What you need to make the sauce, main ingredients
You can make any pizza, be it Margherita or Four Cheese, using a variety of doughs, but the sauce always plays a decisive role in it.
It should be juicy, bright, quite rich, but at the same time not interrupt the taste of the dish itself, but only set it off.
Traditionally, it is customary to distinguish three types of sauces:
- Red is prepared on a tomato base. You can use both fresh and canned tomatoes for this. In the first case, it is better to choose sour varieties so that the taste of the filling is not bland. If you don’t have tomatoes on hand, you can use ready-made paste. The effect, of course, is not the same, but still, with some effort, the result will be quite decent.
- White sauce is not so popular on pizza, but it also has its connoisseurs. It is usually prepared with cream or soft cheese. It happens that kefir is added to the composition.
- Green sauce is a rarity in our pizzerias and on our tables. Usually this is a classic pesto based on basil, which gives the mass color. But there are other, more exotic options, which we will discuss below.
The first type of sauce is usually used on meat pizzas. It goes well with sausages, pork, bacon, and olives. Creamy dressing is often used to lubricate a dish with seafood - salmon, shrimp, mussels. It is also best added to pizza with mushrooms and vegetables. But cheeses and chicken are “friends” with both types of sauces. As for green, it is very self-sufficient in itself, and therefore does not combine with complex fillings. It can be supplemented with poultry, vegetables, fish, olives.
- Greens are always added to the sauce as additional ingredients. These are basil, cilantro, dill and other herbs.
- Can't do without hot pepper. Depending on your preferences, you can use regular ground pepper or a piece of real cayenne.
- By the way, speaking of pepper, we cannot forget about Bulgarian. Its delicate taste perfectly complements tomato dressings.
- Garlic is often added to sauces for added spice. You can take fresh or dried - it doesn’t matter which one is at hand. But, of course, if you have plenty to choose from, give preference to the young one. It's more flavorful.
- Onions are also a frequent guest in the dressing. It is usually cut into thin, almost transparent half rings. To eliminate a specific taste, onions are sometimes pickled.
- The sauce must contain oil. It should be neutral. It is better to take olive or sunflower, but refined.
- White sauces are prepared with the obligatory addition of butter and flour. Cream, sour cream, kefir, and cheeses of all kinds can also be added here.
- Don’t forget to add salt to the mixture so that it is not bland. Sometimes the sauce also contains a pinch of sugar.
Housewives love to add mayonnaise everywhere. This is not the best ingredient in a dish. With the same success, you can spread the pizza with ready-made tomato ketchup “Spicy” and not fool yourself.
Sauce recipes that are easy to make at home
So, there will probably be a decent set in the corners of the refrigerator, which will be enough for our purposes.
To make pizza sauce at home, we will need:
- selected vegetables (washed and peeled);
- knife and cutting board;
- saucepan or small saucepan;
- pan;
- blender;
- spatula.
All you have to do is decide on the type of filling and you can get started.
None of the proposed recipes are canonical. You can completely modify them, change them to suit your tastes and capabilities.
Or maybe some recipe will inspire you to create your own sauce.
Creamy mushroom sauce for pizza like in a pizzeria
Creamy mushroom sauce for pizza
This dressing will appeal to lovers of the aroma of mushrooms. If you have mushroom pizza, then mushroom sauce will highlight its taste. And be sure to cook meat pizza with this sauce. Now about how to make mushroom sauce for pizza with your own hands.
To prepare it you will need:
- Mushrooms (champignons are best) - 200 gr.
- Onion - 1/2 head
- Wheat flour - 1-2 tbsp. l.
- Milk/cream - 1 glass
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
- Butter - 50 gr.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
How to make mushroom pizza sauce like in a pizzeria:
- Mix both oils in a frying pan and add chopped onion, fry over medium heat.
- As soon as the onion has become transparent, turn up the heat and add the chopped mushrooms (you can chop the onions and mushrooms as you like, since we will be blending)
- After a golden crust appears on the mushrooms, add 1 tablespoon of flour and mix well.
- Pour in milk or cream, stirring and see how thick it is; add more flour if necessary.
