World's Best Marinara
Description
This homemade marinara sauce is ready in less than one hour and filled with a variety of herbs, mushrooms, and onions. Serve with your favorite pasta.
Ingredients
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1 tablespoon olive oil
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1 sweet onion, diced
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4 cloves garlic, minced
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1 (8 ounce) package fresh mushrooms, chopped
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1 red bell pepper, diced
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1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, torn
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2 tablespoons oregano
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2 tablespoons white sugar
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2 teaspoons dried basil
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1 teaspoon dried rosemary
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1/2 teaspoon dried sage
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1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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ground black pepper to taste
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1 (28 ounce) can tomato sauce
Directions
1
Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, red bell pepper, and parsley; cook and stir until mushrooms are slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add oregano, sugar, basil, rosemary, sage, red pepper flakes, salt, and black pepper; stir to combine, 2 minutes.
2
Stir tomato sauce into seasoned onion-mushroom mixture; cook over low heat until flavors have combined, 30 minutes.
3
Transfer half the sauce to a blender; blend until smooth. Return to saucepan with the remaining sauce; stir to combine.