marinara sauce

How To Make marinara sauce

• 1

  Put just enough olive oil to cover the bottom of a dutch oven or stock pot. Saute garlic until gently brown. Add tomato paste to oil and garlic and continue to gently saute for only a few minutes.
• 2

  Add the Italian crushed tomatoes and all other dry ingredients (and wine if you are using it). Stir and bring to a boil. Lower heat to simmer, stirring occasionally to prevent sauce from sticking to the bottom.
• 3

  Allow sauce to simmer for 3 hours. (You will have to continue to stir sauce to prevent burning). After 3 hours, remove sauce from heat and allow to cool. At this point you can refrigerate or freeze.
• 4

  This sauce can easily be doubled or even tripled to make enough for several meals. Also, you can add meatballs, sausage, pork or beef while simmering and you will have a great meat sauce.
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