Basic Pizza Sauce
It's hard to believe that pizza originally did not contain tomatoes, but tomatoes originated from the Americas—they didn't reach Italy until the mid-1500s, and they didn't get popular until the late…
5 min
Ingredients
- 1 can smooth tomato spaghetti sauce or pasta sauce
- 1 handful sugar
- Extra-virgin olive oil (optional)
Steps
- After rolling out dough, ladle on sauce as directed by the pizza recipe.
- Grab a handful of sugar, and sprinkle it over the sauce until the surface of the sauce becomes white but you can see the crystals dissolving.
- Drizzle with olive oil if desired.
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Adapted from “Basic Pizza Sauce” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.