Tomato Sauce Pizza

Name: Tomato Sauce Pizza
Ingredients: 1 medium onion, finely chopped; 1 small carrot, peeled and diced; 1 stick celery, finely sliced; 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed; 15 ml /1 tbsp olive oil; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper; ⅓ quantity pizza dough; 60 ml /4 tbsp tomato sauce; 400 g /14 oz can chopped tomatoes; 100 ml /3½ fl oz /scant ½ cup red or white wine; 100 ml /3½ fl oz /scant ½ cup red or white wine; 5 ml /1 tsp dried herbes de Provence; olive oil for drizzling; fine ground semolina, for sprinkling; fresh basil leaves; 60 g /2 oz mozzarella balls

Preparation info

Makes enough for
7-8
pizzas

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Wood-fired Oven Cookbook

By Holly Jones and David Jones

Published 2016

About

This slow-cooked sauce can be used for all your tomato-based pizzas. It will make enough for seven or eight pizzas and will keep in the refrigerator or can be frozen if you don’t use it all in one go. You can also use it for pasta and casseroles, so you may even want to make double the quantity and freeze in batches.

Ingredients

15 ml /1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped

Pizza
Vegetarian

Method

Build the fire in the oven until it is up to 150°C/300°F, this will take about 30 minutes. When it is up to temperature, push the fire to the back of the oven with a metal peel or coal hook. Keep the oven door closed to keep the h