Description
Rustic Neapolitan pizza sauce blends San Marzano tomatoes with fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil. Chefs from Naples craft this simple yet remarkable sauce, ensuring pure Mediterranean flavors dance across homemade pizza crusts you’ll savor.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 can (28 ounces / 794 grams) San Marzano tomatoes
Seasoning Ingredients:
- 1–2 teaspoons sea salt
Garnish and Optional Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) extra virgin olive oil
- A few leaves fresh basil
Instructions
- Empty whole San Marzano tomatoes into a spacious mixing vessel, preparing for manual transformation.
- Gently disintegrate tomatoes with clean hands, creating a rustic texture with slight irregularities and minimal liquid.
- Sprinkle sea salt across the surface, thoroughly integrating for balanced seasoning throughout the sauce.
- Delicately tear fresh basil leaves into small fragments, distributing evenly across tomato mixture to infuse aromatic herbaceous notes.
- Enhance the sauce’s richness by introducing a gentle stream of extra virgin olive oil, stirring to incorporate a luxurious, silky dimension.
Notes
- Crush tomatoes gently to maintain a rustic, authentic texture that captures the essence of traditional Neapolitan cooking.
- Choose high-quality San Marzano tomatoes for their sweet flavor and low acidity, which are crucial to creating an exceptional pizza sauce.
- Fresh basil adds a vibrant, aromatic note that elevates the sauce’s flavor profile, bringing a burst of freshness to every bite.
- Skip the olive oil if you prefer a lighter sauce, or use it sparingly to enhance the tomatoes’ natural richness without overwhelming the delicate flavor.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Lunch, Dinner, Appetizer
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
- Calories: 35 kcal
- Sugar: 5 g
- Sodium: 300 mg
- Fat: 2 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1.7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 6 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg