Best Easy Marinara Sauce Recipes

EASY MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion, green bell pepper, and garlic until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add brown sugar, Italian seasoning, salt, oregano, basil, black pepper, and red pepper flakes; cook and stir until brown sugar dissolves and seasoning is fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Stir tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and white wine into the seasoned onion mixture; bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until flavors have blended, at least 30 minutes.

EASY MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, sauté garlic and onion in olive oil until onion is tender.
• Stir all remaining ingredients in with onion mixture; heat to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Carefully puree hot sauce in in a food processor or blender; serve hot over cooked pasta and top with fresh-grated Parmesan cheese.

EASY MARINARA DIPPING SAUCE FOR THE LAZY

Steps:

• Blend all the ingredients together in a food processor or blender.
• To gently heat, pour 1/4 cup (or the desired amount) into a microwave-safe ramekin or container, and put a paper plate over it so tomato splats won't get all over the microwave. Nuke for 30 seconds on 50% power. You may have to adjust up or downward depending on microwave strength.

AWESOMELY EASY MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in medium-sized saucepan.
• Saute onions and garlic until brown.
• Add tomato sauce and stir.
• Lower heat to medium-low.
• While stirring, add rosemary, basil and oregano.
• Allow sauce to bubble.
• Sprinkle with sugar and mix again.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Use immediately, or transfer to plastic container for storage.

QUICK AND EASY SPAGHETTI WITH MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the spaghetti and cook according to package directions and then drain.
• While the pasta is cooking, puree the tomatoes with their juice in a blender with the garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon salt, and a few grinds of pepper.
• Heat the oil in a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Careful of it splashing, pour the tomato puree into the hot oil and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the cooked pasta to the sauce and toss until coated. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with grated Parmesan.

MUSHROOM MARINARA SAUCE--EASY

Steps:

• Start by heating the oil over medium-low heat in a large pan.
• Slice mushrooms with egg slicer.
• When all the mushrooms are sliced, raise the heat on the pan to medium and add the mushrooms.
• Cook, stirring occasionally, for a few minutes until the mushrooms are tender and their juices released.
• Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper and reduce the heat to medium-low.
• Using the garlic press, place a clove of unpeeled garlic into the press and add right to the pan (using a fork to get the garlic off the press as necessary). Discard the peel, and continue with the remaining garlic.
• Stir in the pressed garlic and add a small pinch of red pepper flakes.
• Open the can of tomatoes and pour the liquid right into the pan.
• With a kitchen scissor, chop the tomatoes coarsely, right in the can, then, add them to the sauce.
• Add more seasoning, the bay leaf and dried basil, thyme and sugar, then simmer uncovered for about 15 minutes (while the pasta cooks).
• When it is almost time to serve, add a little of the pasta cooking liquid to the sauce.
• Using the scissors, snip the parsley leaves into the sauce.
• I taste for seasoning, discard bay leaf and serve over cooked pasta.

QUICK AND EASY SPAGHETTI/MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in a medium mixing bowl and mix well.
• Use in any recipe calling for spaghetti type sauce. If not using immediately the sauce can be heated to cook in the flavors of seasonings. Heat in a sauce pan medium-low allow just to bubble. Cool and store.

BIG POT MARINARA SAUCE - EASY PEASY

Steps:

• 1. I make this during canning season so at this point I have already peeled seeded and chopped my tomatoes and they are cooking on med-low with the 2 bay leaves in large pot for about an hour to thicken them up. (I do leave some seeds in my marinara)In the winter I use 4 quarts of home canned tomatoes.
• 2. Chop up the onions, carrots and celery.
• 3. In a large skillet combine and cook onion, celery, and carrots in the olive oil until tender - about 20 minutes.
• 4. Add garlic and stir. Remove from heat.
• 5. Add celery, carrots and onion mixture to the pot of tomatoes. Cook for 10 minutes. Remove bay leaves.
• 6. I use a Immersion blender to puree the marinara right in the pot. We like ours with little veggies pieces but you could blend until smooth.
• 7. Add your oregano marjoram and basil to the pot and cook to your desired consistency.
• 8. Serve over hot pasta. This makes a big pot. I freeze the leftovers after the sauce has cooled. This recipe usually gets us 5 meals and we have a 4 people family.

EASY LIGHT AND LOVELY MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• In a skillet, warm the olive oil on medium low and toss in the garlic. Saute the garlic until it is very fragrant and golden in color. Remove the garlic and discard or save for another use.
• Pour the liquid from the tomato can into the skillet but be careful of splattering. Stick your hand into the can and squeeze the tomatoes, discard any stem ends that are hard. Pour the crushed tomatoes into the skillet and heat through while you cook your pasta. Cook it down until it is the desired consistency. I don't like chunky thick pasta sauces so I cook mine down and even use my immersible blender to smooth it out. Cook it until it reaches a good consistency for what you are using it for.
• My mother always said that the sauce is ready when it doesn't foam any longer. It should only take 20 minutes to make, if that.
• Taste for seasoning, sauce your pasta and top with basil leaves.

EASY MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oil in saucepan. Add onions and when they start to soften, add garlic and tomato paste. Stir together for a minute or two.
• 2. Add tomato puree and rest of ingredients. Simmer together. Cover, lower heat and stir occasionally, until sauce is thickened.