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Friday, November 21, 2008

Best Marinara Sauce Yet

Seth & I have been experimenting with marinara sauce and we tried this one from All Recipes.com which is really good and inexpensive. It was rated 5 out of 5 by 654 users.

2 (14.5 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
4 Tablespoons chopped parsley
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 Tablespoons olive oil
1/3 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup white wine (this is the original recipe but I used chicken broth instead - a lot of reviewers suggested that)

Directions:
1. In a food processor, place Italian tomatoes, tomato paste, chopped parsley, minced garlic, oregano, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth.
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, saute the finely chopped onion in olive oil for 2 minutes. Add the blended tomato sauce and white wine (or chicken broth).
3. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occaisionally.

We served this on top of whole wheat angel hair. We found a really good brand at Sprouts called Gia Russa - it's made in Italy so it's kind of expensive but it doesn't have that bitter taste that some brands do.

2 comments:

Kate said...

I can't wait to try!

Kate said...

I tried this tonight after reading some reader review changes on AllRecipes- I put extra garlic ~ 2 tsp, used dried parsley (that's all I had), added 1Tbsp brown sugar, omitted salt as I used chicken broth in place of white wine. It was very good!