauce

If you plan to put mushrooms and chicken in pizza, then the sauce to it should only be sour cream! This is a classic combination of tastes, a win-win and beloved by everyone.

• sour cream - a glass;
• melted butter - 1.5 tablespoons;
• flour - 3 tablespoons;
• two pinches of salt, pepper.

This is a traditional recipe, but you can diversify it by adding two hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard. An excellent addition will be greens, garlic and a spoonful of regular tomato paste.

1. Pour the flour into the pan and fry. Allow to cool.
2. Add butter to the flour, heat again to melt it.
3. Slowly add sour cream, stir constantly. Bring to a boil.
4. Add pepper and salt. Cook for a few minutes, and strain before use.

Garlic Pizza Sauce (Caesar)

 

There are a lot of options for garlic sauce. You can just push the garlic through a press, pour it into a jar of olive oil, add salt and let it brew for 3-5 hours. Refined and European. Well, we love fatter, but later.

• garlic - half a head;
• sour cream - 6 spoons;
• olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
• lemon juice.

You don’t have to stew and fry anything. Just crush the garlic in a mortar, add salt, oil and lemon juice. Whisk with a whisk. Then gradually add fat sour cream and continue whisking to make the sauce light and airy.

By the way, as an excellent garlic dressing for pizza, French aioli is also suitable. Not all laurels to Italians. Grind raw yolk with garlic, add oil, whisking with a whisk. Add salt, pepper, and add a little vinegar and water. Beat well.

Unusual green sauce

Consider two options - a truly European and Eastern, Thai. Both are green, but completely different from each other.

In Italy, they love pesto very much and use it, among other things, as a pizza sauce.

There are only five ingredients:

• grated parmesan - 150 grams;
• vegetable (preferably olive) oil - 150 ml;
• peeled pine nuts (can be replaced with walnuts) - 4 tablespoons;
• garlic - a pair of cloves;
• Basil - a lot!

Cooking takes a couple of minutes. Grate cheese, greens with garlic and nuts, grind in a mortar into a homogeneous gruel. Mix the resulting mass with cheese and butter - your pesto is ready to go to the cake.

Thai sauce has an emerald green color and a very unusual taste. The ingredients are also specific. But if you want to really surprise guests, believe me - this is your choice.

So, prepare:

• green chili - 4 pieces;
• onion;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• cilantro, lemon zest - on a spoon;
• oil - a spoon;
• cumin, turmeric, cinnamon - a teaspoon.

Unripe chili is not as sharp as red, but if it seems too hot to you, replace part of it with green pepper.

1. Peel the beans and chop. Grind onions and garlic with herbs in a blender.
2. Transfer all prepared ingredients to a saucepan, pour in oil and simmer for a couple of minutes.
3. Add spices at the end, and leave the mixture to infuse.

Quick recipe

 

Are guests on the doorstep and every minute counts? Record a quick recipe!

You will need:

• a can of ready-made tomatoes;
• garlic;
• vegetable oil;
• any herbs.

Cooking fast. We cut the garlic into slices and brown in oil. We spread the tomatoes and knead with a fork. While the tomato-garlic mass "gurgles", we chop finely basil, cilantro, dill or whatever is found there. We put everything in a pan, salt, cover and leave to go until we prepare the filling and the dough.

Gourmet Red Wine Sauce Recipe

Quick fill is great.

Now we add frills for real gourmets:

• a pound of tomato;
• a glass of red wine;
• vegetable oil;
• onion, carrots, celery;
• garlic;
• thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary - a teaspoon.

To prepare this sauce, chop finely vegetables and grind in a mortar.

1. In a preheated pan, fry the vegetables in oil.
2. Add the garlic, and all the greens at once - let the vegetables thoroughly soak in the aroma.
3. After a couple of minutes, fill the mixture with wine.
4. While the wine is warming, peel the tomato and chop them finely. Pour into a pan.
5. Stew until half an hour, salt and leave to go under the lid.

Before use, you can grind the mass in a blender until smooth.

Mushroom Pizza Sauce

This pouring option is perfect for meat or mushroom pizza. Delicate and fragrant, but unobtrusive.

Components:

• ¼ kg of champignons;
• 250 ml of fatty (35% or more) cream;
• a couple of spoons of flour;
• dill and a pinch of salt.

If you want, add garlic or passivated onions to the sauce.

1. Slice the mushrooms and toss into the pan. Strain until they let the juice go.
2. Enter the cream and bring the mixture to a boil.
3. Add flour a little to thicken the mass.
4. At the end, salt and sprinkle with finely chopped greens.

It is better to grind the whole mass in a blender so that the mushroom taste is somewhere on the periphery without interrupting the main components of the pizza.

Neapolitan sauce

This sauce smells like the sun on the southern coast of Italy, where one of the largest cities in the country of Naples stands.Pastas and pizzas are incredibly popular here with the addition of tomato sauce with onions that are classic for these places. With us he got the name "Neapolitania" or "Neapolitano". For cooking you will need:

• a pound of fresh tomato;
• large onion;
• clove of garlic;
• 4-5 tablespoons of oil;
• basil;
• salt, a pinch of sugar and black pepper.

Traditionally, we start cooking by peeling the tomato from the skin.

1. Cut the onion as finely as you can, it will have to completely “disperse” in the tomato mass, leaving only its taste.
2. Grind the garlic into gruel so that the slices do not come across in the finished sauce.
3. Cut the tomatoes.
4. Chop the basil. If desired, you can add oregano to it (oregano, in our opinion).
5. Warm the pan, add oil and put onions. Fry until golden. Add the garlic and sauté another minute.
6. Put the tomatoes in a pan and simmer for half an hour, until the excess liquid is gone, and the fruits themselves completely turn into porridge.
7. Chop the sauce with herbs and salt, add a little sugar and ground black pepper to taste.

Leave the sauce to infuse under the lid for about 10 minutes and you can put it into action.

Vegetable sauce

 

A spicy mix of vegetables will well tint the taste of meat filling.

• 3 fleshy tomatoes;
• 2-3 pickled cucumbers;
• 250 grams of champignons;
• garlic, a couple of cloves;
• carrots, onions;
• third of a glass of sour cream.

Prepare all the ingredients: peel and chop the tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, chopped onion with garlic, chop the carrots.

1. Fry the champignons, add onions and carrots to them.
2. When the vegetables are half-ready, shift tomatoes and cucumbers to them.
3. Pour the whole mass with sour cream, bring to a boil. At the very end, add the garlic, salt and pepper.

You can leave the sauce in this form, but it is better to chop everything thoroughly with a fork, mixer or blender.

Hot Spicy Tomato Sauce

If you want something hotter, then prepare a fiery fill. To do this, in a regular tomato sauce (according to the recipe indicated above) at the cooking stage, add the chili pepper crushed in a mortar and, if desired, ginger. To make the mass thicker, boil 2-3 hard-boiled eggs and introduce the yolks into the tomato mass. Stir well.

Red bell pepper pizza sauce

And in this recipe tomatoes are not present at all, but no one will forbid them to be added if you have such a desire.

• 3-4 large Bulgarian peppers;
• half a glass of chicken stock;
• basil leaves;
• a pinch of chili;
• salt.

Cooking does not require special cooking skills. Everything is simple. Bake the peppers on a baking sheet until cooked, then peel them and chop into a pulp with a fork or blender. Transfer the mass to a pan, add spices and herbs, pour in the broth. Simmer over a low heat until thickened.

Any of the proposed sauces is not difficult to prepare and will succumb even to a young hostess. Therefore, boldly proceed with culinary experiments and be sure that it will turn out delicious!