Marinara Sauce
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 10 cups whole canned tomatoes
- 4 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons dried basil
- 4 -6 garlic cloves (to taste)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon chrushed red pepper
- 2 -4 teaspoons sugar
directions
- Put tomatoes with their juice in large heavy kettle. Use a potato masher to break up.
- Add tomato paste.
- Rinse out tomato paste cans with water and add that water to the pot.
- Add bay leaves, parsley, oregano, basil, garlic, red pepper & sugar.
- Bring to a boil and immediately reduce heat so sauce will simmer gently.
- Simmer for 3-5 hours, stirring occasionally. The longer this sauce cooks, the better it tastes.
- Add a small amount of boiling water if sauce seems to be too thick. We like our sauce fairly thick.
- You may add browned ground beef when the sauce is ready or your favorite meatball.
- Serve over your favorite cooked pasta.
- It's also a wonderful sauce for lasagne.
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Reviews
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Wow. I had to make marinara for around 30 people for a fund-raiser for church. Decided on this one because I could scale it up. It was delicious. I put in more garlic and red pepper than it called for. I had one pot of regular marinara, and fried up some Italian sausage, and added it to the other pot. Lots of people enjoyed it. I had been using crushed tomatoes previously, going to stick with this recipe from now on.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Julie in TX
Amarillo, Texas