Recently, I just can’t get enough pizza! There is something about the combination of dough, tomatoes and cheese that is just so good!
This last weekend, I made a pizza sauce in the crockpot. It just cooks on low all day long, and then is ready when you are making the pizza! I love thick, chunky tomato sauce, yum! This really is more of a marinara sauce – so it would be good on pasta, or even as a dipping sauce!
Crock Pot Pizza Sauce
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3 cans (28 oz) whole, peeled, tomatoes
1 can (5 oz) tomato paste
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp italian seasoning
1 tbsp oregano
3 bay leaves
2 tbsp sugar
salt to taste
Place the whole tomatoes and tomato paste in the crock pot.
Add in the rest of the ingredients. (Note: garlic power can be substituted for the minced garlic if you like).
Let cook on low for 6-8 hours, stirring occasionally. Every time you stir it, break up the larger tomatoes into smaller pieces.
It will start to thicken – which is what you want. I propped the lid of the crockpot open to let it thicken even more.
Steamy and delicious!
You can blend with an immersion blender if you would like a smoother sauce, or leave chunky!
At the end, you will have a lot of pizza sauce. You can freeze it in smaller portions; however, I chose to can it!
I spent $1.34 per can of the whole tomatoes, and 99 cents for the tomato paste – the other ingredients I had on hand. So, for all of these jars of sauce, I figure it was just over $5. Not too shabby!
I made Biz’s Deep Dish Pizza this week to use our sauce. It was amazing!
I love a little sweetness in my pizza sauce, this looks delicious! I really need to make Biz’s pizza…it looks amazing. Have a great week!
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You should make it … so good!
First Jacky, and now you gave me a shout out – thanks!! I never thought to make pizza sauce in the crock pot – can’t wait to try it!
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Thanks for the inspiration Biz! That pizza was amazing!
I love the simplicity of this Jane. When you break down the price like that it sure makes sense to give this a try. My vegetable loathing child for some reason requested my homemade tomato soup last night so I know he would love this on a homemade pizza. Anything I can set in the crockpot and forget until it is finished is perfect for me. Thanks!!
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It really was super easy. I hope you can get your son to eat some veggies … tomato soup is a good place to start!
Oh that recipe is so easy but looks so yummy! Bet it has a nice rich taste to it, your finished pizza looks great.
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It really did have a great taste!
We make our own pizza all the time and for awhile we tried to make our own sauce–partly because of all the sugars and stuff added to canned sauce. But it became too much work on top of making the pizza from scratch. I love the idea of making a bunch and canning it, though!
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It really was easy, and so nice to have it on hand!
I’ve started to get really excited about canning. I made some vanilla rum apple butter, some cranberry relish,and some failed cranberry experiments (like cranberry orange marmalade and cranberry jelly, both I did my own way and I learned until I know what I’m doing I really need to follow a recipe-lol). So anyway, canning my own sauce sounds SO fun. I love that you don’t have to take up freezer space, which is what I’ve done in the past. This sounds so good, I love how chunky it is, and I could just eat a bowl with a spoon and a grilled cheese sandwich right now!
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Canning is so fun – I love it! Vanilla rum vanilla butter sounds awesome! I love the feeling of having shelves full of stuff — it makes me feel so self sufficient. My husband always jokes that if the world ends, at least we’ll have some food
This is a great recipe, mine is similar, I don’t use the bay leaves, but I do add fennel to mine, and sugar to cut the acid from the tomato’s
Fennel does sound good in it!
YUM!! I always love your recipes!! I just need to find a good GF crust to put that on!
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I love to can! This is perfect for it. It also gives me an idea to can some spaghetti sauce
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$5 for all that sauce– you did well. My one onion-hating offspring would appreciate the fact that there are no onions in it.
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What a great pizza sauce! I do love pizza, but very seldom using tomato base sauce because it takes so long to make it right. I love that you can yours! What a great idea!
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mmm… yummy.