Pizza Sauce (New York Style, No Cook)

ByKanan Patel
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Looking for an easy pizza sauce recipe to make the best pizza? Get ready to enjoy the bold flavors of New York style pizza with our No Cook Pizza Sauce recipe. You’ll need 6 ingredients and 5 minutes only!

This sauce brings the authentic taste of the city’s iconic pizzas to your table. It’s easy to make and perfectly balances rich flavor and ideal thickness. The best part is this New York Style Pizza sauce is a “no-cook” sauce! 

Pizza sauce in a bowl garnished with chopped basil leaves.

❤️ You’ll Love This Pizza Sauce Recipe

  • Flavor: This recipe brings the authentic taste of the New York City’s iconic pizzas to your table. 
  • Texture: It’s not overly thick or overly thin. Thus, it provides a satisfying texture that enhances the overall pizza experience.

No Cook Pizza Sauce: It is super easy to make. It doesn’t require cooking, just add everything into blender, blend and it’s ready.

Minimal Ingredients: You will need only six staple ingredients that are easy to find in any grocery store.

🧾 Ingredient Notes

Pizza sauce ingredients in spoons with labels.

Redpack Crushed Tomatoes:

  • Highly Recommend using Redpack brand crushed tomatoes for the most authentic New York style pizza sauce flavor. 
  • Not recommended brands:
    • Hunts (makes the sauce tangy or sour)
    • Cento (adds a slightly bitter note)
    • San Marzano tomatoes (my favorite for other Italian recipes, but it makes the sauce too thin and the pizza soggy).

Sugar and Salt: Sugar balances the acidity of the tomatoes and ensures it doesn’t overpower the sauce. Salt enhances the overall flavor profile of the sauce.

Dried Oregano and Dried Basil: Dried oregano brings a burst of aromatic herbaceousness to the sauce, reminiscent of classic Italian cuisine. At the same time, dried basil adds a mild, sweet, and slightly peppery flavor.

Garlic Powder: Garlic powder adds a gentle garlic essence without overpowering the other ingredients and enhances the flavor of the sauce.

👩‍🍳 How To Make New York Style Pizza sauce? (Pics)

  1. Combine the Redpack crushed tomatoes, salt, sugar, dried oregano, dried basil, and garlic powder in a blender.
  2. Blend the ingredients until they form a smooth and cohesive puree.
Collage of 2 images showing adding everything into blender and blended sauce.

💭 Expert Tips For No Cook Pizza Sauce

  • Must use Redpack brand of crushed tomatoes to ensure the best flavor and consistency of your sauce.
  • While San Marzano tomatoes are excellent for some Italian dishes, they can lead to a thin sauce and results into soggy pizza.
  • Taste the sauce and adjust the seasonings according to your liking. You can add more sugar or salt to adjust the seasoning.
  • Add crushed red chili flakes to the sauce if you are craving a bit of heat.

🥣 Storage Instructions

  • To refrigerate, place the sauce in an airtight container. It will last for up to 5 days.
  • To freeze your sauce, consider portioning it into smaller quantities. Silicone molds are your allies here, with each mold holding around ¼ cup of sauce. Pour your sauce into the molds and pop them in the freezer until they’re frozen solid. Then transfer to a freezer-safe ziplock bag and it stays good for up to 3 months.
  • To thaw the frozen sauce portions, simply remove a portion in a bowl and place it in the refrigerator or at room temperature until it gets a liquid consistency.
Showing consistency of pizza sauce using a spoon.

Did you try this New York Style No cook pizza sauce recipe? I’d love to hear about it! Leave a review in the comment section below.

Pizza Sauce Recipe (New York Style, No Cook)

5 from 1 vote
Pizza sauce in a bowl garnished with chopped basil leaves.
Get ready to enjoy the bold flavors of New York style pizza with our No Cook Pizza Sauce recipe. You’ll need 6 ingredients and 5 minutes only!
Kanan
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Serving Size 4 cups

US measuring cups are used (1 cup = 240 ml)

Ingredients

  • 28 oz Redpack Crushed tomatoes
  • 1 ½ teaspoon Salt
  • 1 tablespoon Sugar
  • 2 teaspoon Dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon Dried basil
  • ½ teaspoon Garlic powder

Instructions

  • Combine the Redpack crushed tomatoes, salt, sugar, dried oregano, dried basil, and garlic powder in a blender.
  • Blend the ingredients until they form a smooth and cohesive puree.

Notes

Must use Redpack brand of crushed tomatoes to ensure the best flavor and consistency of your sauce.

Nutrition

Serving: 0.25cup | Calories: 20kcal (1%) | Carbohydrates: 5g (2%) | Protein: 1g (2%) | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.03g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Sodium: 284mg (12%) | Potassium: 151mg (4%) | Fiber: 1g (4%) | Sugar: 3g (3%) | Vitamin A: 111IU (2%) | Vitamin C: 5mg (6%) | Calcium: 22mg (2%) | Iron: 1mg (6%)
Kanan Patel

To understand the art and science of cooking, I read many cookbooks and culinary books. And now sharing all the experience with you. I started this blog on 2012 to share vegetarian, Indian and Eggless baking recipes (w/ step by step photos) that you can count on.

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6 Comments

    1. Only difference is addition of fresh basil leaves.
      I wanted to make separate post for only pizza sauce. So for all the pizza recipes I share in future, I don’t have to include the same photos for sauce. That would make the post lengthy. So divided into parts

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      1. Yeah thats cool. you can now just attach the link. But what makes me happy is to know there are more pizza recipes coming up. 😀

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