How To Make Pizza Sauce I Recipe

Here's how to make pizza sauce by the head chef from Franco Manca.

Transcript

00:00 Hello guys, my name is Rafa, I'm the head chef for Franco Manca and today I'm going to show you guys how we make our tomato sauce.

00:05 Okay guys,

00:10 our tomato recipe is quite simple.

00:12 We use those tomatoes which are quite sweet in flavor.

00:16 They have this sweetness because of the soil and the weather or where they come from. They come from the

00:22 Campania area under the Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy.

00:25 Now I'm going to show you how we prepare these tomatoes at Franco Manca.

00:29 All you're gonna do, you're gonna get a tin opener, open it through,

00:32 put it in a bowl.

00:35 You add a little bit of salt, around 20 grams.

00:40 And then using a potato masher,

00:46 you're just gonna mash it

00:49 until it becomes a sauce.

00:51 Don't worry if you have some bits in the middle of the tomato because that's what you want.

00:54 You don't want to be like a plain, like, smoothie sauce. You want to have some of the bits into it.

01:00 So you can see that there are actually real tomatoes in here.

01:02 The reason why we don't cook those tomatoes is because we want people to actually feel the flavor of it.

01:09 If you cook them, they're going to become quite heavy after in the pizza.

01:12 So you want to feel the freshness and the lightness of the tomato when you have your pizza as well.

01:16 Now that the tomato is quite smooth and you have just small bits into it,

01:20 I'm gonna put the tomato sauce on the sides and I'll quickly open a pizza base and show you guys how to put the tomato

01:25 on the base of the pizza.

01:28 With the ladle,

01:34 I'm gonna take a full ladle of tomato,

01:36 place it all in the middle of the pizza.

01:39 Then from the middle, you're gonna spread it around,

01:41 leaving a bit of room on the edges, like a finger.

01:44 Then from here, you can add anything like mozzarella,

01:47 hams, chorizos, whatever, and use it with your new perfect tomato sauce.

01:52 (upbeat music)

01:55 [MUSIC]