Move over, former favorite pizza sauce recipe; there’s a new homemade pizza sauce in town and it’s a 5-minute, no-cook pizza sauce from fresh tomatoes. It’s fresher, faster, and easier, and it rivals the sauce you’ll find at just about any pizza place in town.
Seriously.
There will always be a special place in our hearts for that other pizza sauce recipe, and we still still make it often. That one cooks low and slow, bubbling away to concentrated pizza sauce perfection. And it’s great.
But this one. This one, my friends … this is the way to go if you have 1) limited time, 2) limited patience, 3) a hangry family, 4) fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes coming out of your ears, and 5) lots more tomatoes on your windowsill that’ll also be ripe in mere days. The pressure!
That’s five good reasons for 5-Minute No-Cook Fresh Tomato Pizza Sauce. Here’s a sixth: It’s frickin’ delicious!
With just a handful of ingredients and a whir (or stir), you’ll have fresh homemade pizza sauce on hand. To make it super easy and super fast, a high-powered blender is your best bet. I use my beloved Vitamix. However! If you have a smaller blender or even no blender at all, this pizza sauce is still possible, so stick with me.
Fresh tomatoes (peel on, seeds in – no need to bother removing either), tomato paste, garlic, oregano, a little olive oil, a couple dashes of salt and pepper. Some fresh basil if you have any and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes if you like your sauce to have a little heat, but they’re both totally optional. And then all you do is throw your ingredients into the pitcher of the blender and puree. Or, if you don’t have a blender, it’s still totally doable – just mince the garlic and chop your tomatoes as fine as you like and then mix in a bowl.
You’ll never believe how easy it is to make a fresh tomato pizza sauce that rivals your favorite pizza place. Yep, I love our low-and-slow recipe, but this new option is kind of a pizza night game-changer for us.
I like to slather it on thick and then only go with a light sprinkle of cheese. Counting calories and all that. Not that I notice or care, because basically I’m all like GIVE ME ALL THE PIZZA SAUCE!
So whaddya say? Let’s go fresh.
Other ways to amp up Pizza Night
Use this sauce recipe with any of these other homemade pizza ideas. Try this One-Hour Rosemary Beer Pizza Dough from The Beeroness (so good!) :: Or how about smothering some on this low-carb, gluten-free Zucchini Pizza Crust from Recipe Girl?! :: Bored with plain ol’ pizza? (Is that possible?) How about some pizza nachos or pizza quesadillas?! :: For even faster homemade pizzas, how about these super-quick veggie pita pizzas from A Couple Cooks?
Pizza Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh tomatoes (3-4 medium, quartered)
- 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon clover honey or granulated sugar
- 2 medium cloves garlic*
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (plus more to taste)
- Few turns fresh ground pepper
- 2-3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil (optional)
- Pinch crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to the pitcher of a blender. Blend until completely pureed. Add additional salt and pepper to taste (I usually go with a full teaspoon salt). Spread on pizza crust; add toppings and bake as desired.
- If you don’t have a blender, chop the fresh tomatoes and finely mince the garlic, then add them along with the other ingredients to a bowl. Stir until combined, taste, and add additional salt and pepper if desired.
- Keeps refrigerated in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
I’m so glad you’re here! I’m a vegetarian home cook, certified plant-based pro, and mom. I’m married to an enthusiastic carnivore, and my mission is to achieve peace in the kitchen – one tasty recipe at a time. These days, I also try not to ask to speak to the manager.
5 minutes?! I’m obsessed! I always over-think pizza sauce, but really I feel like pizza is all about the crust and toppings anyway. No need to cook a sauce for daaaaaayz on end when it’s just going to be slathered in melty cheese anyway. LOVE this 5 minute sauce and will definitely be employing your tactics for all my football watching and pizza eating forever and ever amen!
Thank you so much for this timely post! I have some tomatoes in my kitchen that I have been meaning to cook down into sauce. I have a Vita-Mix and limited time so I’m trying this one today. Pinning, too! Thanks so much!
This is the perfect quick recipe to keep tucked away for our summer of pizza! I love making homemade pizza, but I always feel let down when I slather my beautiful dough with store bought sauce – no longer! Now I can whizz one up while the dough is resting 🙂
Love this idea Kare, thank you for sharing!
You’ve still got fresh tomatoes weighing you down? Man I wish I could take some of those off your hands! Nary a fresh tomato to be seen in these parts anymore. I wonder if canned plum tomatoes would work for a similar sauce? I’ll have to test it out and report back!
I did at the time I wrote this post, but then we had a few gnarly cold days and all my remaining tomatoes went south in a hurry. So sad. Yes, please do report back on how canned tomatoes work!
I just made this and it is so amazing! Thank you
This 5-Minute No-Cook Fresh Tomato Pizza Sauce is amazingly, beautiful and delicious. Thanks for this outstanding simple recipe.
Thanks, Mark, I’m so glad you like it! 🙂
This looks great, will definitely be trying it out this weekend! I was wondering though, approximately how much sauce would this recipe make?
This one is definately the quickest and tastiest pizza sauce ever!
Can I freeze this sauce and is there a way to keep it completely raw? The tomato paste is cooked, maybe sun dried tomatoes?
Sounds delicious! Would it freeze well?
Can this sauce be frozen and used later?
Can I freeze it?
Could you use a nutri bullet?
Can this be frozen if you LOTS of fresh tomatoes to use?
This is a fantastic recipe, really quick, easy to make but so tasty with authentic Italian flavours. Thanks very much for this recipe!!
Thank you so much for your comment and review!
Can’t wait to try this. Does this freeze well? Thank you!
Yes, for sure!
Tried it today and it turned out amazing !! I didn’t have can tomato paste on hand so substituted it with ketchup 😜! Still tasted better than other pizza sauces I tried !! Thanks for sharing this simple and quick yet delicious pizza sauce recipe ever !!
Nigella Lawson recommended using naan bread for pizza and this evening I made naan bread pizza with your no-cook fresh tomato pizza sauce, sautéed red onion and mushrooms, topped with plenty of mozzarella cheese. Cooked in the oven at 220°C for five minutes. It was absolutely delicious. This no cook tomato pizza sauce is so good, it’s really flavourful and tomatoey. I will always use this sauce for pizza from now on. (And naan bread is really good for pizza base)