What To Do With Leftover Pizza Sauce – 20 Recipes With Pizza Sauce

Pizza has become very popular, and it is mostly used as a snack. This delicious and finger-licking round bread comes in different varieties of cheese.

It is always filled with a variety of toppings and sauce that is usually very delicious.

Pizza sauce consists of blended tomatoes and other additions like garlic, onions, chili, and various herbs.

Baking a homemade pizza will always leave you with an extra amount of this sauce that you can incorporate with other foods rather than throw in the trash.

Uses of pizza sauce

Salsa

They make a good sauce, especially when you run out of salsa while enjoying your dinner. Pizza sauce comes in handy at this moment as preparing it is very easy.

So, to turn the sauce into salsa, chop red onions, add a cup marinara with a hot sauce, two spoons of lime juice, and black beans and mix all these ingredients at once up until the ingredients are thoroughly combined or mixed.

Salsa sauce is extremely rich in lycopene; therefore, your body can never get low on lycopene.

Lasagna

This flat and wide pasta made from alternating layers of fillings and pasta sheets can also be combined with pizza sauce to enhance its taste.

The sauce comes in handy when making the meat sauce as it makes them delicious.

You can mix the vegetables with the sauce for the vegetarian variety, after which you top it with cheese and then bake the pasta.

Toppings can be done using shredded mozzarella cheese. After assembling the ingredients altogether, cook the lasagna in an oven.

Braised beef with garlic

Pizza sauce blends well with braised meat. This recipe is delicious, especially for non-vegetarians, as it enhances the taste of the meat.

There are no lengthy procedures involved while preparing the meat using this sauce.

This recipe was originally published in 1992, and Laurie Colwin and Natalie waag were the two people behind this recipe.

The ingredients were reduced to only three, which were tomatoes, a garlic head, and a beef roast.

Whether it is chicken or beef meat, you only need to dip the meat in the sauce for 30-45 minutes, after which you bake it for another 30 minutes, and your dish is as good as done.

You can also marinate the meat with vegetables and herbs of your choice and other seasonings.

The other advantage of this sauce is that you can also use it while making sandwiches and meatballs.

Grilled vegetable pizza

This pizza is usually heavily loaded with vegetables, making it easy to prepare as the vegetables are readily available in the supermarkets, groceries, or your garden. Grilling this vegetable brings out delicious flavors in the pizza.

How do you prepare this pizza? It would help if you blended the mushrooms, peppers, onion, vinegar, oil, and spices.

Then grill the vegetables in a grill basket on medium heat for about 10 minutes until they become soft and tender.

For the bread, brush the crust with oil and also with the pizza sauce.

Add the grilled vegetables, cheese, and tomatoes as the toppings and heat it indirectly until the crust is evenly brown.

In this recipe, you can as well use garlic butter as s a substitute for the pizza sauce.

Deluxe pizza casserole

This is one of my sibling’s most favorite pizza. This casserole is made with different ingredients that make the toppings and a layer of melted cheese.

To maintain a consistent melt, you can as well use fresh packaged mozzarella.

They have a very excellent appearance and are usually easy to prepare. It is also one of the most trending pizzas, and people mostly love this pizza type because of its distinctive taste.

The first step involved in making this delicious pizza is by cooking the pasta as per package directions.

As the pasta is getting ready, dice the beef and cook it with sausages, onions, and pepper.

The preparation of this should be done over medium heat, heat until the meat is tender.

Add the pasta sauce, brown sugar, and the pizza sauce and let it simmer in a minimum heat while uncovered to stir all these ingredients.

Add mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese and bake it until it is slightly brown and the cheese has melted for the toppings.

Pizza fondue

Introducing a new variety of pizza to your kitchen, especially when you have a tradition of having pizza for dinner over the weekends.

The introduction of new designs to your kitchen keeps your family from getting bored with one type of pizza over and over again.

Its preparation procedure involves adding the mozzarella cheese, parmesan, oregano, and marinara and heating them in a fondue pot until the cheese melts.

