Name: Mel's Brown Pizza Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 110 min
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: 4 onions, roughly chopped, or more to taste; 3 stalks celery, roughly chopped; 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms; 5 tablespoons minced garlic; 3 (900 ml) cartons chicken broth, divided; 3 (12 ounce) cans tomato paste; 0.5 cup dried oregano; 0.25 cup ground black pepper, or more to taste; 0.25 cup white sugar; 3 tablespoons celery salt; 2 teaspoons basil; 2 teaspoons onion powder; 2 teaspoons seasoned salt; 1.5 cups vegetable oil; 0.5 cup all-purpose flour

Ingredients

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.

Enjoy your meal!