Weeknight dinners

Made with yellow onion, garlic and crushed tomato. 30 min, 1.5, 13 ingredients.

Recipe by lifestyleofafoodie.com

Prep

5 min

Cook

25 min

Total

30 min

Makes

1.5

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 large yellow onion (finely diced)
• 4 large garlic cloves (minced)
• 2 14 oz crushed tomato cans
• 2 tbsp water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tbsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1/2 tbsp basil paste

Instructions

Method by lifestyleofafoodie.com. Cook it from their page if you can, so the people who developed and tested it get the visit.

1. In a large pot, heat butter and olive oil over medium heat. Add in the finely diced onion and minced garlic and cook for 5 minutes or until soft.
2. Add in the crushed tomatoes, water, salt, sugar, black pepper, red pepper flakes, dried oregano, tomato paste, and basil paste. Give the ingredients a good stir, bring to a boil, then simmer uncovered for 20 minutes or until the sauce reaches your desired consistency.
3. I blend about 1 cup of the marinara sauce and mix it back with the rest of the marinara. you could do that using a hand blender before serving.
4. Serve this quick flavorful marinara with pasta or anything you use marinara with.