Marinara Sauce Recipe

Homemade Marinara Sauce is quick and rather easy to make at home, and tastes immensely better than the store bought one. Try this recipe and thank me later. Here is how to make it.

Course: Basics

Cuisine: Italian

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings: servings

Calories: 69kcal

Author: Neha Mathur

Homemade Marinara Sauce is quick and rather easy to make at home, and tastes immensely better than the store bought one. Try this recipe and thank me later. Here is how to make it.

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Ingredients

2 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive oil
2 teaspoon Garlic Minced
¼ cup Onion Minced
2 Bay Leaf
2 tablespoon Fresh parsley Chopped
1 teaspoon Dried Parsley
750 g Crushed Tomatoes
1 teaspoon Red chilli flakes
2 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoon Fresh basil Chopped

Instructions

Heat oil in a pan.
Once the oil is hot, add garlic and fry for a few seconds.
Add onion and bay leaf and fry for a minute.
Add fresh and dried parsley and fry for a minute.
Now add tomatoes, red chilli flakes, salt, sugar, black pepper and basil and cook the sauce for 50 - 60 minutes.
Keep stirring in between.
Discard the bay leaves once the sauce is cooked.
Adjust the salt and black pepper to taste.
Cool the sauce and refrigerate for up to a week.

Notes

I have used canned crushed tomatoes to make this recipe but you can use fresh tomatoes as well.

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