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Homemade Marinara Sauce

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Can also be called pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce. This is a tasty, flavorful, “meet-any-of-your-tomato-sauce-needs” kind of sauce.

Ingredients

  • ½ whole Celery Stalk
  • ½ whole Onion
  • ¼ whole Green Pepper
  • 2-¼ cups Tomato Juice
  • ½ teaspoons Chili Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ½ Tablespoons Dried Parsley Flakes
  • 1 teaspoon Paprika
  • ⅛ cups Sugar
  • ¼ cups Ketchup
  • ⅛ cups Grated Parmesan Cheese
  • ½ teaspoons Oregano
  • ½ teaspoons Garlic Powder
  • ½ teaspoons Dry Mustard
  • ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
  • 8 ounces, fluid Tomato Paste (or 12 Oz, If Needed To Make Your Sauce Thicker)

Preparation

Cook celery, onion and green pepper in a medium sauce pan in a small amount of water until very soft. (or you could also cook in a small amount of tomato juice). Puree in a blender until smooth. Put puree back in the pan and add other ingredients. Bring to a rolling boil.

Turn heat down and simmer for about 20-30 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened. Serve hot or cold.

Yields approximately 2 pints.

This sauce is great with breadsticks.
Great with spaghetti.
Great with pizza.
Great with you-name-it.

Note: My recipe is for home canning and makes a batch of 34 pints. I put in my best efforts at converting those quantities into small amounts. Hopefully this will come out right. (Do taste-tests and make adjustments if needed.)

If anyone is interested in a larger quantity, see “Marinara Sauce To Can” in my recipe box for my canning recipe.

**Edited to change sugar quantity from 1/4 cup to 1/8 cup.

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Lisa Hammer on 9.12.2014

I’m looking for a sauce with a sweetness… I think I found my sauce!

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allisonmarcum on 3.28.2011

Made this sauce and it was delicious but I’m quite sure she didn’t mean to put 1/4 cup of sugar…made the sauce VERY sweet! Perhaps she meant 1/4 of a tsp? Anyways, be sure to just put a pinch in and add more to your taste! :)

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mebeneet61 on 1.1.2011

I made this sauce today, I do really like the flavor, just the kinda taste I was looking for. I think next time, I would cut back on the sugar though. Thanks for sharing your recipe

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rozanie on 8.2.2010

And yeah, to the above question about freezing it…I’ve never tried it, but don’t know why that wouldn’t work!

If you are interested in doing larger quantities, you could use my recipe to can this, but cut in half or fourths, whatever quantity works for you.

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rozanie on 8.2.2010

Sorry, I should have commented on here earlier. (I’m still learning how all this works…. ;) )
That recipe for canning marinara sauce is in my recipe box.
Try it. Then let me know what you think! :)

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Crystal on 2.15.2012

I wish I could give this 10 stars! I’m embarrassed to admit it but I just ate about a cup of this with a spoon. It’s that good. I didn’t try the big batch for canning so I can’t comment on whether or not it comes close, but I can’t imagine it gets better then this. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!

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erinraatjes on 7.29.2010

I made this last night – then used it in the lasagna recipe…. SO good! My husband said we should put this in the keeper folder!! :)
I used some home canned tomatoes for the tomatoe juice… just mushed them up really well. Looking forward to enjoying some left overs! Thanks for posting.

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