A simple pizza sauce using easy to buy ingredients. Use on your favourite pizza base and make it in double batches to freeze for convenience.
Place EVOO in small saucepan
Add onion, garlic, basil and oregano
Fry on medium heat for 2 minutes
Add tomatoes and sugar
Simmer without a lid for 20 minutes, stirring regularly until liquid has slightly reduced to a thick paste consistency
Use as a sauce for your favourite pizza base
Top with your favourite foods such as cheese, spinach, capsicum, mushrooms, etc
Servings 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 71
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 4.90g8%
- Saturated Fat 0.73g4%
- Sodium 69.66mg3%
- Total Carbohydrate 4.64g2%
- Dietary Fiber 2.20g9%
- Sugars 4.23g
- Protein 1.16g3%
- Vitamin A 12.17%
- Vitamin C 30.91%
- Calcium 3.88%
- Iron 3.89%
- Vitamin B12 0.0%
- Iodine 0.95%
- Magnesium 4.31%
- Zinc 4.50%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Onions and garlic are known as a pre-biotic which help promote the growth of good gut bacteria.
Tomatoes are full of lycopene which is an anti-oxidant. Anti-oxidants help to neutralise free radicals which cause damage to cells by oxidation. Eating a diet high in anti-oxidants helps to reduce the risk of disease such as heart disease and cancer. Tomatoes cooked and served with EVOO improves absorption of lycopene as it is a fat soluble compound.
Ingredients
Directions
Place EVOO in small saucepan
Add onion, garlic, basil and oregano
Fry on medium heat for 2 minutes
Add tomatoes and sugar
Simmer without a lid for 20 minutes, stirring regularly until liquid has slightly reduced to a thick paste consistency
Use as a sauce for your favourite pizza base
Top with your favourite foods such as cheese, spinach, capsicum, mushrooms, etc