Pizza sauce is a separate and special moment in the preparation of homemade pizza, which determines the variety of its taste. The most popular are tomato sauces, like classics, white and pesto sauces, which depends on the choice of filling. Knowing the basics of cooking and the correct selection of ingredients, your pizza will be a real Italian treat.
Tomato paste sauce for pizza
Tomato sauce for pizza, as the most popular and classic, is based on fresh or canned tomatoes, but for homemade pizza there is another option - tomato paste sauce. The obligatory spice for it is fresh or dry basil with garlic. Tomato paste for the sauce is taken of good quality and fried in vegetable oil. The recipe is simple.
Cooking time: 30 minutes.
Cooking time: 10 minutes.
Servings: 2.
- Tomato paste 70 (milliliters)
- Water 50 (milliliters)
- Bulb onions 1 (things)
- Garlic 2 (parts)
- Fresh basil 5 (grams)
- Granulated sugar 5 (grams)
- Salt 2 (grams)
- Vegetable oil for frying
-
Pizza sauce is easy to make at home.First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the sauce according to the recipe. It is better to take fresh basil, but dry basil should be steeped in water beforehand. -
Peel the onion and finely chop with a knife. -
Also finely chop the garlic with washed and dried basil. -
In a non-stick frying pan or small heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the chopped onion until lightly golden, 3 minutes. -
Add tomato paste to the fried onion, mix well and fry for one minute. -
Then pour clean water into the pasta fried with onions and stir the sauce again. -
Lastly, add chopped garlic and basil to the sauce, add salt and sugar. -
Simmer the sauce over low heat for 10-15 minutes until thick. -
Remove the sauce prepared from tomato paste from the heat, cool and you can spread it on the dough base of the pizza and add the selected filling. Bon appetit!
White sauce for pizza like in a pizzeria
White pizza sauce as in a pizzeria takes second place in popularity and is essentially a Bechamel sauce. It is prepared on the basis of butter, milk and flour with the addition of hard cheese, and for an original taste you can add various spices. White sauce combines various meat, poultry and seafood toppings well on pizza.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 3.
Ingredients:
- Butter – 40 gr. (2 tbsp).
- Milk – 400 ml.
- Flour – 45 gr. (3 tbsp).
- Hard cheese – 200 gr.
- Salt – 1/4 tsp.
- Ground black pepper – 3 gr.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately measure the ingredients for the white sauce in the quantities specified in the recipe. Melt the butter cut into pieces in a frying pan.Fry the wheat flour in it until light brown and stir constantly.
Step 2. Warm the milk a little. Then pour it in a thin stream into the fried flour and at the same time stir the sauce with a spatula until it becomes thick and homogeneous. Add salt and black pepper to the thickened sauce and stir again.
Step 3. Grind a piece of hard cheese on a fine grater in advance. Transfer the cheese mixture into the hot sauce and immediately stir vigorously. Simmer the sauce over low heat for another 2 minutes until the cheese melts and is evenly distributed.
Step 4. Cool the prepared white sauce, transfer it to a separate bowl and then use it for baking pizza. Bon appetit!
Alfredo sauce for pizza
The sauce with the beautiful name “Alfredo” belongs to a line of white sauces for pizza, which is baked without adding tomatoes. The sauce is prepared based on three ingredients: cream, butter and Parmesan. This sauce differs from cream cheese sauce in its more concentrated taste due to a different proportion of ingredients; it turns out thick, fatty and quite high in calories.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 4.
Ingredients:
- Heavy cream – 200 ml.
- Butter – 20 gr.
- Hard Parmesan cheese – 50 gr.
- Salt - to taste.
- Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately measure out the ingredients for the sauce in the quantities specified in the recipe.
Step 2. Melt the butter in a saucepan or cast iron skillet over low heat.
Step 3. Pour the cream into the hot oil in a thin stream, quickly bring to a boil over high heat and while stirring, and reduce the heat to low.
Step 4.Pour salt and black pepper into this mass, focusing on your taste and, continuing to stir the sauce, simmer until it reaches a thick consistency.
Step 5. Grind a piece of Parmesan on a fine grater immediately before cooking to preserve its special aroma, and transfer it to a frying pan with the sauce.
Step 6. Then, while stirring, completely melt the Parmesan into the sauce. The texture of the sauce should be like a thin custard.
Step 7. Turn off the fire. Cool the sauce in a frying pan or separate bowl.
Bon appetit!
Creamy pizza sauce like in a pizzeria
Creamy pizza sauce, as in a pizzeria, is a variant of white sauces and is prepared on the basis of ingredients with a pronounced creamy taste in various proportions and sets. In this recipe we prepare the sauce using butter, cream cheese, cream and add processed cheese with a small amount of spices to enhance the taste. Prepare the sauce in a frying pan while constantly stirring the ingredients.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Ingredients:
- Butter – 30 gr.
- Cream cheese – 100 gr.
- Processed cheese – 50 gr.
- Heavy cream – 200 ml.
- Flour – 1 tbsp.
- Salt - to taste.
- Dry garlic - 1 chip.
- Dry parsley - 1 chip.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Divide the cream and processed cheese into small pieces. Cut the butter into pieces and melt in a frying pan over low heat.
