Tomato Sauce with Emperor's Mint for Pizza is a modern British recipe (based on an Italian original) for making a quick form of the tomato-based sauce for a pizza topping that's flavoured with Emperor's mint and which goes particularly well with sausages, beans and fatty meats. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Italian dish of: Tomato Sauce with Emperor's Mint for Pizza.
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This is a classic pizza topping tomato sauce that can be made quickly from tinned tomatoes and which contains Emperor's mint as a flavouring. This sauce goes particularly well with meat-based toppings.
Ingredients:
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tbsp olive oil
200g tin of chopped tomatoes
2 tsp tomato purée
1/2 tsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp Emperor's mint, finely shredded
1 bayleaf
salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
Method:
Heat the onion in a pan and use to gently fry the onion and garlic for abut 5 minutes, until soft but not browned. Now add the tomatoes, tomato purée, sugar, oregano, Emperor's mint and bay leaf. Season well then bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer then cover and cook gently for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until you have quite a thick sauce.
Remove the bay leaf and adjust the seasonings then set aside to cool well before using. You can store the sauce in a screw-top jar in the refrigerator for up to a week.