Remember to use medium heat if, by any chance, you are using a stovetop in place of a fondue pot. Stir the ingredients for them to combine.

It is best accompanied by breadsticks, which are usually very easy to make just by using a pizza dough that you can buy; you can also use a string of cheese to make these sticks.

To add some flavor to this stick, brush them with garlic butter just before baking them.

Mini pizza cups

These mini pizza cups are usually relatively small in size, making them a good snack that your child can use when at school or parties intended for kids.

They can either be served hot or cold, and the best of it all is that making them is super easy.

Cut the dough into small pieces related to the number in which your muffin tin can hold, grease the muffin tin, place them inside, and then add pizza sauce in each of the cups.

The toppings depend on what your favorite flavors are. Bake the cups for 25 minutes until the crust turns brown.

Check if the crust is turning brown too quickly and cover them using foil paper, then return them to the oven for complete cooking.

Pizza mountain pie

This pizza is often loaded with pizza sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni, after which it is baked to perfection.

The crust of this pie is usually crunchy, whereas the inside comprises different fillings like the mozzarella cheese.

So how do you make the mountain pie? The first procedure is by spreading butter on one side of the bread.

Then you place the bread on a mountain pie maker with butter side facing down.

The fillings follow next, stuff the bread with ingredients of your choice.

You can replace it with any other meat like pizza toppings that you want for the pepperoni pizza.

On the other hand, mozzarella cheese can either be sliced or shredded as per what you prefer.

Place the other bread in the mountain pie maker, but with this one facing the opposite direction, add the toppings’ remainder and shut the maker.

It would help if you then toasted the bread over a coal fire and not on flames, let the cheese melt for 6 minutes while turning it frequently.

Pizza rolls

This is one of the most straightforward recipes that you can ever make in your house.

Usually, it is made from homemade pizza dough and used as a snack and appetizer on different occasions such as parties and celebrations.

The dough is usually fluffy and lighted up with pepperoni pizza. The fillings are made of Italian seasonings, Mexican cheese, marinara or pizza sauce, and pepperoni combined to form delicious rolls.

Start by kneading the dough when preparing these rolls and let the dough rise, after which you cut into similar proportions and freeze it for a day.

Place the dough’s fillings and roll it, forming a crescent shape and bake them until they are golden brown.

Another method that you can use is by rolling out the whole dough forming rectangular shapes.

Like the cinnamon rolls, the filling will be spread evenly over the dough when rolled out.

The last bit involves you folding the dough into a log-like structure, slicing an inch from the dough, and then baking until the golden color appears.

Gnocchi 

It is a type of pasta that consists of a soft dough usually very thick and small, combined with other ingredients like cheese, potatoes, breadcrumbs, wheat flour and eggs, and other seasonings like herbs and vegetables.

The process involved in making this recipe includes peeling the potatoes, mashing, and boiling them.

The next step is beating an egg inside the mashed potatoes in the process of making the dough.

Knead the dough until it is soft, then cut the dough into small pieces and press them on a fork to form ridges that can hold the sauce.

Before cutting the dough into cube-like sizes, you should roll it all out for more comfortable cuttings and making of the ridges.

After making the ridges, boil the dough for one minute and fry it in a pizza sauce or butter sauce, and you are all done.

Meatball pizza 

This is a recipe for meat lovers. It is made with a variety of flavors that make it delicious.

The meatballs are incorporated with other ingredients that enhance their taste, making this pizza ideal for family gatherings or dinners.

To make this recipe:

1. Pour a little amount of oil into the pan.
2. Spread the pizza dough into the pan and bake it for a short while, poking the dough.
3. Assemble the meat and cook it with garlic, parmesan cheese, pizza sauce, and the seasonings.

Top the crust of the pizza with mozzarella cheese and the blend of meat that you cooked. Bake it for 20 minutes until the cheese melts and turns golden, and serve it hot.

