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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 1800s because people thought they were poisonous. Now, however, tomato-based pizza sauce is considered an essential part of most types of pizza. Want to make it at home? Here's the way to get that great "pizzeria" taste in your sauce, with all the "what"s and "how"s. This recipe is for those who want a quick yet improved pizza sauce, using tomato sauce and sugar.

Source and licence

"Basic Pizza Sauce" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Basic_Pizza_Sauce, revision 4540889), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Basic_Pizza_Sauce&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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What was changed: Reformatted by FoodByNation from the wiki page: ingredients and steps extracted, links and templates removed, diet notes detected from the ingredients. This adaptation is also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. After rolling out dough, ladle on sauce as directed by the pizza recipe.
  2. 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.
  3. Drizzle with olive oil if desired.