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Easy Homemade Marinara

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Ditch that jar of pasta sauce and prepare an easy homemade marinara for meals all week! Be sure to reduce the sauce in a sauté pan and add sugar to taste – this is not a recipe for a sweeter marinara!

Ingredients

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  • 2 28 oz cans whole peeled tomatoes
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 1 large carrot (Peeled, finely chopped)
  • 1 large onion (Outer layers peeled and cut in half)
  • 12 cloves of garlic (ends removed, smashed)
  • 4 large bay leaves
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • ½ tsp Diamond Crystal kosher salt (or ¼ tsp table salt)
  • Additional salt and/or granulated sugar, to taste, as needed

Instructions

  1. Prepare carrot, onion and garlic
  2. Combine canned tomatoes, onion halves, smashed garlic cloves, carrot, bay leaves, oregano, salt, and olive oil in a large sauté pan.
  3. Stir to mix, smashing some of the tomatoes with a spoon or spatula.
  4. Bring mixture to a low boil and then drop to a simmer.
  5. Simmer the sauce for 2.5 hours.
    Note: Please note that your sauce will take longer to reduce if you use a taller pan rather than a wide pan. For example: Using a saucepan instead of a sauté pan will increase cook time.
  6. Leave uncovered to reduce, and stir periodically. Smash tomatoes as you go.
  7. At the end of the cooking time, remove the bay leaves and onion halves.
  8. Smash any remaining intact tomatoes and garlic cloves with a spatula or spoon.
  9. Add salt and/or sugar to taste.*

Notes

* When I prepare this marinara I do not add any additional salt and I do not use granulated sugar. The nutrition information is estimated as such.

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