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Detroit Thick-Sweet Sauce
Distinctly sweet, deeply reduced, racing-striped on top after the bake.
bySal R.
⏱ Total
25 min
✋ Active
10 min
◆ Difficulty
Easy
◆ How many Detroit pizza?
Detroit pizza
Ingredients
For 1 DETROIT PIZZA
Crushed tomatoes (San Marzano preferred)800 g
Extra virgin olive oil20 g
Garlic, finely minced (3 cloves)10 g
Dried oregano3 g
Dried basil1 g
Sugar10 g
Fine sea salt5 g
Crushed red pepper0.5 g
The process
- 1
Warm the oil
Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
- 2
Bloom the garlic
Add the garlic, cook 30 seconds until fragrant. Do not brown.
- 3
Add tomatoes & seasonings
Add crushed tomatoes, oregano, dried basil, sugar, salt, red pepper.
- 4
Reduce hard
Bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and cook ~20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thick and jammy — about 3 cups reduced to 2. Sauce should sit up in stripes on the back of a spoon.
⏱ Reduce20:00 - 5
Taste & cool
Adjust salt and sugar — it should taste noticeably sweet, more than a typical pizza sauce. Cool. Apply COLD or at room temp on top of the baked pizza.
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