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Jess' Marinara Sauce
Jess' Marinara Sauce <p>Whenever a family recipe gets passed down, there's great reason for it - it's delicious! <a href="/videos/profiles/about-jess">Jess</a> has been kind enough to share her mother's recipe for Marinara sauce - serve it over pasta or over a nice meatball Parmesan sandwich. Mmm-mmm. This recipe is a keeper. Print it, get stains on, use it until it's dog-eared and falling apart. By then you'll have it memorized.</p>

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Whenever a family recipe gets passed down, there's great reason for it - it's delicious! Jess has been kind enough to share her mother's recipe for Marinara sauce - serve it over pasta or over a nice meatball Parmesan sandwich. Mmm-mmm. This recipe is a keeper. Print it, get stains on, use it until it's dog-eared and falling apart. By then you'll have it memorized.

Ingredients

  • 2 28-oz cans crushed tomatoes
  • 3 12-oz cans tomato paste
  • 1 green bell pepper chopped
  • 1 large red onion minced
  • 1 stalk celery minced
  • 2-3 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • ½ tsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp oregano
  • 2 tsp chili powder
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp red pepper flakes
  • ½ handful parsley, dried or fresh

How-to

Pre-heat stockpot over medium-low heat

  1. Add crushed tomatoes and tomato paste and mix well
  2. Add bell pepper, red onion, celery and garlic and stir
  3. Sprinkle salt, pepper, oregano and chili powder over mixture and stir
  4. Add crushed red pepper
  5. Stir in parsley
  6. Mix all ingredients well
  7. Cover pot 3/4 of the way to allow steam to escape
  8. Let simmer on low for 8-10 hours

Comments (2)

  • Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 1:05 am by Terry Torres:
    After being raised on much lighter and thinner marinara sauces, this recipe was just so delightfully hearty. I don't know if I'll ever go back.
  • Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 12:33 am by Lauren Schumacher:
    Most marinara sauces I've tried fall into one of three categories: bafflingly sugary, predictably basil-dominated, or tasting like a mouthful of moderately chunky ketchup. This sauce is none of those things. Delicious...very flavorful. And it freezes well! Brava, madam.

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