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Kitchen Basics : Marinara Sauce: Pasta/Pizza Sauce

Make a batch of this delicious marinara sauce (pasta/pizza) and store in the fridge or freezer! Use as a pizza sauce, pasta sauce or just as a dip! Delicious!

It is that time of the year again, when tomatoes are dirt cheap. My street vendor was selling them for Rs3/kg this morning. Yes that cheap. And this is also the time I stock up on the tomato goodness for a while – tomato pickle, sun-dried tomatoes, pasta sauce, marinara sauce and this year, I am even thinking of making a tomato ketchup.

marinara sauce

For me Marinara sauce is a pantry staple, has to be there at home ALL the time. And that this makes for child’s most favorite and easiest to put together pasta helps too.

 

Boil the pasta, stir fry some veggies, dunk the sauce and voilà dinner or lunch box ready in minutes. Making the sauce is time-consuming yes but fairly simple and it doesn’t need much of your attention, anyway.

 

 

The use of this sauce is not limited to pasta. I use it for pizzas, I use it sometimes for sandwich spreads, as a dip. It can even be used as a sauce to be had with grilled chicken or grilled fish. Truly a multi use sauce! I do love these simple make in advance and store and use kind of recipes. Like molagapodi. You can make a batch in no time and it lasts for weeks. (Well, not in our house, but am saying!) Or a simple saunth which stays fresh for a long time. Then you don’t have to worry about making fresh chutney everytime you make something!

I really admire our elders who came up with some awesome recipes as kitchen hacks to save time. You make a batch and store and when you are in a rush, you can make something really basic and these kitchen hacks can be used to add that extra zing to your meal 🙂

 

Source – various internet sources put together.

Kitchen Basics : Marinara Pasta/Pizza Sauce

Make a batch of this delicious marinara pasta/pizza sauce and store them in airtight containers! Use as a pizza sauce, pasta sauce or just as a dip! Delicious!
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Course condiments
Cuisine Italian

Ingredients
  

  • 25 - 30 tomatoes large
  • 10 - 15 pods garlic finely chopped
  • 3 onions medium sized finely chopped
  • 2 red bell peppers finely chopped
  • 6 tbsps butter
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 2 tbsps balsamic vinegar
  • olive oil
  • Handful basil fresh leaves
  • salt
  • chilli powder or paprika
  • 1/2 cup white wine (I think red should do too), optional

Instructions
 

  • Heat water in a wide bottomed pan, add tomatoes and blanch them, until they are cooked enough for the skin to peel off. Peel the tomatoes when cold. Chop them roughly.
  •  Add butter and olive oil to the same or another pan (I used the same), add garlic and saute for 2-3 minutes. Add and let it cook well. I like to caramelise the onions at this stage but cooking them only till soft will work. Add the tomatoes at this stage and mash them a bit using a wooden spatula or potato masher. Let it stew.
  • After about half hour of the tomatoes stewing, add the herbs, I added basil like I mentioned in the recipe but you can add thyme, oregano or any other herb you have handy. For me the combination of tomatoes and basil is like a match made in heaven. At this stage add the chopped red bell peppers also. You can also oven or gas roast your red peppers before adding them to give a slightly different flavour. Also add the wine at this stage if you are using it.
  •  After stewing it for 30 more minutes, check the flavoring and add more salt if needed, paprika (use if possible since it gives a nice red color but doesn't make it very spicy), the balsamic vinegar and stir well. Let it cook for another 30 minutes.
  •  After 30 minutes the sauce should be thick and tomatoes nicely cooked. Let it cook and puree it if you like at this point. I like it chunky but since the resident brat, O likes it not chunky. I pureed it.
  •  Store in clean, dry sterilised bottles for upto 10 days in fridge and upto 6 months in the freezer.

Notes

So what are you waiting for, make a batch and tell me what else are you doing with those tomatoes?
 
 
 
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Comments

  1. Anita Menon says

    February 5, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    Tomatoes will never be cheap where I stay 🙁 But I am loving the idea of a home made sauce like this!

    Reply
  2. Rekha says

    February 5, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    Looks like I can manage it without a disaster. 😀 Will try it out sometime soon. Hubby and kids love Pasta too. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  3. http://stylebees.com says

    February 5, 2014 at 2:51 pm

    loved the idea of making pizza/pasta sauce at home, best use of tomatoes at this rate 🙂

    Reply
  4. sangeetakhanna says

    February 7, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    Oh yes. My pantry staple too, and I make egg scramble with it too 🙂
    I would try it with balsamic vinegar next. Never did that.

    Reply
  5. Aa's Mom says

    February 8, 2014 at 1:23 am

    Yummy!! Tomatoes are cheap here too now! Will make this! Pinning!

    Reply
  6. Nidhi J says

    February 8, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    I will have to shift where you live. my street vendor is selling tomatoes for rs. 30/kg 🙁 But that is not going to stop me from trying this sauce. pinning it.

    Reply
  7. Swathika Anandan says

    March 6, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    I bought them thinking of this recipe in mind and especially when the hawker sold them for 2 kgs for 10 rupees 😀 one can’t resist it! And I also remembered Prats giving rave reviews for this recipe of yours! So marinara sauce here I come! and thanks for sharing it with the public 😀

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Monika is an ex-IT person turned into a food blogger, consultant, home baker and an amateur food photographer. She loves music, writing, food, and travel, but not necessarily in that order ;)

Sin-A-Mon Tales is a canvas for her food memories. Apart from Sin -A- Mon Tales, Monika also writes for many online websites and publications. She's an avid reader and can always be found with a book in her bag, which mostly is as bright as her. She's an obsessive traveler and is always looking for the next food story. Read More…

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