red sauce

A can of Sclafani brand crushed tomatoes, with two large red tomatoes on the label and the words "Sclafani Crushed Tomatoes" surrouding them.

Super Simple 5-Minute Seasoned Pizza Sauce

This pizza sauce is good for throwback “pizza parlor” pizzas of all sorts. With dried oregano and basil and a pinch of garlic powder, it has that old-school “red sauce” flavor profile.

A round-shaped uncooked pizza dough with a spiral of sauce on top. It's lying on a wood pizza peel.

The Simplest Pizza Sauce Ever

Neapolitan pizza-makers don’t even call this “sauce.” It’s just “tomato” on their menus, in their speech, their literature. And it’s easy to see why. There’s nothing more to this “recipe” than crushed tomatoes and salt.