Easy Tomato Marinara Sauce for Pasta and Pizza

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Easy Tomato Marinara Sauce for Pasta and Pizza Marinara Sauce is a versatile recipe that has many uses. This Marinara sauce is very easy to make – blanching the tomatoes and simmering them with basic ingredients; that’s all!

Fresh Tomato and Bell Pepper Marinara Sauce is the best sauce you can ever make at home for pasta. Its versatility finds its way into toppings for Veggie pizza and gravies for pan fried fish and chicken. Store bought sauces sometime taste very sour due to preservatives added. You have no such dilemma with this homemade Marinara Sauce.

It is advisable to have stocks of sauces such as Schezwan Sauce from Dried Red Chili , Hot Fresh Chili Garlic Sauce; pastes like Fresh Coriander Paste; and chutneys like Tamarind Chutney, and Coriander Mint Chutney in your kitchen to avoid last minute rush and make life easier.

What’s special in this Tomato Sauce

This Marinara sauce is made with locally available fresh tomatoes. No canned stuff! Basil leaves are optional. Do not miss out on adding green bell peppers. This gives a unique flavor to the marinara sauce along with onions, garlic, dried thyme, basil and oregano. More ever, It can be made chunky or smooth.

I have been making this sauce long before I knew that it was a Marinara Sauce. It was a recipe that I created out of my instinct and experience,  only to realize that this recipe actually  exists and popular as Marinara sauce. Wow to my instincts! It is an absolutely tried and tested recipe that can never go wrong. So let’s get started!

Ingredients for Fresh Tomato and Bell Pepper Marinara Sauce

For Measurements refer to the RECIPE CARD further below

• Fresh tomatoes – Use vibrant red and ripe tomatoes having rich pulp . You may peel them before blanching.
• Garlic – peeled and roughly chopped.
• Onion – Chopped
• Bell peppers – Green variety preferred.
• Oil – use extra-virgin olive oil.
• Dried herbs – oregano, thyme, basil
• Spices – red chili flakes, black pepper powder, sugar and salt

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How to make Marinara Sauce from Scratch

With step by step instructions

Making the Tomato Puree

In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan blanch the tomatoes and make a puree.

For this you made a little water.

Making Marinara Sauce

In another pan , warm the  extra virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add onions and saute for a while.

Then add chopped garlic and stir fry for a few minutes till fragrant and light golden in color.

Add the chopped bell peppers and saute.

Thereafter add the spice – thyme, basil, oregano, chili flakes and salt. Saute well for a minute.

Finally, add the tomato puree and bring to simmer.

Reduce the flame and cook till the sauce thickens.

Lastly add some black pepper powder and sugar.

Storage

Once prepared and cooled it stays good in the refrigerator for 4-5 days; longer in the freezer.

Tips:

1. Use good quality tomatoes- thin skin, few seeds, lots of pulp, read and ripe.
2. Only lightly saute the garlic. We want the aroma of garlic and not the bitterness of burnt garlic

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Recipe

Easy Tomato Marinara Sauce for Pasta and Pizza

Marinara sauce is made by blanching the tomatoes and simmering them with basic ingredients; that's all!! It can be made chunky or smooth.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Sauces, Side Dish

Cuisine Italian

Servings 4 people

Equipment

• 1 Saucepan
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 Wide pan

Ingredients

  

• 500 gm whole ripe and red tomatoes. You may peel them before blanching
• 6-7 cloves large cloves garlic peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 pc small onion sliced
• 1/4 cup diced green capsicum
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• ½ – 1 tsp dried oregano
• ½ – 1 tsp dried thyme
• ½ – 1 tsp dried basil
• ½ tsp red pepper flakes
• ½ tsp black pepper powder
• ½ tsp to 1 tsp sugar or as needed
• salt to taste

Instructions

 

• In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan blanch the tomatoes and make a puree.
• In another pan, warm the extra virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add onions and sauté for a while.
• Then add chopped garlic and stir fry for a few minutes till fragrant and light golden in color.
• Add the chopped bell peppers and sauté.
• Thereafter add the spice – thyme, basil, oregano, chili flakes and salt. Sauté well for a minute.
• Finally, add the tomato puree and bring to simmer.
• Reduce the flame and cook till the sauce thickens.
• Lastly add some black pepper powder and sugar.

Notes

Tips:
Use good quality tomatoes.

Only lightly saute the garlic.We want the aroma of garlic and not the bitterness of burnt garlic.

Keyword cooking sauce, Pasta, Pizza, Tomato

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