20-Minute Homemade Marinara Sauce with Canned Tomatoes
Homemade marinara sauce is so easy to make, and way more tasty than store-bought alternatives. Ready in 20 minutes, it’s made with basic pantry ingredients and is great to have on hand to add to your favourite pasta or pizza recipes. Great for canning and freezing!
Servings 3.5 cups
Calories 243kcal
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2 yellow onions (small) peeled and diced
- 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 tsp sea salt more to taste
- ¼ tsp dried oregano
- pinch chili flakes
- 28 ounce canned whole tomatoes (796 mL)
- 1 fresh basil sprig finely chopped
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring often the onion turns translucent, about 5 minutes. Lower the heat slightly, add the salt, oregano, and chilli flakes and cook for another 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Transfer the oil-spice mixture to a blender with the canned tomatoes. Blend on high until the tomatoes are smooth and no large chunks remaining, about 30 seconds.
- Pour the contents of the blender back into the original pot. Move the pot back onto the element on med-low heat to simmer. Add the chopped basil and stir to combine throughout the sauce (or add the basil directly to the blender and pulse a few times, until chopped). Taste and add more salt if desired.
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Notes
1. This sauce can be customized based on your taste. If you like a garlicky sauce, add a few more cloves, if you like more spice, make your pinch of red pepper flakes a little bigger. Taste and add more sea salt and oregano as desired.
3. Nutrition information is for the entire recipe (3.5 cups of marinara sauce). The sauce typically feeds 4 people.
Nutrition
Calories: 243kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Sodium: 991mg | Potassium: 505mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 275IU | Vitamin C: 25mg | Calcium: 89mg | Iron: 3mg