- Grate the garlic and mix into the sauce, pepper and simmer for a couple of minutes, beat everything with a blender until smooth.
- Homemade white mushroom sauce for pizza is ready!
Classic sauce for Italian pizza
This recipe is a strict classic. It's simple and versatile, like a black Chanel little dress.
The ingredients you will need are the simplest:
- ripe tomatoes - 5 pieces;
- garlic - a couple of cloves;
- basil - sprig;
- butter - spoon;
- hot pepper and a little salt.
Fresh tomatoes can be replaced with canned ones. It is also permissible to add tomato paste into the filling if the vegetables themselves are sweet and without sourness. Strong, sour tomatoes do not need added paste. So how do you make pizza sauce?
- Tomatoes are placed peeled. To make the skin easy to remove, throw the fruit into boiling water for 15-30 seconds (depending on the variety), after making a cross-shaped cut on the “butt”.
- Cut the peeled tomatoes into halves or quarters and set aside temporarily to allow excess liquid to drain.
- Heat a frying pan, pour oil into it.
- Finely chop the garlic or put it through a garlic press and fry.
- Place the tomatoes in the pan and mash them with a fork until smooth. Reduce heat to medium.
- While the tomatoes are simmering, finely chop the basil and add it to the pan towards the end of the process.
- Remove the pan from the heat when the amount of tomato mixture has reduced by about three times. Rub it through a sieve and season with salt and pepper.
Traditional tomato sauce for pizza is ready - grease the crusts! It can be put in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, and left in the freezer for up to two months.
How to Make Marinara Sauce for Pizza
Another easy pizza sauce recipe is marinara sauce. It is prepared in literally 2 steps, and to prepare it you need a very small amount of ingredients: Method of preparation:
- Peel the tomatoes. To do this, make cross-shaped cuts and pour boiling water over the fruit. Let them sit, and then simply remove the peel.
- Cut the tomatoes into 4 parts, remove the seeds.
- Grind the rest to a puree. To do this, you can use a fine grater or a blender.
- Squeeze the garlic into the tomato puree, add herbs, salt and pepper. Mix well and, if necessary, strain off excess liquid. The sauce should not be watery.
Tomato sauce for pizza
If you plan to use a complex multi-component filling, then give preference to a simple sauce, for example, made from tomatoes alone.
- Cut the tomatoes into halves and place on a baking sheet. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper.
- Bake for a few minutes until done.
- Remove the skin from the tomatoes (it can be easily removed), chop them with a blender and transfer the tomato mass to a saucepan. Boil for just a few minutes - you're done!
Creamy pizza sauce
The best choice would be the classic Italian fettuccine dressing.
Ingredients:
- 2 glasses of heavy cream (you can take homemade);
- a glass of grated parmesan;
- a third of a glass of milk;
- 4 tablespoons butter (pre-melt);
- 2 tablespoons flour;
- garlic and green onions.
- salt and pepper.
Let's get started!
- Fry chopped garlic in butter until golden.
- Add cream and milk, stirring slowly, heat but do not let it boil.
- Add flour to make the mixture thicker. Depending on the fat content of the cream, its amount may vary, so add a little at a time. When the mass thickens, remove from heat.
- While the creamy sauce has not cooled, add grated Parmesan and chopped onion. Salt and sprinkle with black pepper.
Mix it thoroughly and use it on pizza, pasta or just on bread.
Cheese sauce for pizza - recipe like in a pizzeria
Everyone's favorite pizza cheese sauce is also easy to make at home. And it goes well with almost any pizza, except sea pizza. The creamy sauce for 4 cheese pizza is especially good.
To prepare it you will need:
- Cheese, preferably Parmesan - 100 gr.
- Butter - 2 tbsp. l.
- Milk/cream - 1 glass
- Wheat flour - 1 tbsp. l.
- Ground pepper - a pinch
How to make cheese sauce for pizza:
- First, fry the flour in butter over medium heat.
- Next, gradually pour in the milk, stirring constantly with a whisk.
- Add the finely grated cheese, stirring thoroughly until the cheese is completely dissolved.
- White cream cheese pizza sauce is ready!
If necessary, add salt, but at the very end, do not forget that the cheese is also salty. You can also make this pizza sauce with processed cheese and even cottage cheese.
