Marinara Sauce for Pizza

Name: Marinara Sauce and Marinara Pizza Recipe
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Italian cuisine
Ingredients: Pizza dough 400 g; Ripest tomatoes 4-5; Garlic 3-4 cloves; Olive oil 3-4 tbsp; Parmesan (optional) 30 g; Black olives (optional) 8-10; Fresh basil 2-3 sprigs; Sugar 1 tsp (5 g); Salt, oregano, dried herbs to taste

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1 h 30 mins

The word “marinara” means “of the sea” or “sailor’s”, not because of what goes into it but because of where it comes from. Marinara sauce owes its origin to the sea.

Marinara pizza is made with marinara sauce: tomatoes, garlic, aromatic herbs, olive oil and Parmesan. As a topping, marinara pizza almost always has black olives too.

Marinara is a classic of Italian cooking and goes into a huge number of Italian dishes.

Pizza with this “sailor’s” tomato sauce is delicious hot and just as good the next day. If you are going fishing or hiking, this pizza is perfect to take along.

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Ingredients

34 cm pizza

Pizza dough 400 g
Ripest tomatoes 4-5
Garlic 3-4 cloves
Olive oil 3-4 tbsp
Parmesan (optional) 30 g
Black olives (optional) 8-10
Fresh basil 2-3 sprigs
Sugar 1 tsp (5 g)
Salt, oregano, dried herbs to taste

Step-by-step recipe

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Dough

Make the dough. Pizza dough is made the usual way. We have been making a yeast pizza dough from a very simple recipe for a long time and recommend it to everyone. What is special about this dough is that you can make it anything from thin and crisp as a chip to thick and fluffy, as you like.

Marinara sauce

Make the sauce. The tomatoes must be fully ripe. Scald them, peel off the skin and remove the seeds. Mash the flesh to a purée, add salt, 1 tsp sugar (5 g) and 1 tbsp olive oil.
The sauce is raw, so there is no need to simmer it. If liquid collects in the purée, drain it off. Marinara pizza should be dry rather than juicy.

Assembling and baking

Assemble the pizza. Spread the purée over the prepared dough on the pan. Then scatter thin slices of garlic and black olives, halved or whole. Sprinkle with dried oregano and dried herbs, then with grated Parmesan.
Put it in an oven preheated to 200°C. Marinara bakes for up to 20 minutes, until the edges of the dough are browned.

Serving

Garnish the finished pizza only with fresh basil leaves. Cut the pizza into 6-8 pieces.
Marinara pizza is served hot. Then again, cold pizza is always good.

Calories and macros

179 kcal

100 g

Protein4.4 g10% of kcal
Fat8.2 g42% of kcal
Carbs21.2 g48% of kcal

Calculated from the recipe ingredients, excluding salt and spices. Data: USDA and Matvaretabellen.

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