Pizza Sauce (Basic Tomato)

Pizza making can be easy or difficult, depending on which type of method is used. It can be really simple if you just buy ready pizza dough and sprinkle ingredients and cheese. Anybody can do that but have you ever thought of making a pizza from scratch all by yourself? Thought he process is troublesome and a whole load of work but the end result is definitely satisfying and accomplished.

I decided to make my own pizza dough, pizza tomato sauce and marinated pork. I will be writing three recipes separately. If you follow closely with what I have done, I assure you a satisfying and really awesome pizza that you can never get from outside stalls. ;)

In this post, I'll be writing about the pizza sauce only. The next post will be on the marinated pork.

Pizza Sauce (Basic Tomato)

INGREDIENTS:

2 ripen tomatoes 

Half an onion
5 garlic
1 - 2 tablespoons of water
Sufficient Hexa brand - mixed herbs
Sufficient salt
Sufficient pepper
Sufficient Maggie tomato ketchup

1. Remove the skin of tomatoes, onion and garlic. Cut them into smaller pieces.
2. Add some water and blend the ingredients until smooth. 
3. Pour into a sauce pan with medium low fire until half of the moisture evaporates. 
4. Add in the mixed herbs, salt, pepper and tomato ketchup in sufficient amount according to individual's preference taste for seasoning. 
5. Continue cooking the sauce until it slightly thickens to the right consistency. 
6. Remove from heat and let it cool to be used later. 

Remarks: 

• I did not measure the seasoning ingredients because I was relying on my taste bud. I remembered my sauce was quite salty but trust me, it did not taste salty at all when it combined altogether with the other pizza ingredients after baked. Therefore, I'd advise you to make your sauce slightly heavy in taste so that it gives the right taste to the final pizza product. 
• After the sauce has cooled, I used a plastic wrap to cover the top and keep in the meat tray to be refrigerated for about 4 - 5 days. It is still edible but not recommended to be kept for too long since food is always good to eat while fresh. 
• The tomato ketchup is just to give your sauce a nicer red colour. You can choose not to include as well if you are happy with the light pink guava colour of the original tomato blended paste. 
• It is a MUST to use the HEXA mixed herbs to obtain the great taste of pizza tomato sauce. 
• Oh did I mention no oil is used at all? Haha - yes, no oil at all. 

This is the HEXA mixed herbs, just in case if you wonder how the packaging looks like.