Simple Pizza Sauce or Marinara (with meat sauce and mushrooms)

[Mike Nolan]

This is a simple pizza sauce recipe that I've been using for my sheet pan pizzas. This makes enough sauce for 3 15x21 sheet pan pizzas, about 7 ounces per pizza. It freezes well.

1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
1 4 ounce can tomato paste

To this I add the liquid from a 15 ounce can of diced tomatoes, which is about two tablespoons. If I don't have that, I add 2 tablespoons of water. (The diced tomatoes will go on the pizza later on.)

1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon powdered marjoram

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes.

When making the pizza, I spoon the sauce onto the pizza in several places, then use a small pastry brush to spread the sauce around the dough.

To turn this into a marinara sauce for spaghetti I use:

1 15 ounce can tomato sauce
1 4 ounce can tomato paste
1 15 ounce can diced tomatoes (juice included)
2 4 ounce cans mushroom stems and pieces (juice included)
1 pound of ground beef, browned and drained
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon powdered marjoram

Cook as above. Serves 4-6.

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