Bonta pizza sauce?

[garyd]

I recently picked up a #10 size can of Bonta Pizza sauce that I found in an Italian market. I was shocked to find it to be basically like paste. It is also almost too sweet even though there is no sugar added. I wound up cutting with about 50% water to try to use it and do not like the taste at all. Does anyone have any experience with this sauce and have some tricks or additions to make it taste better.?

[scott r]

You are correct that it is tomato paste.  They make it in 2 viscosity's and there is one that is closer to a sauce, but even that one needs water added.  It is meant to have water added until it is a fairly thin sauce.  Typically some oregano, garlic powder, maybe even some olive oil added along with some salt.   Its not the best sauce for many pizza styles, but some pizzas do well with this type of sauce.   Some pizzerias use this in addition to whole peeled tomatoes to get a thicker sauce.  You would be surprised at how many pizzerias use this type of product (tomato paste) as their sauce. 

[garyd]

You are correct that it is tomato paste.  They make it in 2 viscosity's and there is one that is closer to a sauce, but even that one needs water added.  It is meant to have water added until it is a fairly thin sauce.  Typically some oregano, garlic powder, maybe even some olive oil added along with some salt.   Its not the best sauce for many pizza styles, but some pizzas do well with this type of sauce.   Some pizzerias use this in addition to whole peeled tomatoes to get a thicker sauce.  You would be surprised at how many pizzerias use this type of product (tomato paste) as their sauce.

I just can't believe how sweet it is with no sugar added. There's a pizza place near me that uses a non thinned out paste like sauce that they put on with a cake frosting like knife.

[TXCraig1]

You would be surprised at how many pizzerias use this type of product (tomato paste) as their sauce.

Folks here would be surprised by lots of things that are common at many pizzerias because the place is so far removed from the reality of pizza in the US, of which 99%+ is absolute garbage.