Homemade Marinara Sauce

Marinara Sauce | Homemade 

Let’s make delicious homemade Marinara Sauce.

Preparing the Homemade Marinara Sauce

Let’s make our homemade marinara sauce. You can make this recipe with a high powered blender, but today I’m using my KitchenAid Hand Blender and Accessories Kit, which is a high powered blender, chopping attachment, and high-powered whisk all-in-one.

I recently did a comprehensive review of this device, which you can view here: KitchenAid Hand Blender and Accessories Kit Review.

Please note: if you are using a high powered blender, you will need to transfer the vegetables from the pot into the blender after initial cooking, blend them, then transfer them back into the pot to finish cooking. 

If using an immersion or hand blender, like I am, you can do everything in one pot, which is what I recommend. 

This sauce will yield roughly 28 oz, which is about 7 servings.

In a medium pot, drizzle about 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil. Add 3 cloves garlic, 28 oz plum tomatoes (which is 8-10 tomatoes) and 1/2 white onion chopped into 4 pieces.

Turn the burner onto medium, cover and allow to cook for about 10 minutes, stirring often, until all ingredients are cooked through. I stir just about every 2 minutes.

Then turn burner off. Add 4 tbsp fresh basil, 1 tsp Italian seasoning, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1 tsp sea salt, and 1 tsp ground pepper.

If you have a non-stick pan like I do, use the pan guard on the blender arm. Twist the blender arm onto the motor body to lock into place, plug in your device (unless you opted for the cordless version), then use the hand blender in the pot to pulverize the vegetables until they become pureed.

You will easily understand the technique involved. The power button won’t be pushed at all times in the beginning. You will sit the blender on top of each large vegetable then gingerly press down, easily pulverizing them. When drawing the hand blender up, you will stop pressing the power button, to avoid splashing.

When the primary pulverizing is done, you will go in a circular motion with the hand blender until it’s entirely pulverized. This whole process takes about 2-3 minutes. 

Remember, you never want the motor body portion of the hand blender to be submerged, but you want the mixture to be deep enough for splashing to be at a minimum. It’s important to pick the right sized pot to accommodate this sweet spot in the height of your recipe. 

When finished, we add 1 bay leaf, stir it in, turn the burner back on to medium low, cover, and allow to simmer for 15 minutes.

Once your sauce is done, give it a taste to make sure you don’t need to adjust the spices. Then add it to your favorite pasta or vegetable noodle. It also works great as pizza sauce.

Here is a recipe for Zucchini Noodles in Homemade Marinara Sauce that I love. 

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!