You can make homemade Pizza Sauce with basic pantry ingredients, in just a few minutes, and it's so much better than store-bought.
Do you love pizza? Try my Wheat Pizza Dough, Pepperoni Pizza, Air Fryer Pizza, or Detroit-Style Pizza!
Why I love Homemade Pizza Sauce:
- Healthy – No artificial ingredients or additives, just good, classic ingredients from your pantry.
- Versatile – Use on my homemade pizza crust or wheat pizza crust, or as a dip for Calzones or Stromboli.
- Quick – Only 10 minutes and this easy pizza sauce recipe will take your pizza to the next level.
How to make Pizza Sauce:
Combine: Add oil to a saucepan over medium heat. Add remaining ingredients and stir well to combine. Simmer for at least 5-10 minutes, or up to 30.
Serve the best pizza sauce recipe as a dip or spread on a pizza dough and top with your favorite toppings.
Other Pizza Sauce Options:
- Alfredo Sauce
- BBQ Sauce
- Pesto
- Ranch
- Buffalo Sauce
- Peanut Sauce
Storing and Freezing Instructions:
You can store homemade sauce in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Freeze the sauce for up to 3 months, stored in a freezer safe container. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
Use this Sauce for:
- Air Fryer Pizza
- Wheat Pizza Dough
- Calzones
- Burrata Pizza
- Pizza Dough
- Detroit-Style Pizza
- Easy Grilled Pizza
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Recipe
Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce
Ingredients
- 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes , preferably San Marzano tomatoes
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1 clove garlic , minced
- 1/2 teaspoon Dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon Sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper , to taste
Instructions
- Add oil to a saucepan over medium heat. Add remaining ingredients and stir well to combine. Simmer for at least 5-10 minutes, or up to 30.
- Your homemade pizza sauce is ready to use and spread on pizza crust.
Notes
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I originally shared this post March 2019. Updated January 2022 and January 2024.
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I decided to make homemade sub bread 🥖, meatballs, and pizza sauce for some meatball subs. My sub bread is baking up beautifully in the oven now. (Fingers crossed 🤞) And this sauce smells SO good. I just plopped it right in with the meatballs on the stove top to simmer it all together for half an hour. I’m excited to try everything together. I feel like Martha Stewart today. Haha thanks for this recipe!
I updated my review to reflect that the recipe is incorrect. It states to use a 28 ounce can of tomatoes but leaves out the tomato paste entirely. Now my sauce is extremely soupy. I just removed my meatballs and had to double everything (except the tomatoes) to thicken the sauce and make it correct. Now I have tons and tons of sauce though. lol. The taste is good though. Just want to warn others and let you know the recipe needs fixed in your website. Thanks.
Made this, with the pizza dough. It was a hit with my kiddos. Definitely a keeper. I even did stuffed crust and brushed garlic butter on the outside. Mmm drooling.
Very tasty and easy to make. I froze the leftovers in an ice cube tray. In the future, I’ll use 4 ice cubes worth of sauce for a pizza.