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Garden Fresh Marinara Sauce

Author: Roz

Ingredients

  • 2 - 3 pounds fresh ripe red tomatoes (Roma's and any other variety you like)
  • 2 Tbsp. olive oil
  • 4 - 5 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/2 onion diced
  • 1 stalk celery with leaves diced
  • 1/2 a carrot diced
  • 1/2 bunch Italian parsley diced
  • 1 tsp. Sea Salt
  • 30 basil leaves minced

Instructions

  • Fill a large, deep pot full of water and bring to a boil.
  • Place the tomatoes in and cook them until the outer layers of skin/peel begins to crack.
  • In the meantime, in a large fry pan, saute the garlic, onion, celery, and carrots in the olive oil for only a few minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Remove the tomatoes from the boiling water as soon as the cracks appear.
  • Allow to cool.
  • When cool, remove the peel/skin with your hands and remove the green stem area.
  • In the fry pan with the sauteed ingredients, squeeze the tomatoes through your fingers into the fry pan to sort of 'mush them up'.
  • Add salt.
  • Cook the sauce mixture for about 20 minutes or until your desired level of doneness.
  • Add chopped basil and parsley.
  • Taste. Taste. Taste.
  • Serve over any pasta or in any dish that requires a tomato sauce.
  • Freeze in plastic (sorry not glass) containers.
  • Or can the sauce per safety instructions for canning/preserving food.