World's Best Marinara

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.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 40 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Calories: 75 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ground black pepper to taste
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 teaspoons dried basil
• 1 sweet onion, diced
• 1 (28 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (8 ounce) package fresh mushrooms, chopped
• 2 tablespoons oregano
• 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, torn
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 0.5 teaspoon dried sage

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Stir tomato sauce into seasoned onion-mushroom mixture; cook over low heat until flavors have combined, 30 minutes.

Step 2

Transfer half the sauce to a blender; blend until smooth. Return to saucepan with the remaining sauce; stir to combine.

Step 3

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.