The Middle East baked eggs

It is both a North African and a Middle East recipe usually served during breakfast and lunch hours. It is also known as shakshuka.

Generally, this recipe involves baking eggs in the tomato or pizza sauce with other ingredients like peppers and onions, and paprika.

The eggs take very little time to cook; therefore, you can easily make several recipes in a shorter time in the aromatic pizza sauce and cook many eggs in them.

To prepare this recipe, heat the oil, add garlic and onion and cook them on medium heat until the onion is translucent. Then add tomatoes, capsicum and cook until they form a thick paste combination.

Blend the pizza sauce, paprika, and pepper and stir them until they are thoroughly mixed and simmer the mixture for 5 minutes.

The next step is makings dents and hollows in the mixture and cracks the eggs in the pan. Simmer the combination with a lid until the whites of the eggs are set and serve with pita bread.

Penne arrabbiata

This recipe is made with loads of spices, and that is why it is called arrabiata, which in Italian means “angry.”

It is usually blended with fresh ingredients like parsley and parmesan as these flavors influence this dish’s taste.

How do you make penne arrabbiata; the first thing you do is cook the pasta; you can use penne pasta.

After that, add oil, garlic, and red pepper, cook for one minute, add tomatoes, the pizza sauce, and steam it for a few minutes before adding the basil. Lastly, add the pasta and parmesan.

Marinara dipping sauce

You can quickly turn the leftover pizza sauce into dipping sauce appetizers like mozzarella sticks or nachos that are very delicious when dipped into this kind of sauces.

It is an easy sauce to prepare as you only need five ingredients and, in a few minutes, you will have a perfect sauce for the breadsticks, zucchini fries, and many others.

The important thing that you need to consider before preparing this sauce is a good pizza/tomato sauce brand.

Inferior quality brands of these sauces will make you a low-quality dipping sauce that is less delicious.

The instructions in making this sauce are straightforward, heat the oil in a saucepan with medium heat, add garlic cloves and stir fry it until it turns brown. Stir the garlic for about 5 minutes. After that, take the garlic off the pan.

Add oregano, basil, salt, and tomato sauce to the pan and stir them until they have entirely blended, then let it simmer for 10 minutes over medium heat. It can either be served warm or cold.

Sausage casserole

The best thing about sausage casserole is that you can prepare them in advance.

This sausage is made with several flavoring ingredients, spices, and some pieces of chorizo. It is mostly prepared when the weather is cold.

Making this sausage casserole includes browning the sausages in oil and a slightly large pan, then add arribada the onion and stir fry until they turn translucent, then add chorizo and peppers. The next that goes in is garlic, paprika, and tomato sauce.

Steam this combination for a few minutes, add red wine to this mixture, and let it simmer for 20 minutes.

Then you can throw in the haricot beans and again let it simmer for another five minutes.

Buffalo chicken wings

This recipe originated from a New York restaurant around the 60s.

It was invented by Teressa Bellissimo, who coated the chicken in a sauce she created and served it with a side dish of celery and cheese.

Since then, this recipe has been evolving with the introduction of different ingredients.

The trick to making perfect buffalo chicken wings is by using baking powder free from aluminum contents.

However, much it sounds unreal; the use of aluminum-free baking powder is what makes these wings crispy. You will need to coat your wings by mixing garlic powder, pepper, and salt.

After covering your wings with the above ingredients, put the wings in an aluminum foil paper to prevent any drippings to the fire source, then place the wings in a uniform layer to distribute heat to the wings evenly.

You need to melt the butter on medium heat to make the sauce, then add honey and turn off the heat source.

Add the sauce but don’t heat too much as a hotter sauce tends to separate and form an oily surface.

Ratatouille

This is French cuisine with its origin based in Nice. It is also known as ratatouille niçoise.

The recipe preparation varies widely from one region to another, but the common ingredients used during its preparation include capsicum, aubergine, tomatoes, garlic, and onions.

It is a simple dish to prepare, but on the other hand, it also consumes a lot of time.