Pizza sauce "white"
This is a very simple recipe that requires minimal cooking time. The taste of the finished filling is neutral, and therefore will suit absolutely any filling.
Prepare:
- meat broth - half a liter;
- butter - 40-50 grams;
- a couple of tablespoons of flour.
Please note that for meat fillings you will need meat broth, and for seafood, fish broth is suitable.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry the flour in it, adding a couple of tablespoons of broth.
- Add broth little by little to the thick mixture, stirring constantly.
- Let the mixture boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Strain the finished filling and immediately brush the cake.
Green pizza sauce
Mediterranean cooks often use pesto as a pizza sauce. Fresh herbs, a thick nutty aroma, a creamy, delicate structure - all this gives a wonderful taste to both meat and fish. Pine nuts are expensive these days, so below is an adapted, more budget-friendly analogue of the green “coating” for the yeast leaf.
We stock the following products:
- 0.5 cups sunflower seeds (any nuts);
- 1/4 tbsp. olive oil;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 0.5 tsp hot dried pepper;
- 1 bunch of cilantro or basil;
- salt - as needed.
Making:
- We wash the greens under a cold shower, dry them and chop them as desired.
- Remove the husks from the garlic.
- Place all ingredients, except oil, in a blender bowl and blend.
- We switch the device to low speed and continue to beat, while simultaneously pouring in the oil in a thin stream.
When the consistency of the dressing reaches homogeneity, the pizza sauce is considered ready. Apply the required amount to the cakes, and divide the excess into portions and store in the freezer.
Tomato paste pizza sauce
There is no tomato, there is a snowstorm outside, and there is only tomato paste in the refrigerator? Put her to work!
- 2 spoons of pasta;
- spoon of oregano;
- two pinches of red pepper;
- a little olive oil.
You can add garlic, herbs to the sauce and generally replace tomatoes with it in any of the recipes described. But the proposed option is an excellent basis for the first experiment.
- Place the paste in a bowl and dilute with a little water.
- Add dry oregano, oil and red pepper.
- Add salt and mix the mixture thoroughly until smooth.
You can start shaping the pizza. Since we've taken the simple route, you can safely add sour cream and a little mustard - you'll get an excellent soft sauce.
Ketchup and mayonnaise pizza sauce recipe
Popularly, a simple sauce recipe consisting of mayonnaise and ketchup is called ketchonese. Get creative and make the perfect addition to pizza.
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For preparation you will need:
- ketchup (160 – 200 g);
- mayonnaise (120 – 150 g);
- basil (5 g);
- garlic (2 – 5 cloves);
- cilantro (10 g);
- suneli hops (one teaspoon);
- salt, spices to taste.
Instead of ketchup, you can use tomato paste. It will need to be salted and sugared separately. Everything is prepared simply, without cooking. Let's begin!
Step 1. Ketchup is mixed with mayonnaise in a separate container.
Step 2. Without ceasing to stir, add suneli hops so that the spice is evenly mixed with ketchonese.
Attention! Sunele hops can be replaced with vinegar. Whoever likes it.
Step 3. Mix separately in a blender:
- garlic;
- cilantro;
- basil.
Step 4. Add the mixed ingredients to the future sauce.
Step 5. Salt, sugar and pepper to taste.
Step 6. Transfer to separate well-washed jars and let it brew in the refrigerator for 2 - 3 hours.
If you leave it for a day, the taste will become even richer. It can be used not only as a component for pizza. It goes well with meat, fish and other dishes.
Sour cream sauce for pizza
If you plan to put mushrooms and chicken on the pizza, then the sauce should only be sour cream! This is a classic combination of flavors, a win-win and everyone's favorite.
- sour cream - a glass;
- melted butter - 1.5 tablespoons;
- flour - 3 spoons;
- two pinches of salt, pepper.
This is a traditional recipe, but you can change it up by adding two hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard. An excellent addition would be herbs, garlic and a spoonful of regular tomato paste.
- Pour flour into a frying pan and fry. Let cool.
- Add the butter to the flour and heat again until it melts.
- Slowly add sour cream, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil.
