Mel's Brown Pizza Sauce

Mel's brown pizza sauce recipe is a tomato-based pizza sauce, seasoned with black pepper, basil, onion powder, celery salt, seasoned salt, and garlic.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins
• Calories: 201 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
• 2 teaspoons seasoned salt
• 5 tablespoons minced garlic
• 2 teaspoons basil
• 3 stalks celery, roughly chopped
• 4 onions, roughly chopped, or more to taste
• 3 (900 ml) cartons chicken broth, divided
• 3 (12 ounce) cans tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons celery salt
• 0.5 cup all-purpose flour
• 0.25 cup white sugar
• 1.5 cups vegetable oil
• 0.5 cup dried oregano
• 0.25 cup ground black pepper, or more to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Combine about 1/4 each onions, celery, mushrooms, and garlic with 1/4 cup chicken broth in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until smooth, adding more chicken broth as necessary. Transfer puréed vegetable mixture to a large pot. Repeat with remaining onions, celery, mushrooms, and garlic.

Step 2

Stir remaining chicken broth into vegetable purée in the pot; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until flavors blend, about 45 minutes.

Step 3

Stir tomato paste, oregano, black pepper, sugar, celery salt, basil, onion powder, and seasoned salt into vegetable purée-broth mixture; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until flavors blend, about 45 minutes more.

Step 4

Whisk oil and flour into sauce until smooth.