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Classic Tomato
Pizza Sauce Recipe
This tomato sauce
is lightly herbed with oregano and basil, yet the basic tomato taste is
allowed to shine through. Some pizza aficionados prefer an even simpler
sauce than this, but, you'll like the colors and bouquet this sauce adds
to your own, home-made pizza. This recipe makes about 2 quarts.
Ingredients:
3 tbsp. - Butter
16 oz. - Can of tomato puree
3 tbsp. - Olive oil
1 tsp. - Salt
3 cloves - Garlic, minced
1/4 tsp. - Black pepper
3 - Large yellow onions, minced
1 tsp. - Whole oregano
2 qts. - Canned whole Italian tomatoes
1 tsp. - Whole basil
Preparation:
In a Dutch
oven or large skillet, melt the butter with the olive oil and slowly but
completely sauté the garlic and onion.
Add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, oregano, basil and puree. Bring to
a boil, then simmer covered for two hours. Stir occasionally, crushing
the tomatoes with a potato masher.
Continue to mash, stir, and simmer partially covered until the sauce
reaches the consistency of a rich soup.
If you find you have too many or too large tomato seeds left in the
sauce, you may run the sauce through a sieve, (strainer). Set the sauce
aside to cool or refrigerate before applying it to your pizza dough.
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