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Chicago Deep Dish Chunky Sauce
Barely cooked, deliberately chunky. Hand-crushed whole tomatoes; the long bake does the cooking.
bySal R.
⏱ Total
10 min
✋ Active
10 min
◆ Difficulty
Easy
◆ How many deep dish?
deep dish
Ingredients
For 1 DEEP DISH
Whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes (hand-crushed)800 g
Reserved tomato juice (add back)100 g
Extra virgin olive oil15 g
Garlic, finely minced (4 cloves)15 g
Dried oregano3 g
Fine sea salt7 g
Sugar3 g
The process
- 1
Drain & reserve
Drain the tomatoes briefly, reserving 100g of the juice. Discard or save the rest for pasta water.
- 2
Hand-crush
Crush the tomatoes by hand into rough chunks in a bowl. You want pieces, not a purée.
- 3
Combine
Add the 100g reserved juice back. Stir in olive oil, garlic, oregano, salt, sugar.
- 4
Rest
Let sit 10 minutes for the garlic to mellow into the sauce before topping the pizza.
⏱ Rest10:00
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