A great and easy to make Marinara Sauce is perfect for the pizza base sauce or as a tomato sauce for your children’s snacks/meals.
All you need is just a few ingredients, that most of you will have in your pantry and about 20 minutes of time.
To start you need to peel and chop about 3-4 garlic cloves. You can add more garlic if you like.
Heat up the oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and fry for about 30 seconds, or until fragrant. Do not let the garlic burn.
Add a can of chopped tomatoes to the frying pan with garlic.
Add half a cup of water, dried basil, freshly ground black pepper and season with salt. Here you can any other spices that you like, cayenne, chilly, oregano, etc.
Bring the sauce to boil, lower the heat to low and simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The sauce will thicken, as the liquid evaporates. You can reduce the sauce even more to make it even thicker, just keep an eye on it, not to burn it.
Taste the sauce and add more seasonings if needed.
After the sauce has reached your desired consistency, it is ready to be used in your homemade pizza or as a dipping sauce. If you, or your kids like the sauce to be uniform, press it through a fine sieve, or blend it in a blender.
Enjoy!
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Homemade Marinara Sauce
Ingredients
- 400 grams canned tomatoes, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ cup water
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Instructions
- Start off by peeling and chopping the garlic.Heat up the oil in a medium frying pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and fry until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Do not burn the garlic.
- Add the canned tomatoes. Add the water, basil, salt and pepper. If you want to add more spices, cayenne, chilli, oregano, etc, now is the time.Bring to boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.The sauce will thicken up as the liquid evaporates.You can reduce the sauce even more if you like, but keep an eye it ans stir more often as it thickens.
- The sauce is ready to be used as soon as it reaches your desired consistency. Enjoy!
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