This Homemade Marinara Sauce is so easy to make and it's so much better than the bottled stuff! The recipe includes mildly sweet San Marzano tomatoes, chopped onion, an abundance of garlic, fresh basil, as well as rich olive oil and a dab of butter.
Serve over spaghetti or tortellini with Parmesan for a simple, tasty dinner!
Easy Marinara Sauce Recipe
What does summer really mean? If you're lucky, it means you have an abundance of fresh basil growing in your garden so you need to find lots and lots of different things to do with it. I finally have a garden — er, well it's more of a little box garden but it's a garden all the same.
So I've grown peas, tomatoes, pumpkins, basil, cilantro, oregano, and thyme and I'm still waiting on the green onions and rosemary (those two haven't thrived like everything else. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I tried to grow way too much in a fairly small space. At least I kept the tomatoes and pumpkins growing elsewhere on their own).
I've grown herbs in my windowsill for many years, but they've just never thrived the way they do in a garden. I'm loving being able to go out and just snip what I need as it keeps growing!
One of my favorite things to do with fresh basil is make homemade marinara sauce. I fall head of heals for a good marinara sauce and it's so easy to make a good batch at home from scratch!
I used to go all out and make the fresh tomato marinara sauce. I'd have to boil and peel the fresh tomatoes, then seed them, and then crush them — it was a lengthy, tedious process.
Then I realized the canned San Marzano tomatoes are just as good for marinara sauce, and life got a whole lot easier. Really though, canned tomatoes are where it's at in my opinion. It's like how it goes with canned pumpkin — you just get consistent results with the canned San Marzano tomatoes.
This marinara sauce recipe is very easy to prepare, yet the end results are truly so delicious! You'd think with its fairly short list of ingredients it couldn't be this tasty but oh how it is!
Toss it with pasta, add a fair sprinkling of shredded Parmesan and final touch of fresh basil ribbons and you've just reached dinner goals!
Just don't forget the fresh crusty Italian bread of some kind (even if it's store bought) and some good olive oil and freshly cracked pepper to dip it in. Good carby meals like so are some of my favorite! Read More »
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