Magnificent Marinara Sauce
So as you can see in the vegan lasagna photo above, I like a lot of marinara sauce with my pasta. And I was a bit heavy-handed with the sauce ladling that day but it was just so good. Because sometimes you gotta have a little pasta with your bowl of sauce, ya know what I mean?
Anyway, It’s not a fancy recipe. And it’s nothing too tricky. It’s just throwing together a few ingredients, a little simmering, and voila! Before you know it, you have a mouth-watering marinara of your own!
Should have made this marinara sooner!
I mistakenly believed a good marinara sauce was complicated and time-consuming. Now if only I started making homemade marinara sooner! Because it wasn’t a big undertaking, like I thought, after all.
The store-bought jars were my way around a marinara sauce. Whatever. Because when my four kids were little there wasn’t a lot of extra time to look up a recipe, let alone make one.
There was homework, dance class, gymnastics, football, softball, baseball, and lacrosse. And boy scouts, girl scouts, playdates, and music practice, and, and, and, everybody had something going on like every day of the week! Wow, flashback. (Deep breath in, deep breath out).
So, yeah, sauce in a jar. Done.
But now, I’ve found, it was never really that difficult to make a nice homemade marinara sauce. Who knew?! 😉 Because it just simmers while the pasta is cooking or while you make a salad. And no wasted time.
No shame
But I’m not here to shame anyone for using a jar no matter how easy this sauce is. I still keep a jar, like Victoria’s Vegan Sauces, in the cupboard. Because it still comes in handy. And I’m not going for the Martha Stewart wannabe award in this lifetime. Although, secretly, I did aspire to that unattainable dream once upon a time. Yup, I was most definitely a closeted Martha fangirl.
So, anyway, I hope you like our Magnificent Marinara Sauce! And I hope you find, as I did, that great taste doesn’t have to involve an overabundance of effort or time.
Buon Appetito!
P.S. Incorporate our marinara sauce into the Lovely Luscious Vegan Lasagna!
It also delivers in our Elegant Eggplant Parmesan.
And try our Perfect Parmesan-vegan style sprinkled on top!
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Magnificent Maranara Sauce
Ingredients
- 28 ounces diced tomatoes
- 14 ounces tomato sauce
- 10 ounces bruschetta sauce can use another 14 ounces diced tomatoes in place of bruschetta
- 1/3 cup red wine
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened apple sauce can use sugar instead
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons sliced garlic about 4-6 cloves
- 3-4 leaves basil, chopped or 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Heat olive oil on medium heat in a large skillet.
- Add sliced garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes -until fragrant, not brown.
- Add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and bruschetta- or additional diced tomatoes if not using bruschetta- and basil, oregano, salt, and pepper.
- Cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add in wine and apple sauce.
- Simmer on low for about 30 minutes.