One of the recipes you need to have up your sleeve is Basic Marinara Sauce. Why? It’s sooo versatile, easy, healthy, simple, elegant, guest-worthy, inexpensive. In fact, it is one of the Five Mother Sauces that you’ll use over and over again in your home cooking. And while getting marinara sauce straight from the jar has it’s conveniences, making it from scratch takes no time at all and uses ingredients you probably already have on hand.
Basic Pantry Ingredients
- Canned crushed tomatoes
- Onion
- Garlic
- Oregano
- White wine
- Parsley
I make this sauce when I’m making an easy weeknight meal of spaghetti and meatballs. I simply reheat a bag of my favorite premade frozen meatballs and add them.
Variations
Serving spaghetti with Basic Marinara Sauce is versatile, because you can select the exact type of noodles, customizing the dish to your liking:
- Healthy with whole-grain wheat noodles
- Gluten-free with brown rice or spelt
- Paleo with spaghetti squash and meatballs
- Vegan if you skip the meatballs
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Basic Marinara Sauce
A basic tomato sauce that is simmered with onions, garlic, Italian spices, and a bit of wine, then combined with basil and parmesan cheese and slow simmered until thick and flavorful.
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Equipment
- Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup yellow onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/3 cup dry white wine such as pinot grigio or sauvignon blanc
- 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1/2 cup basil leaves, shredded
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon capers, or to preference
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- kosher salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent, about five minutes.
- Add garlic and cook about three minutes more.
- Increase heat to high and add wine to deglaze.
- When wine has reduced, add the tomatoes, basil, sugar, and oregano. Then add salt, pepper, and capers to taste.
- Grate some fresh parmesan cheese over and serve.
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