Homemade Marinara Sauce

By dette

Can also be called pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce. This is a tasty, flavorful, “meet-any-of-your-tomato-sauce-needs” kind of sauce.

Ingredients

• 1/2 whole Celery Stalk
• 1/2 whole Onion
• 1/4 whole Green Pepper
• 2-1/4 cups Tomato Juice
• 1/2 teaspoons Chili Powder
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 Tablespoons Dried Parsley Flakes
• 1 teaspoon Paprika
• 1/8 cups Sugar
• 1/4 cups Ketchup
• 1/8 cups Grated Parmesan Cheese
• 1/2 teaspoons Oregano
• 1/2 teaspoons Garlic Powder
• 1/2 teaspoons Dry Mustard
• 1/4 teaspoons Black Pepper
• 8 ounces, fluid Tomato Paste (or 12 Oz, If Needed To Make Your Sauce Thicker)

Details

Servings 2
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 40mins

Preparation

Step 1

Cook celery, onion and green pepper in a medium sauce pan in a small amount of water until very soft. (or you could also cook in a small amount of tomato juice). Puree in a blender until smooth. Put puree back in the pan and add other ingredients. Bring to a rolling boil.

Turn heat down and simmer for about 20-30 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened. Serve hot or cold.

Yields approximately 2 pints.

This sauce is great with breadsticks.
Great with spaghetti.
Great with pizza.
Great with you-name-it.

Note: My recipe is for home canning and makes a batch of 34 pints. I put in my best efforts at converting those quantities into small amounts. Hopefully this will come out right. (Do taste-tests and make adjustments if needed.)

If anyone is interested in a larger quantity, see “Marinara Sauce To Can” in my recipe box for my canning recipe.

**Edited to change sugar quantity from 1/4 cup to 1/8 cup.