- Add pepper and season. Cook for a few minutes and strain before using.
Cheese sauce for pizza
Another pizza sauce recipe that might even make it easier to prepare. How so? It's simple - the fact is that the cheese sauce is so rich that you can even avoid adding additional cheese. So, you need to prepare the following products: Step-by-step recipe for making the sauce:
- Beat the separated yolks with a whisk or fork. It is not necessary to whip into foam. Grate the cheese onto a fine grater.
- Heat the milk over the fire. Do not boil - just heat and set aside for now.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, add flour and fry the mixture thoroughly. It is important to achieve a golden color and a nutty aroma. It is important not to burn the flour, otherwise it will start to taste bitter.
- Pour hot milk into the butter and flour, bring the mixture to a boil.
- Leave the mixture over very low heat, add cheese and yolks. Once the ingredients are added, the heat can be turned off. Mix everything well, add salt and pepper. Mix. It is better to mix with a whisk, it is important to do this thoroughly so that there are no lumps and a homogeneous mass.
That’s it, the sauce can be cooled and used to grease the future most delicious pizza.
Garlic sauce for pizza (Caesar)
There are so many options for garlic sauce. You can simply press the garlic through a press, pour it into a jar of olive oil, add salt and let it brew for 3-5 hours. Refined and European. Well, we like it fatter and angrier.
- garlic - half a head;
- sour cream - 6 spoons;
- olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
- lemon juice.
There is no need to stew or fry anything. Simply crush the garlic in a mortar, add salt, oil and lemon juice. Whisk. Then gradually add rich sour cream and continue whisking until the sauce comes out light and airy.
By the way, French aioli is also suitable as an excellent garlic dressing for pizza. Not all laurels go to the Italians. Grind the raw yolk with garlic, add butter, whisking. Add salt, pepper, add a little vinegar and water. Beat well.
Pizza sauce recipe
You can prepare the sauce for greasing pizza very quickly, but you can also complicate the preparation. We will start with the simplest and most understandable sauce, in our opinion, which will suit almost any pizza. It can be used as a substitute for classic ketchup - and yes, of course, we are talking about red tomato sauce. Let's prepare the necessary ingredients.
Ingredients
- ripe fresh tomatoes – 0.5 kg;
- garlic – 3-4 cloves;
- olive oil – 60-70 ml;
- salt – 1 tsp. (without slide);
- sugar – 2 tbsp. l.;
- ground black pepper – 0.25 tsp. (less possible, to taste);
- dried oregano – 1 tbsp. l.;
- dried basil – 1 tbsp. l.
Unusual green sauce
Let's consider two options - truly European and oriental, Thai. Both are green, but completely different from each other.
In Italy they love pesto and use it, among other things, as a sauce for pizza.
There are only five ingredients:
- grated parmesan - 150 grams;
- vegetable (preferably olive) oil - 150 ml;
- peeled pine nuts (can be replaced with walnuts) - 4 tablespoons;
- garlic - a couple of cloves;
- basil - a lot!
Cooking takes a couple of minutes. Grate the cheese, grind the herbs with garlic and nuts in a mortar into a homogeneous paste. Mix the resulting mass with cheese and butter - your pesto is ready to go on the crust.
Thai sauce has an emerald green color and a very unusual taste. The ingredients are also specific. But if you want to really surprise your guests, believe me, this is your choice.
So, prepare:
- green chili - 4 pieces;
- onion;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- cilantro, lemon zest - a spoon;
- butter - spoon;
- cumin, turmeric, cinnamon - a teaspoon each.
Unripe chili is not as hot as red chili, but if you find it too hot, replace some of it with green bell pepper.
- Peel the pepper and cut it. Grind the onion and garlic with herbs in a blender.
- Place all prepared ingredients into a saucepan, add oil and simmer for a couple of minutes.
- At the end, add spices and leave the mixture to infuse.
Pizza sauce "Margherita"
Classic Margarita with a crispy crust and thin dough. What could be better? Just the sauce for her. Previously, this recipe was kept in the strictest confidence. Today it is available to any housewife. You just need to have straight hands, products from the supermarket and a good mood.
