Ben's Marinara Sauce

There are many versions of  marinara sauce.  Some have a few more herbs or other foods that are added to the sauce.  This is a very simple tomato sauce recipes that work with anything. The can be used for pizza, pasta and seafood.  You can add meat, spinach or cheese that can make a new sauce.  Marinara sauce to me is like the base sauce and it can be used to make other sauce like 4 cheese tomatoes sauce, meat sauce and along with others.  This sauce is so simple that the flavor is just perfect.  Chef Ruby taught me that you don't have to add too many new things to a sauce to make it great. 


Marinara Sauce Ingredients:

4 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil

2 tablespoon of mince garlic (fresh)

2 cans(35 oz) of peeled tomatoes.

S&P (salt and pepper)

2 tablespoon of chope fine basil leaves (fresh; I get mine from my garden)

I start out with a pot on the stove.  The oil and and garlic are put in at mediem high temperature.  Don't brown the garlic but stir it until it releases its flavor.  That is what makes a big difference in the way the flavor at the end comes out. Once its there, get 2 cans of whole peeled tomatoes and pour it in with the juice.  Don't worry about the whole tomatoes being whole it will break down durring the cooking process and it will be pureed at the end. The canned tomatoes I use and suggest using is called "Cento" but any will work. Add about 4 pinches of salt and pepper.  Stir the sauce with a wisk and set the temputer at a simmer.  Let it cook for about 30 to 45 mins. Stir occasionally. This will help the flavor to speard.  With the basil leaves, chop them fine and put them in the sauce about 5 min until the sauce is done. Stir it in.  When done, remove from the stove and puree the sauce until there no big lumps of tomatoes. There you have it.  You can jar it and save it for latter.  It makes a great pizza sauce and like I said before you can add anything like meats, mushrooms, or cheese to make other sauces. Refrigerate the rest.  It can last about 2 to 3 weeks.

- Chef Ben



Look out for some upcoming recipes where I will be using this Amazing Marinara Sauce!

Eggplant Parmesan

Eggplant fries with Marinara Dipping Sauce