Step 2. Place the shredded cheese into the melted butter and, while stirring constantly with a silicone spatula, melt the cheese until smooth.
Step 3. Then pour heavy cream into the cheese mixture, stir and add a spoonful of wheat flour. Mix the flour vigorously so that no small lumps remain.Cook the sauce over low heat until thickened.
Step 4. Lastly, add salt to the sauce and add a pinch of dry garlic and parsley for a light spicy aroma. If possible, dry spices can be replaced with fresh ones. After a minute, turn off the fire. Cool the creamy sauce and use it to form a pizza with the chosen filling. Bon appetit!
Garlic sauce for pizza
Garlic is often added to both tomato and white pizza sauce for a special flavor, and this recipe offers you the easiest and fastest version of garlic pizza sauce. It only requires two ingredients, and depending on the number of cloves of garlic, you can make the sauce either mild (1 clove), medium (2 cloves), or hot (3 cloves). Garlic sauce is prepared for Margarita and Pepperoni, and can be added to other options as desired.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Ingredients:
- Garlic – 1-2 cloves.
- Olive oil – 3 tbsp.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately prepare a simple set of ingredients for the sauce according to the recipe and the number of servings you need. Peel the garlic cloves. Pour olive oil into a bowl to prepare the sauce.
Step 2. Squeeze the peeled garlic through a garlic press into the oil. You can chop it finely with a knife, because some people like pieces of this spice in the sauce. Then mix the oil and garlic well.
Step 3. Prepare the selected ingredients for the filling and bake the crust in advance according to any recipe.
Step 4. Pour the sauce onto the surface of the pizza with a spoon and spread evenly over the entire surface with a silicone brush. Sauce calculation: 1-1.5 tbsp. spoons for one medium-sized pizza, no more needed.Then you can start shaping the pizza.
Step 5. Prepared garlic pizza sauce keeps well in the refrigerator and can be used not only for pizza, but also for dressing salads and baked vegetables. Bon appetit!
Homemade pizza cheese sauce
Cheese sauce for pizza, as our most popular version of white sauces, can be prepared simply and quickly at home. Its main flavoring ingredient is hard cheese and most often Parmesan, but other cheeses can also be used. In this recipe we prepare a sauce based on flour and milk fried in butter, and for seasonings we use Italian herbs and garlic. Cheese sauce is added to any pizza, with the exception of seafood pizza.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 6.
Ingredients:
- Grated Parmesan – 50 gr.
- Butter – 1 tbsp.
- Flour – 3 tbsp.
- Milk – 300 ml.
- Italian herbs – 1 tsp.
- Garlic powder – ½ tsp.
- Sea salt – 1 chip.
- Ground black pepper – 1 chip.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately measure out the ingredients for the sauce according to the recipe so that everything is at hand.
Step 2. Place a non-stick frying pan or saucepan on low heat and melt the butter in it. Then add wheat flour to the butter and fry with constant stirring until light creamy and pasty in texture.
Step 3. Then increase the heat to medium and pour a little heated milk into the frying pan in a thin stream. At the same time, stir the sauce vigorously with a whisk so that no small lumps of flour remain.
Step 4. Pour the seasonings and spices specified in the recipe into the sauce, mix again and simmer the sauce for 3-4 minutes until it becomes thick.
Step 5.Lastly, add grated Parmesan to the sauce and stir until completely melted. The texture of the cheese sauce will be a little runny at first, but once it cools, the sauce will set well.
Step 6. With the cooled cheese sauce, you can grease the base and assemble the pizza. Bon appetit!
Ranch sauce for pizza
Ranch sauce for pizza comes from American cuisine, where it is prepared with buttermilk and dry spices, but in our country this ingredient is replaced with kefir, sour cream or yogurt. These products are mixed with high-quality mayonnaise and a selection of herbs. In this recipe we prepare “Ranch” with kefir and make our own mayonnaise. This sauce will give your pizza an unusual and original taste.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Ingredients:
- Kefir – 100 ml.
- Vegetable oil – 250-300 ml.
- Egg – 4 pcs.
- Mustard – 1 tbsp.
- Sugar – 1 tbsp.
- Apple cider vinegar 6% – 1 tbsp.
- Salt - to taste.
- Green onion – 1 bunch.
- Parsley – 1 bunch.
- Dill – 1 bunch.
- Soy sauce - optional.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately measure the amount of all ingredients for the sauce indicated in the recipe so that everything is on hand.
Step 2. Carefully separate the eggs into yolks and whites and transfer the yolks to a bowl to prepare mayonnaise.
Step 3. Add salt and sugar to them and add a spoonful of regular mustard.
Step 4. Using a mixer at high speed, beat these ingredients into a homogeneous mass.
Step 5. Without stopping whipping, pour vegetable oil into this mixture in a thin stream.
Step 6. At the end, add a little apple cider vinegar to make the mixture light. Homemade mayonnaise is ready.
Step 7. Wash the dill, dry with a napkin and finely chop.
Step 8. Chop fresh parsley in the same way.
Step 9Cut the washed and dried green onions into small pieces.
