The Best Homemade Marinara Sauce
Sweet, flavorful, versatile, easy to freeze marina sauce that will make you never buy store-bought again!
Ingredients
- ¼ cups olive oil, divided
- 5 tablespoon minced garlic cloves (about 8 large cloves)
- 3 cups diced yellow onion
- 29 oz no salt crushed tomatoes (2 -14.5 oz. cans or about 3.6 cups)
- 1 ½ teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 tablespoon water (use to rinse out tomato can)
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Sauté onion and garlic in either a large skillet or medium-sized heavy bottom pot with 2 tablespoon olive on medium heat. Cook until translucent (about 5 minutes).
- Add canned crushed tomatoes, 2 more tablespoon olive oil, spices, water and bring to low simmer (only takes a minute or so). Decrease temperature to low for about 10-15 minutes.
- Turn off heat and let sit to cool slightly.
- Using blender or immersion blender blend all ingredients until smooth to your liking.
Notes
Be careful blending ingredients while hot. If using a blender such as Nutribullet wait until sauce has cooled some before blending.
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