Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, basic marinara. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Rely on a large Dutch oven or stockpot because this recipe makes enough marinara sauce for several meals. All Reviews for Basic Marinara for the Instant Pot®. Just waiting for meat, meatballs or sausage to be added. Homemade marinara is almost as fast and tastes immeasurably better than even the best supermarket sauce — and it's Classic Marinara Sauce.

Basic Marinara is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Basic Marinara is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have basic marinara using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Marinara:

1. Make ready medium tomatoes (firm but ripe is best)
2. Get small onion
3. Prepare whole garlic bulb
4. Make ready vodka
5. Prepare red wine
6. Make ready dried and grated parmesian
7. Prepare paprika (for color)
8. Make ready salt, black pepper and chili to taste (I use sea salt and habanero)
9. Make ready cumin (optional)

In addition to the Basic Marinara, you can also make Meat Sauce, Mushroom Sauce, Puttanesca, and Amatriciana by adding in different ingredient combinations. However, it is nice to know that a basic marinara sauce requires few ingredients, minimal preparation, and only some time to simmer for robust flavor. Here's the thing about marinara sauce - it is SO easy to make at home, there is just no reason to buy it at the store. Basic Marinara Sauce. by Diamond Joe.

Instructions to make Basic Marinara:

1. Prep all your fresh veggies by dicing your tomatoes, mincing your onion, and peeling and thinly slicing your garlic.
2. WARNING! Remember to season the veggies with only a little bit of salt and not to put too much because all the salt will add up in the end.
3. Then sauté your your garlic and onion one by one in the same pan (or pot), making sure to remove them from the pan and set them aside for for later.
4. Next, sauté your tomatoes and when softened enough, use a potato masher to crush your tomatoes into a paste.
5. Now add your garlic and onion back into the pan with the tomatoes.
6. Add your vodka and wine to the pan, along with all of your seasonings (except for the parmesian) and make sure to mix thoroughly.
7. Simmer the sauce until the alcohol is almost cooked through and then add the parmesian last, making sure to mix as you pour and only a little at a time so that it doesn't clump up.
8. Voíla! And you're done! I suggest your serve this as 4-8 tbs of sauce per 1 c of pasta. And feel free to add some fresh basil on top.
9. NOTE: If you don't have or like vodka, you can use any other hard liquor of your choice as long as you stick to a 1 part to 2 part ratio. One part hard liquor to two-part red wine. The red wine unfortunately is non-negotiable since it adds a really nice smell to the sauce. But don't feel like you have to spend it any big amount of money on either the hard liquor or the red wine, I just use the cheapest I can find and it works pretty well.
10. NOTE: And as long as your tomatoes are crushed somehow, it doesn't matter what you use to do it, you can even use a fork if you'd like. Just make sure that it is thoroughly crushed into a paste.

Here's the thing about marinara sauce - it is SO easy to make at home, there is just no reason to buy it at the store. Basic Marinara Sauce. by Diamond Joe. There's just something so satisfying to me about making a pot of homemade marinara instead of opening up a jar! This basic marinara sauce will change pasta night for good. We have several and this basic "Marinara (Tomato) Sauce" is considered an essential at our house.

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