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Let's go to the grocery store:
- tomatoes (550 g);
- olive oil (25 ml);
- garlic (2 cloves);
- basil (1 teaspoon);
- oregano (1 teaspoon);
- salt and spices to taste.
When all the ingredients are collected, you can start cooking. Let's start with tomatoes.
Step 1. All the stems of the tomato must be removed. Next, take a sharp knife and make a cross-shaped cut in the “butt” area.
Step 2. Heat the water and put all the cut fruits in boiling water for one minute. We don't cook.
Step 3. Take another container with cold water and transfer all the fruits there. After this procedure, the skins should be well separated from the pulp.
Step 4. When the tomatoes have cooled, drain the water and peel them.
Step 5. Remove the core and pour them into a blender.
Step 6. Turn on the stove. Set the fire to high. Wait for the pan to get hot and pour in olive oil.
Step 7: When the oil is hot, add 2 whole cloves of garlic. Fry it for flavor.
Step 8. Add grated tomatoes.
Step 9. Reduce the heat to low and leave to simmer for about 40 minutes.
Step 10. Do not leave the stove and stir periodically so that the tomatoes do not burn. Do not cover the pan with a lid.
Step 11. The main thing is that all the liquid evaporates and the slurry becomes thick.
Step 12. Add salt and spices.
Step 13. Mix well again and simmer for another 5 - 10 minutes.
That's it, the sauce is ready. The garlic must be removed. We won't need him anymore.
Quick recipe
Guests are on the doorstep and every minute counts? Write down a quick recipe!
You will need:
- can of prepared tomatoes;
- garlic;
- vegetable oil;
- any herbs.
We cook quickly. Cut the garlic into slices and brown in oil. Place the tomatoes and mash with a fork. While the tomato-garlic mixture is “gurgling,” finely chop basil, cilantro, dill, or whatever else you find. We pour everything into the frying pan, add salt, cover with a lid and leave to cook while we prepare the filling and dough.
Gourmet Red Wine Sauce Recipe
Quick Fill is great.
Now let’s add some delights for real gourmets:
- half a kilo of tomato;
- a glass of red wine;
- vegetable oil;
- onion, carrot, celery;
- garlic;
- thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary - a teaspoon each.
To prepare this sauce, first finely chop the vegetables and grind the herbs in a mortar.
- In a heated frying pan, fry the vegetables in oil.
- Add the garlic, and all the greens at once - let the vegetables thoroughly permeate the vegetables with aroma.
- After a couple of minutes, pour the wine over the mixture.
- While the wine is heating, peel the tomatoes and chop them finely. Pour into the pan.
- Simmer for another half hour, add salt and leave to simmer under the lid.
Before use, you can grind the mass in a blender until smooth.
Mushroom sauce for pizza
This filling option is perfect for meat or mushroom pizza. Delicate and fragrant, but unobtrusive.
Components:
- ¼ kg of champignons;
- 250 ml heavy (35% or more) cream;
- a couple of tablespoons of flour;
- dill and a pinch of salt.
If you want, add garlic or sautéed onions to the sauce.
- Chop the mushrooms and throw them into the pan. Simmer until the juice comes out.
- Add cream and bring mixture to a boil.
- Add flour little by little until the mixture thickens.
- At the end, add salt and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
It’s better to grind the whole mass in a blender so that the mushroom taste is somewhere on the periphery, without interrupting the main components of the pizza.
Neapolitania sauce
This sauce smells like the sun of the southern coast of Italy, where one of the largest cities in the country, Naples, is located. Pastas and pizzas with the addition of the classic tomato sauce and onions are incredibly popular here. We call it “Neapolitania” or “Neapolitano”. To prepare you will need:
- half a kilo of fresh tomatoes;
- large onion;
- clove of garlic;
- 4-5 tablespoons of oil;
- basil;
- salt, a pinch of sugar and black pepper.
Traditionally, we start cooking by peeling the tomatoes.
- Chop the onion as finely as you can; it should completely “disperse” in the tomato mass, leaving only its taste.
- Grind the garlic into a paste so that the pieces do not end up in the finished sauce.
- Cut the tomatoes.
- Chop the basil. If desired, you can add oregano to it (oregano, in our opinion).
