Best 10 Mamas Marinara Sauce Recipes
Welcome to the ultimate guide to finding the best recipe for a delicious and authentic "Mama's Marinara Sauce"! Whether you're a seasoned home chef or just starting out, this comprehensive article will provide you with all the information you need to create a delectable marinara sauce that will transport you straight to Italy. Get ready to embark on a culinary journey as we explore the secrets of creating the perfect marinara sauce, just like Mama used to make.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
MAMA'S MARINARA
In culinary school, I learned the term Mother Sauce, which refers to a sauce that is the base for other sauces. When I opened Rocco's and was developing the recipes for it, my cooks and I joked that marinara was "Mama Saucer" because it is an ingredient in many other dishes, and of course it's the mother of all sauces. It is also excellent on its own, especially with fresh pasta, which is more porous than dried pasta and therefore grabs the sauce and thickens it. I encourage you to make this in large quantities and keep it on hand in glass or plastic containers. It will keep in your refrigerator for weeks or your freezer for months. Once, when I was a kid, my mother and aunts slathered it all over my back, thinking it would cure "the itchies." I was probably riddled with lice or poison ivy, but whatever it was, they prescribed marinara. At least the trauma of that experience made me forget about the itchies.
Provided by Rocco DiSpirito
Categories Cookstr Recipes
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cook the garlic and onion in the olive oil in a sauce pot over a medium-low flame, about 10 minutes or until garlic is tender and onions translucent, not brown (this is called "sweating" because it will draw out a lot of moisture and flavor).
- Add all the tomato products. Pour the chicken stock into one of the 28-ounce cans. Fill it the rest of the way with water and add that and the sugar to the pot. Stir and bring to a simmer. Taste and season with red pepper flakes and salt, and cover. Simmer the sauce for about 1 hour. The sauce should be fairly thin but not watery and very smooth. Uncover and simmer for 3 minutes. If it is too thin for your taste, add a little water if it seems thick.
MY MOTHER'S MARINARA SAUCE
Provided by Alex Guarnaschelli
Time 1h10m
Yield about 2 quarts
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onions, the garlic, red pepper flakes, and sugar and season with salt, to taste. Stir in the carrots and reseason with salt. Cook for about 2 minutes, and then add canned tomatoes. Use a wooden spoon to break up some of the whole tomatoes and cook over medium heat, stirring from time to time, about 20 minutes. If at any point the veggies or the sauce is getting dry, add some water. Continue cooking another 10 minutes, and then taste for seasoning. The tomatoes should be fairly broken down and the flavors coming together. Cook an additional 10 minutes. The sauce cooks about as long as it takes to make the meatballs from start to finish, about 45 minutes. Stir in the basil leaves and season with Parmesan.
CLASSIC MARINARA SAUCE
Steps:
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until it just turns golden, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes, Italian seasoning, basil, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of fresh pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 7 minutes. Take off the heat and stir in the butter until melted. Add salt and pepper to taste.
MARINARA SAUCE
Spice up your homemade marinara sauce with one of our delicious variations including creamy vodka and Puttanesca.
Provided by BHG Test Kitchen
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In an 8-qt. Dutch oven heat oil over medium. Add onion and garlic; cook 3 to 5 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, 30 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally.
- To serve, serve 1/2 cup sauce over every 1 to 2 cups hot cooked pasta.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 44 kcal, Carbohydrate 9 g, Protein 2 g, Sodium 272 mg, Sugar 6 g, Fat 1 g, UnsaturatedFat 0 g
MAMA'S MARINARA
Make and share this Mama's Marinara recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Nat Da Brat
Categories Vegetable
Time 2h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Cook the garlic and onion in the olive oil in a sauce pot over a medium-low flame, about 10 minutes or until garlic is tender and onions translucent, not brown (this is called"sweating" because it will draw out a lot of moisture and flavor).
- Add the chili flakes to taste.
- Add all the tomato products.
- Pour the chicken stock into one of the 28-oz cans.
