Keto Pizza Sauce Recipe (2024)

Keto Pizza Sauce Recipeis a much-needed recipe we always get asked about.

Today we are finally sharing our pizza-themed recipes with you so you can enjoy delicious keto pizza without guilt. Use this recipe as a marinara dipping sauce for our keto garlic bread!

This keto red sauce recipe can also be used over keto pasta noodles!

Growing up, pizza was a delicacy, and we didn’t get to enjoy homemade or take-out pizza because money was tight and the pizza was expensive.

I ate many of those .99 pizzas (I think they were Mr. P’s pizzas).

Well, not a lot, but I ate them during the summer because they would go on sale, and my mom would stock up.

My mom only cooked them in the oven and had perfected a crispy, slightly burnt (the way I like it) crust.

I know you don’t care to read about my childhood pizza experiences or lack thereof, but to be a good blogger, I have to share stories with you so Google will show you this recipe when you search for it.

You can thank me after you make this recipe.

Keto Red Sauce Recipe

So why can we eat pizza on keto if pizza is so unhealthy?

Well, first of all, pizza isn’t unhealthy, but it can be extremely high in calories.

One slice of pizza can have an entire meal’s worth of calories.

Fat Only Makes You Fat When Paired With Carbohydrates – Truth Or Myth?

Fat is not the bad guy, but neither are carbs!

The actual “fat bomb” is food loaded with carbs and fat (like pizza).

Foods with high fat and carbohydrate content are highly palatable, meaning they taste delicious. We can’t get enough. Have you ever tried eating only one slice of pizza for a meal?

It’s not easy.

For decades, we have been fed with misinformation due to a correlational and not a causational link.

Fat began to get wrong rap sheet at the same time the introduction of readily available carbs appeared.

Think breakfast cereals and snacks.

At this time, cases of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, a range of metabolic disorders, and obesity began to spike.

Studies on those individuals’ diets were met with a bias of sorts.

Fat was already the culprit; it’s in the name, right?!

So what is the truth?

Insulin Calls The Shots Behind The Scenes

When we ingest foods, be it fats, carbs or proteins, the molecules in them do not magically turn into fat.

They must be “shuttled” to their final destination by something.

This conductor is insulin.

Under normal circ*mstances (typically, we mean occasional stimulation), insulin is the prodigal hormone. It is essential to ensure nutrients get where it has to go so that cells and subsequent organs function as they should.

However, following the introduction and subsequent frequent consumption of carb-heavy foods, insulin started working overtime, “hoarding” nutrients into obese cells.

As these fat cells grew and insulin lost sensitivity, a dangerous co*cktail of elevated blood sugar and fat levels resulted, setting the stage for diabetes and high cholesterol.

Fat Does Not Like To Be Stored

You may or may not know insulin by its name, “the storage hormone,” as its primary role is that defined. However, fat had different things in mind.

Research has shown that our ancestors were lean and healthy, all thanks to primary fat-fueled metabolism.

Their diets consisted mainly of wild animals, with the occasional forage consumed, too (such as berries).

The result was a metabolism that used fats for fuel, the way we were meant to function but altered via mass-produced cheap carbohydrate foods.

Under the influence of insulin, however, fats are powerless to be burned directly as fuel and will only be called upon when sugars are low.

Then, or when following a ketogenic diet (low-carb eating that results in ketosis where the body uses fat for energy instead of dietary carbs), the true beauty of using fat as a primary fuel source is revealed.

Fats Do Not Stimulate Insulin Release

Fact- you can eat a whole cow and not experience a surge of insulin, causing your body to oxidize the fat directly for fuel.

However, the typical idea of a meal includes both carbohydrates and fat, resulting in both storage in cells until needed (if ever).

Without the influence of carbs and associated insulin spikes, fats are quickly burned off and not stored in fat cells.

Conclusion

The many studies showing low-carb diets to be more effective in weight loss and reducing cholesterol levels than low-fat diets support the theory that low-carb diets are more effective for weight loss and burning body fat.

Of course, you can also ask the thousands of people, many of whom were obese, who have successfully lost weight and kept it off with a low-carb diet if you are still not convinced.

Now that you know you should avoid all non-keto pizza, we can get on with the show!

Keto Pizza Sauce Ingredients:

2 x medium white onions – diced
1 x garlic cloves peeled and crushed
2 tbsp olive oil
2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp unsweetened tomato puree
2 tsp Italian herb mix
Salt and pepper to taste

Keto Pizza Sauce Instructions:

1. Start by dicing your onions and then peel and crush the garlic.
2. Add the finely diced white onion, crushed garlic, and olive oil to a skillet and saute gently for 10-15 minutes or until the onions have softened and begun to take on a soft golden color.
3. Next, add the chopped tomatoes and Italian herb mix cans and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes.
4. Finally, add the tomato puree and simmer for a further five minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. By this time, the sauce will have reduced and be fairly thick.
5. Use a stick blender or food processor and blend to a smooth consistency.
6. Allow cooling before transferring to a glass jar or storage container or use immediately.

Keto Pizza Sauce Nutrition Info:

I will list the nutrition facts for this recipe as if the sauce will only make 1 pizza.

This sauce will make WAY more than 1 pizza, but I’m going to leave how many pizzas it can be used on up to you.

I have no idea how much sauce you like to use, so you must calculate this yourself.

Easy nutrition math: If you make the sauce and then use 1/2c of sauce per pizza, figure out how many 1/2 servings you make, take the total nutrition facts I provide, and divide by the number of 1/2 cup servings you made.

Easy peasy!

I hope you enjoyed making our tasty keto pizza sauce recipe!

Pizza can easily be paired with a delicious keto-friendly salad for the in-home pizza night.

Serve it with keto cheesecake to make it a party!

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