Marinara Sauce

Marinara (mariner’s) sauce is a South Italian tomato sauce. The most of basic recipes has tomatoes, garlic, herbs and onions. It’s pretty good to serve with pasta, rice or even seafood.

I prepared this sometime this week to serve with pasta (pasta alla marinara as Italians would call it) and some broccoli on the side.

Ingredients:

3 cloves of garlic finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon ginger crushed

1 onion chopped

4 tomatoes diced

Dried herbs, i used basil and oregano

Salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

First put quite an amount of water in a big saucepan, season with salt and bring that to a boil. The water is for cooking the pasta. Then start to prepare the sauce.

In a saucepan fry the onions, ginger and garlic.

Season with the salt and black pepper

Once the onions are tender, add the tomatoes.

Add the herbs- basil, oregano and parsley

Cover the saucepan and let the tomatoes cook down.

Add some little water and cover.

After around 10 minutes of simmering over low-medium heat

Remember the pasta should be al dente. Drain the water over a colander.

Pasta draining.

Return the pasta into the saucepan. Then pour the marinara sauce over the pasta.

Toss the pasta to ensure the sauce is well distributed.
Dinner: Pasta alla marinara

Garnish with fresh basil leaves, if you have and serve immediately.

We had this with some stir fried broccoli.

Verdict:

Delicious, the pasta was just right and the seasoning in the sauce was flavourful. Once can basically have this as a full meal on it’s own.

 

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