One Pan Pantry Marinara Sauce is ready in 30 minutes. Simple and delicious, it is made with pantry ingredients and is preservative free!
Making Pantry Marinara Sauce (using common pantry staples) is a lot easier than it seems. The recipe prep time is about ten minutes, then the sauce simmers for another 30 minutes to meld all the flavors.
It has no preservatives and you can add more or less of whatever you like. It makes the whole house smell wonderful too!
What You’ll Need to Make One Pan Pantry Marinara Sauce
- Olive Oil – We use extra virgin olive oil but any olive oil, avocado oil, vegetable oil or canola oil may be used for this recipe.
- Onion – We typically use yellow onion but white onion, purple onion or shallots may be used instead.
- Crushed Tomatoes – We use canned, crushed tomatoes. Feel free to substitute whole tomatoes (crushed up with your hands) for a more rustic, chunky sauce.
- Brown Sugar – Adding brown sugar cuts the acidity of the tomatoes and creates an overall more balanced sauce.
- Pantry Spices – Dried basil, oregano and parsley. Feel free to add more or less based on your taste. Consider adding fennel, rosemary or red pepper flakes!
- White Wine – Adds flavor and the alcohol cooks off during the simmering process, Chicken broth may be substituted.
Why Should I Make Homemade Marinara Sauce?
In our house, it seems like all pasta sauce is referred to as spaghetti sauce.
In reality, there are actually four differences between spaghetti sauce and Marinara sauce.
Marinara sauce is the thinner, meatless version of spaghetti sauce. It is relatively inexpensive to buy but making your own takes only 30 minutes and allows you to cut out all preservatives and add your own spin to it.
This One Pan Pantry Marinara Sauce is easy and delicious!
Quick & Easy Video: How to Make One Pan Pantry Marinara Sauce
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One Pan Pantry Marinara Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 small onion chopped
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 cans crushed tomatoes 15 oz
- 1 can tomato paste 6 oz
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 cup white wine or chicken broth
Instructions
- Heat 1/4 cup of olive oil over medium-high heat in a deep skillet.
- Once it begins to shimmer, add the chopped onion and garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes, until the onion begins to soften.
- Add both cans of crushed tomatoes and the tomato paste to the onion and garlic mixture and stir well to incorporate.
- Add brown sugar, salt and pepper, parsley, oregano, basil and white wine to the tomato mixture and stir until well incorporated.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sauce will thicken a bit.
- Add salt, pepper, and any additional desired spices to taste. Use right away, refrigerate for up to 48 hours or freeze for up to a month. Enjoy!
* The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
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