Canned tomatoes vary in salt content, so season the sauce with just a pinch of salt to start, and then gradually add more to taste. When seasoning with the red wine vinegar, add just enough to make the flavor really sparkle; the sauce shouldn’t taste tangy.–Brigit Binns
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Who woulda thunk that a homemade pizza sauce could be so silken, so simple, so toss-out-every-other-sauce satiating? Yet everyone who tried this recipe commented on how uncommonly lovely this sauce is, whatever the pizza creation they teamed it with, whether a plain pie or a mammoth meatball monstrosity. One even went so far as to describe it as “silky but not overpowering in flavor.” But don’t take our word for it. Taste for yourself.
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How can something so simple be so good? And how can a tomato sauce be so good when it’s not cooked at all? The answer to both of these riveting questions is, “Because it is.” Make this and taste it. Of course, you need to use top-quality canned crushed tomatoes. I waited to add the water to the sauce until after I tasted it. After tasting the sauce, I didn’t add the water. I wanted the full-on tomato taste. I could eat this sauce on its own with a spoon. (Actually, I did.) I made a double batch of this sauce. We used it for pizzas and also to dress a batch of meatballs that I made a couple days later. This sauce is a winner.
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This makes a great pizza sauce. I did not add the water and am glad I didn’t. I think the water would make it too watery. I had enough sauce for 8 pizzas using Jim Lahey’s dough recipe x 2. The sauce kept in the fridge for over a week with no problem. I didn’t have crushed tomatoes but some whole canned tomatoes with basil which I crushed by hand. Definitely easy and worth making again. Yes, who would have thought a no cook sauce would be so good.
Sagar, that’s excellent! I think canned whole tomatoes have more liquid than crushed tomatoes, which is why you thought it would be too watery. But what matters most is you liked it, and it works!