Grandmas Marinara Sauce
From shandy 14 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 20
Used as pasta sauce, in place of tomato sauce and as a marinara for chicken cacciatore. The recipe makes about 8 cups and the sauce can be broken down into serving sizes and frozen for later use or canned. I do both; preferring canning over freezing. Read more I use my sauce a lot when dinner ideas are not jumping out at me. So quick to throw on pasta and add whatever else to the dish along with freshly grated Parmigiana cheese. Easy, fast and a relief! See less
Ingredients
- 3 T. olive oil shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced shopping list
- 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped shopping list
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped shopping list
- 2 T. fresh oregano, chopped shopping list
- 1 1/2 to 2 T. basil, dried or freshly chopped (whatever you can get ahold of) shopping list
- 2 whole bay leaves, dried or fresh shopping list
- 7 cans (16 oz. each) tomato sauce - Hunts brand preferred shopping list
- 1 can tomato paste - same brand if possible shopping list
- 2 cans ( 12 oz to 14 oz each) diced tomatoes - with or without extra seasonings included shopping list
- 2 celery sticks cleaned shopping list
- 1 carrot, just peeled and cleaned shopping list
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmigiana cheese shopping list
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Use a Large Pot!
- Heat olive oil on medium-low heat. Put garlic & onion in oil and heat until it is tender.
- Put parsley, oregano, basil, and bay leaves in and continue to heat for about 3 minutes.
- Open all cans of tomato products; add in sauce pot. Raise heat to medium high. Make sure to occasionally stir sauce. Cook and stir sauce until hot. Once sauce is hot, lower heat to simmer.
- Add celery stalks and whole carrot in sauce, continue to simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of grated cheese to sauce, continue to simmer 15 minutes.
- Remove carrot, celery, cover sauce, continue to simmer. Make sure to occasionally stir sauce.
- Taste, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, take out bay leaves and simmer until the flavor is right for you. Then make some pasta, chicken, whatever you would like to use the marinara sauce for and break the rest down into serving portions for later use and freeze.
Sauteing onions, herbs and garlic
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Add Tomato Ingredients and Simmer
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Add Carrot and Celery; Simmer
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Add Parmiagna Cheese; Simmer
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Serve on Pasta
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Reviewed by 3 people-
What are the chances of having love the same recipe. This is indeed a wonderful Marinara sauce.
To this, I also add stewed tomatoes, and of course it has to be HUNTS - don't know, but it's the only sauce that meshes.
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