Homemade Marinara/Pizza Sauce!

Ingredients

1. Tomatoes (Large) - 7 in number (6 Cups when coarsely blended)
2. Olive Oil - 2 Tbsp
3. Garlic (Minced) - 2 Tbsp
4. Oregano flakes - 1 Tbsp
5. Parsley Flakes (Optional) - 1Tsp
6. Chili Flakes - 1Tsp
7. Bay leaves - 2 Small 
8. Brown Sugar - 1Tsp
9. Salt - 2 Tsp

Procedure

• Wash the tomatoes and put a cross on top (see the image)

• Boil 5 to 6 cups of water in a deep container and put the tomatoes in the boiling water and cook for 5 minutes (the skin will start to come off)
• Take them out and peel off the skin 

• Mash the tomatoes with the help of potato masher (do not use blender because we need chunky pieces of tomatoes in the sauce) 

• Now Take a heave bottom deep sauce pan and heat the olive oil in it for a minute
• Once hot, put the minced garlic and bay leaves and cook it only for a minute (we are NOTgoing to brown fry the garlic)
• Now put the mashed tomatoes into the container and stir it thorughly
• At this moment thrown in the Sugar, Salt, Chili Flakes, Oregano Flakes and Parsley flakes and cover the lid and cook the entire mixture for 30 minutes at low to medium flame
• After 30 minutes, open the lid and give the sauce a good mix 
• Now cook the sauce for another 15 minutes at high flame (Or until you see oil floating on the surface and the sauce have become thick in consistency)

At this point your marinara/pizza sauce is done. Completely cool it and store it in a glass container/mason Jar inside your fridge for up to a month!!