- Fill it the rest of the way with water and add that and the sugar to the pot.
- Stir and bring to a simmer.
- Taste and season with salt and cover.
- Simmer the sauce for about 1 hour (the sauce should be fairly thin, but not watery and very smooth).
- Uncover and simmer for 3 minutes if it is too thin for your taste; add a little water if it seems thick.
MAMA'S MARINARA SAUCE
I saw this recipe on the back of a Hunt's Tomato Paste can and tried it with some variation. It's a nice quick sauce for when you want "homemade" but fast.
Provided by CookingONTheSide
Categories Sauces
Time 20m
Yield 11 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan on medium-low heat.
- Add garlic and saute gently for about 2-3 minutes.
- Combine tomato paste and water in the saucepan; blend in tomatoes.
- Add fresh parsley.
- Heat over high heat until sauce begins to boil.
- Reduce heat; simmer 10 minutes.
- Add salt and/or pepper, to taste.
- Serve over hot, cooked pasta.
- Or try as a dipping sauce for breadsticks, pizza crust, fried cheese sticks or vegetables.
MY MOTHER'S MARINARA SAUCE
Provided by Alex Guarnaschelli
Time 32m
Yield 2 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a medium skillet, over medium heat, add the olive oil. Stir in the onions, carrots, garlic slices, and red pepper flakes. Season with salt, to taste, and cook for about 2 minutes. Add the sugar and the canned tomatoes, breaking them up with a spoon, and mix well. Cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes over medium heat, stirring from time to time. Taste for seasoning, then stir in the basil leaves.
MAMA LEONE'S ITALIAN TOMATO SAUCE (GOOD FOR MANY USES)
I grew up across the street from a real Mama Leone-an amazing Irish woman who had an Italian husband and a live-in Italian mother-in-law who taught her to cook. This awesome recipe was a neighbourhood favourite. It has been equally popular with everyone who has ever tasted it. It is an all-purpose Italian sauce. I usually make it for spaghetti and have added optional instructions for that purpose. Without the meat, it is vegan friendly. It's also a good pizza sauce base. You can add other herbs, spices and vegetables if you like, but we have always kept it simple. That's why once it was a lifesaver for a friend who is allergic to garlic. The sauce freezes extremely well.
Provided by Leggy Peggy
Categories Sauces
Time 3h10m
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Put all ingredients (except the meat and onions) in a large pot.
- Stir well and bring to a boil. Continue to stir occasionally until it boils, so the cinnamon is incorporated.
- Reduce to a simmer and cook for three to four hours. Continue to stir occasionally. You can speed up this step, if you leave it on a boil, but I think the flavour improves if it is not rushed.
- The sauce needs to cook until it bloops-namely until the sauce splashes out of the pot and makes a bit of a mess on the stove top (or wall in my case).
- Remove and discard the chillies and bay leaves.
- What to do next if you intend to serve this sauce over pasta. Saute the beef until it loses most of its pink colouring, then add the onions and saute until tender.
- Drain off any fat.
- Add meat mixture to cooked sauce and stir well.
- Heat the mixture well, then ladle over pasta.
MAMA'S MARINARA SAUCE AND MEATBALLS
In culinary school, Rocco DiSpirito learned the term Mother Sauce, which refers to a sauce that is the base for other sauces. When he opened Rocco's and was developing the recipes for it, he and his cooks joked that marinara was "Mama Saucer" because it is an ingredient in many other dishes, and of course it's the mother of all sauces. It is also excellent on its own, especially with fresh pasta, which is more porous than dried pasta and therefore grabs the sauce and thickens it. I encourage you to make this in large quantities and keep it on hand in glass or plastic containers. It will keep in your refrigerator for weeks or your freezer for months. His mama is known better for these meatballs than she ever could have imagined. In Italy, meatballs, or polpette, are usually a lot smaller and, weird as it may seem, never eaten with pasta. They are served alone or in soup. In the United States, they became a lot bigger and are eaten alone, on heros, with spaghetti, and even on pizza. There are a lot of meatballs out there, folks, and I'm sure you have tasted your fair share, but I believe these are the best meatballs in the world. I can't, to this day, pinpoint what it is that makes them so phenomenal; I think it is largely the fact that you mix and roll them by hand. They are not dense like many meatballs, but they also don't fall apart in tomato sauce. It's not just my bias speaking here; everyone loves them. People who hate pork love them; people who never go near veal can't get enough. Vegetarians make exceptions for them. I encourage you to make these meatballs your own. Your kids will love something you make by hand, too.