- Heat the frying pan, pour in the oil and add the onions. Fry until golden. Add the garlic and sauté for another minute.
- Place the tomatoes in the pan and simmer for up to half an hour, until the excess liquid is gone and the fruits themselves have completely turned into porridge.
- Season the sauce with herbs and salt, add a little sugar and ground black pepper to taste.
Leave the sauce to steep under the lid for 10 minutes and you can use it.
Homemade white pizza sauce
When we talk about pizza sauce, we all imagine tasty and juicy tomatoes or ketchup. But it can be prepared without using tomatoes. The development of cooking has made it possible to discover new recipes and unique ingredients. And today they will serve to create this masterpiece.
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For preparation you will need:
- butter (50 g);
- garlic (3 cloves);
- flour (3 tablespoons);
- milk (1 glass);
- hard cheese (100 g);
- basil (2 teaspoons);
- spices and salt to taste.
As you can see, the products are very simple and available in any store. We shop, unpack and start cooking.
Step 1. Three hard cheese on a grater.
Attention! You can use any variety, but I recommend Parmesan.
Step 2. Squeeze the garlic through a garlic press. If you don’t have a tool, you can use improvised means or cut the slices very finely.
Step 3. Melt the butter in a deep saucepan. The fire should be slightly higher than minimum. But not average.
Step 4: Once the butter has melted, add the garlic. Mix well. Cook for about 1 minute.
Step 5. After a minute, add flour.
Step 6. Everything should be mixed until smooth.
Step 7. Pour in milk. Mix again.
Step 8. Add salt and other spices and basil.
Step 9. Grated cheese. Let's get in the way again.
Attention! Italian chefs pay a lot of attention to consistency. Lumps, pores, cavities are excluded. Everything should be perfectly balanced and not liquid. Like puree.
The result should be a thick, homogeneous mass. The sauce is ready. The main thing when preparing a dish is to mix each stage of adding an ingredient and do not turn off the heat. If the grated cheese is not completely melted, it will finish in the oven on the dough.
Vegetable sauce
A spicy mixture of vegetables complements the taste of the meat filling well.
- 3 meaty tomatoes;
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers;
- 250 grams of champignons;
- garlic, a couple of cloves;
- carrots, onion;
- a third of a glass of sour cream.
Prepare all the ingredients: peel and cut the tomatoes, cucumbers, champignons, finely chop the onion and garlic, grate the carrots.
- Fry the champignons, add onions and carrots to them.
- When the vegetables are half cooked, add tomatoes and cucumbers to them.
- Pour sour cream over the entire mixture and bring to a boil. At the very end, add garlic, salt and pepper.
You can leave the sauce in this form, but it is better to chop everything thoroughly with a fork, mixer or blender.
Pizza sauce made from mushrooms and milk cream
Crispy sheet with creamy mushroom filling - simply delicious! To prepare you will need a blender.
Let's buy:
- 200 gr. champignons, boletus or chanterelles (thawed ones are also suitable);
- 200 ml cream (from 20%);
- 100 gr. sweet butter 82.5%;
- 1 tbsp. l. premium wheat flour;
- salt and pepper - as needed.
Let's get down to business:
Carefully! Forest beauties must be cleaned in advance and boiled for 30-40 minutes after they boil. This will protect you from unpleasant health surprises.
- We simmer the washed, chopped mushrooms in butter (substitution with other fats is not acceptable) until a golden hue appears on them. Sprinkle the pieces with flour and grind thoroughly.
- Slowly pour in the cold cream and at the same time rub the mixture with a silicone spatula.
- Salt and, if necessary, pepper. Boil for 8-10 minutes over low heat, cool slightly and beat. It is better to do this not with a whisk, but with a mixer or blender.
A delicious, fluffy pizza sauce would also go well with spaghetti and meatballs.
Sizzling hot tomato sauce
If you want something hot, then prepare a fiery pour. To do this, add chili pepper crushed in a mortar and, if desired, ginger to a regular tomato sauce (according to the recipe given above) during the cooking stage. To make the mass thicker, boil 2-3 hard-boiled eggs and add the yolks to the tomato mass. Stir well.