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A quarter wedge of pizza with marinara sauce, mushroom and cheese on a black plate. Sitting on a silver metal table with a pink flowery table cloth.
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Pizza marinara sauce

To make a really good pizza, focus on the sauce. That is my opinion any way. Create the perfect sauce, then it doesn’t matter what the rest of it is. The sauce will lift your pizza.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Resting time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 50 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: baking, pizza, tomatoes
Servings: 4 portions

Ingredients

Pizza dough

  • 7 g dry yeast
  • 350 g water
  • 200 g oat flour
  • 400 g white flour
  • 2 tsp salt

Marinara base

  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 100 g water
  • 200 g passata
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce

Instructions

Pizza dough

  • Mix water and dry yeast with a wooden spoon until solved.
  • Add in oat flour, white flour and salt, keep stirring with wooden spoon until thickens.
  • Use your hands to kneed together until forms a dough.
  • Put on baking table and kneed for another 10 mins. If using a machine this step will of course go much quicker!
  • Let rise under a towel in a warm kitchen for 60 minutes.
  • In the mean time, prepare your red or white sauce base and any toppings used.

Marinara sauce

  • Peel and mince garlic, fry in a little bit of vegetable oil, until fragrant.
  • Add all other ingredients and stir together.
  • Bring to boil, then simmer under lid at least 30 minutes.
  • Let cool for 30 minutes before the pizza dough is ready to bake out