The Amish & Pizza 🍕
The Amish are generally prolific pizza eaters. I remember treating the previous Amish cook and her family to pizza on a number of occasions. I think we all piled into a Cici's pizza once on our way to Florida. That was somewhere in Georgia, I think, and was a fond memory. And I can still remember - back when cell phones were a novelty - ordering a pizza from Elizabeth Coblentz's(the original Amish Cook) house in rural Indiana. The pizza delivery driver was quite shocked, I think, when he pulled up to an Amish home to make his delivery.
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How to make pizza sauce out of ketchup?
In making homemade pizza pockets the other day, I ran into a problem: no pizza sauce. In retrospect, I wish I had just used spaghetti or marinara sauce, I mean after all both are tomato sauce based. I think that probably would have worked out just fine. Probably a case of a little information being dangerous, I did some reading online and some high-brow cooking sites were saying you simply can't interchange spaghetti and pizza sauce. So I did some research online and actually found a pizza sauce made from ketchup. Now that'd make the high-brow people squirm. I figured, why not? We had plenty of ketchup.
I did not add garlic powder or onion powder and, in retrospect, that was a mistake. I think it would have masked some of the ketchup-y taste. I thought the sauce tasted fine, but when Aster, my 6-year-old tried, it she complained that it tasted "pickle-y", which was actually very astute of her, she was tasting the pickling spices found in ketchup. I just didn't think she would like it if garlic powder were in it, maybe I was doomed either way. Maybe some dried oregano or basil would have been more neutral.
By the way, I really liked the "mock pizza sauce", I mean, I'd make it again. But when it comes to stuff like that, I am not picky, if you are some pizza sauce snob you probably would take a pass on this, but it was absolutely fine, even tasty, in a pinch.
This easy homemade pizza sauce recipe won't win any awards but when you have no tomato paste in the cabinet you can always reach for the ketchup. We slathered it on our pizza dough tossed it in the oven and topped these mini pizzas with pepperoni, mushrooms, mozzarella & topped with olive oil.
You can save this sauce in the freezer if need be, but it was so easy and painless if you're going to do it, I'd go with fresh!
🍕 Ketchup Pizza Sauce Ingredients
- 1 - ½ cup ketchup
- 3 tbsp flour
- ¼ cup water
- 3 tsp mustard
- ½ tsp Garlic powder
- ½ tsp Onion powder
- ¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 /4 cup brown sugar
🍕 Ketchup Pizza Sauce Instructions
- Measure all ingredients into small saucepan.
- Whisk until smooth and no lumps of flour remain.
- Heat, stirring constantly, until boiling and thickened. Make about 2 cups.
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📋 Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe made with Ketchup
Ketchup Pizza Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 - ½ cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons flour
- ¼ cup water
- 3 teaspoon mustard
- ½ teaspoon Garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon Onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 /4 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Measure all ingredients into small saucepan.
- Whisk until smooth and no lumps of flour remain.
- Heat, stirring constantly, until boiling and thickened. Make about 2 cups.
Dianna Cronkhite
I would try making your pizza sauce , and leaving out he flour. I would just put the rest of ingreds on a cheesecloth and let the ingreds drain till dry. If you make it this way let us know as I think it will work and be just like pizza sauce.