Provided by By The Lake
Categories Meat
Time 3h
Yield 20 meatballs, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- MAMA'S MARINARA SAUCE.
- Cook the garlic and onion in the olive oil in a sauce pot over a medium-low flame, about 10 minutes or until garlic is tender and onions translucent, not brown (this is called "sweating" because it will draw out a lot of moisture and flavor).
- Add all the tomato products. Pour the chicken stock into one of the 28-ounce cans. Fill it the rest of the way with water and add that and the sugar to the pot. Stir and bring to a simmer. Taste and season with red pepper flakes and salt, and cover. Simmer the sauce for about 1 hour. The sauce should be fairly thin but not watery and very smooth. Uncover and simmer for 3 minutes. If it is too thin for your taste, add a little water if it seems thick.
- MAMA'S MEATBALLS.
- Place the chicken stock, onion, garlic, and parsley in a food processor and purée.
- In a large bowl, combine the puréed stock mix, meat, bread crumbs, eggs, Parmigiano-Reggiano, red pepper flakes, and salt. Combine with both hands until the mixture is distributed evenly. Do not overmix.
- Put a little olive oil on your hands and form the mixture into balls a little larger than golf balls. They should be about ¼ cup each, though if you prefer bigger or smaller, it will only affect the browning time.
- Pour about ½ inch of olive oil into a straight-sided, 10-inch-wide sauté pan and heat over a medium-high flame. Add the meatballs to the pan (working in batches, if necessary) and brown the meatballs well on all sides. This will take about 10 to 15 minutes.
- While the meatballs are browning, heat the marinara sauce in a stockpot over medium heat. Lift the meatballs out of the sauté pan with a slotted spoon and put them in the marinara sauce. Stir gently. Simmer for one hour.
- Serve with a little extra Parmigiano-Reggiano sprinkled on top.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 455.8, Fat 27, SaturatedFat 7.3, Cholesterol 124.2, Sodium 1096.6, Carbohydrate 29.9, Fiber 5.7, Sugar 14.5, Protein 26.4
MAMA'S MARINARA SAUCE
Make and share this Mama's Marinara Sauce recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Johnney
Categories Sauces
Time 45m
Yield 1 1/2 Quarts
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan on medium-low heat.
- Add garlic and sauté gently for about 2 minutes.
- Add the crushed tomatoes.
- Stir gently and add red wine, and herbs.
- Cover and let simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Simmer for another 10 minutes and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 745.9, Fat 38, SaturatedFat 5.3, Sodium 2280.1, Carbohydrate 74.8, Fiber 16.2, Sugar 40.1, Protein 9.4
Tips:
- Use ripe, flavorful tomatoes. This is the key to a great marinara sauce.
- Don't overcrowd the pot. If you add too many tomatoes to the pot at once, they won't cook evenly. Add them in batches if necessary.
- Simmer the sauce for at least 30 minutes. This will allow the flavors to develop and deepen.
- Season the sauce to taste. Add salt, pepper, and other seasonings to taste. You can also add a pinch of sugar to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes.
- Serve the sauce over your favorite pasta. Marinara sauce is a classic pasta sauce, but it can also be used on pizza, chicken, or fish.
Conclusion:
Marinara sauce is a delicious and versatile sauce that can be used in a variety of dishes. It's easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy meal, give marinara sauce a try. You won't be disappointed.
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