Traditionally, the vegetables are prepared differently then later; after cooking each vegetable independently, you slowly blend them and steam the combination.

Prepare this recipe, preheat the oven, prepare the vegetables, then toss sliced eggplant in olive oil and salt, then squash them on a baking sheet and arrange them in sequence.

The next is making the sauce, and at this point, you need to fry the onion, garlic, and peppers until they are tender. Add vegetables in the layers you had formed in a pattern.

Make the herb seasonings by mixing parsley, garlic, pepper, basil, and the herbs, then cover the pan with foil paper and bake this combination for 40 minutes until the vegetables become soft.

Chicken parmigiana

It is also referred to as parmesan, and it is a prevalent dish both in the US and Italy with slight variations in the techniques used to prepare it.

Chicken parmesan is simple to make and is usually very delicious, especially if you like flaky crumb crusts.

It is one of the most ordered recipes worldwide; nevertheless, some restaurants do not use the right ingredients, making the chicken come out dry without enough flavorings.

It is also referred to as chicken parm in the US and parma in Australia.

To prepare this crispy chicken, beat the eggs, parsley, salt, pepper, and garlic together in a bowl, then dip the chicken to the combination such that the chicken will get coated with this mixture and let it marinate for 10 minutes.

Blend the parmesan cheese, breadcrumbs, and garlic powder in another bowl, dip the chicken into this combination and rotate it for the coating to be evenly distributed.

Fry the chicken over medium heat until it turns golden brown and flaky.

Take the chicken out of the pan and top every breast with the tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and bake for 20 minutes.

Beef goulash

It is a Hungarian recipe stew prepared with heavy paprika and tomatoes that makes the sauce thick and creamy.

Traditionally, this stew is made with a lot more soup, and the number of tomatoes used is also moderated. Thickening of the soup also was not done by the use of flour.

There are variations of this dish from one region to another with several introductions of other ingredients to enhance its taste.

Prepare this beef, place the meat in a bowl, season it with pepper and salt, and then place the beef in flour.

Then add the onions to the pan and sauté the onions until they are translucent. After that, add garlic and the tomato sauce and let it simmer.

In the same pan, add the paprika, bay leaves, caraway seeds, beef stock, and honey and stir then bring to simmer and reduce the heat to low then place a lid on the pan to prevent the steam from escaping and let it cook for 3hours until the beef is soft.

You can then add chopped parsley and serve it with mashed potatoes or egg noodles.

Spaghetti Bolognese

It is a prevalent dish around the world, and why not? It is usually very delicious.

This is pasta that is blended in a meat sauce. The beef is slowly cooked with other ingredients like onions, garlic, carrots, and celery.

The pasta commonly used is always thicker such as tagliatelle or fettuccine. This flat and slightly wide pasta carries the meat sauce well as compared to spaghetti.

The sauce plays a vital role in this recipe; you can easily make it from home with no added preservatives.

To prepare this pasta:

1. Add olive oil to a pan and toss in diced onions, carrots, garlic, and celery, then cook them over medium heat.
2. Add the ground meat and stir until the pink color in the beef is eliminated.
3. Sprinkle the oregano and basil leaves and let it simmer for 2 hours.
4. As this is almost cooked, prepare your pasta as per package instructions and combine it with the sauce.
5. Be careful not to overcook it and serve with parmesan cheese.

Pasta

Instead of preparing new sauces for the pasta that you are about to cook, use the pizza sauce as a substitute for the tomato sauce or paste. Pizza sauce improves the taste of your pasta, making it more appetizing.

You only need to toss the pizza sauce in the pasta blended with vegetables and other seasonings to make it more delicious and colorful.

You can also use this sauce in chicken combined with pasta, especially for people who are non-vegetarians.

Bottom line

The leftover pizza sauce is an essential ingredient, and you should not toss it into the garbage next time you prepare a homemade pizza.

The sauce can influence several other dishes. You can as well use it for other new recipes you are planning to prepare in your house.