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> I've found that some of the better pizza sauce tends to have a
> tangy, smoky taste. Does anybody have any idea what ingredients
> produce this flavor?
>
> Most of the pizza sauce recipes I've seen are nothing more
> than a thickened, glorified spaghetti sauce (i.e. tomato sauce/
> paste, basil, oregano) and are too weak and "fruity". I know
> there's other ingredients involved here.

Look to the oven for the taste. Pizza ovens - the deck types, not the
modern conveyor ovens - always have a little leftover stuff in them
that burns and makes smoke.

The baking process at very elevated temperatures changes taste and
texture of everything on the pizza.

But no ingredients to give a smoky flavor.

Pastorio