Step 10. Place all the chopped greens into the mayonnaise sauce and mix with a spoon.
Step 11. Then pour cold kefir into the mayonnaise with herbs.
Step 12. If you wish, you can add a spoonful of high-quality soy sauce to these ingredients.
Step 13. Stir the prepared Ranch sauce again and can be used to grease pizza crusts. Bon appetit!
Red pizza sauce like in a pizzeria
Red pizza sauce, like in a pizzeria, is a classic option, especially for meat pizza. The basis of red sauces are tomatoes in the form of crushed fresh tomatoes, canned in their own juice or in the form of tomato paste. To enhance the flavor, garlic, dried basil and oregano are added to the red sauce. In this recipe we prepare a sauce from tomato paste with the addition of fresh/dried tomatoes and onions.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Servings: 1.
Ingredients:
- Olive oil – 1 tbsp.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 2 cloves.
- Sun-dried tomatoes – 8 pcs. or fresh chopped - 2 tbsp.
- Dried oregano – 2 tsp.
- Dried basil – 1.5 tsp.
- White wine – ¼ tbsp.
- Tomato paste – 170 gr.
- Water – 1 tbsp.
- Salt - 2 chips.
- Green onion – 1 bunch.
- Ground black pepper – ¼ tsp.
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Cut the onion into small cubes and place in a frying pan.
Step 2. Add two cloves of garlic to the onion through a garlic press and mix everything.
Step 3. Simmer these vegetables in oil over low heat until translucent for 5 minutes.
Step 4. Then add sun-dried/fresh tomatoes cut into small pieces, but with sun-dried tomatoes the taste will be different.
Step 5. Add dried basil and oregano to the vegetables, because they are a classic seasoning for the sauce.
Step 6. Stir the fried vegetables with seasonings again and simmer for a couple of minutes so that they are saturated with oil and reveal their flavor.
Step 7. Then pour white wine into the frying pan, stir and let the sauce simmer briefly over medium heat.
Step 8. Make the fire minimal. Place tomato paste in a frying pan and pour a glass of clean water. The paste can be diluted with water in advance.
Step 9. Mix the sauce well with a whisk and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
Step 10. Towards the end of cooking, add salt and pepper to the sauce and adjust the taste as you wish.
Step 11. Transfer the prepared sauce to a separate bowl and cool. The sauce can be stored in a jar in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
Step 12. The finished red sauce can be spread on the crust and baked pizza with the chosen topping. Bon appetit!
Simple mayonnaise pizza sauce
Real pizza is not prepared with mayonnaise sauce, but it happens that you don’t have the time, desire or all the ingredients, then a recipe for a simple mayonnaise pizza sauce will help you out. It only requires three ingredients that you always have in the refrigerator, 5 minutes of time, a little seasoning, and it will turn out delicious. The sauce recipe is considered universal and is suitable not only for pizza.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Cooking time: 3 minutes.
Servings: 1.
Ingredients:
- Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
- Tomato paste – 3 tbsp.
- Butter – 1 tbsp.
- Garlic – 1 clove.
- Parsley - a bunch.
- Salt - to taste.
- Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking process:
Step 1. According to the recipe, measure out all the ingredients for the sauce. Melt a piece of butter in the microwave. Rinse the parsley and dry with a napkin.Peel the garlic.
Step 2. Then crush the garlic with a knife and chop finely.
Step 3. Chop the parsley into small pieces with a knife.
Step 4. Place the mayonnaise in a bowl for preparing the sauce and add tomato paste to it. For a tasty sauce, these ingredients must be of good quality.
Step 5. Then add chopped parsley and garlic to them and add salt and black pepper to your taste. Mix all ingredients well with a whisk and take a sample.
Step 6. Lastly, pour melted and slightly cooled butter into the sauce and mix everything again.
Step 7. Simple mayonnaise pizza sauce is ready. You can use it to grease crusts and bake pizza. This sauce goes well with other dishes, such as snacks. Bon appetit!
Sour cream sauce for pizza
Sour cream sauces for pizza are prepared according to different recipes and most often by mixing sour cream with herbs and spices. In this recipe we will prepare sour cream sauce differently: mix flour fried in oil with sour cream, similar to bechamel sauce. Sour cream sauce is prepared for pizza with chicken and mushrooms. The recipe is simple and can be customized with other ingredients to suit your taste.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 1.
Ingredients:
- Sour cream – 200 gr.
- Butter – 1.5 tbsp.
- Flour – 3 tbsp.
- Salt – 2 pinches.
- Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Heat a dry frying pan over medium heat. Pour flour into it and fry while stirring with a whisk until light creamy. Then turn off the heat and cool the flour slightly.
Step 2. Add butter to the flour in a frying pan, turn on the heat, melt the butter and mix well with the flour.
Step 3.Add sour cream to this mixture in small portions and, while stirring with a whisk, bring the sauce to a boil.
Step 4. Pour salt with black pepper and other spices to your taste into the boiled sauce, stir and simmer for several minutes over low heat until thickened. The prepared sour cream sauce can be immediately used to form pizza. If there are small lumps of flour left in the sauce, strain it through a sieve. Delicious and successful baking!
