Marinara Sauce

2 or 3 Fresh Medium Tomatoes chopped and put in blender.

4 cloves of garlic

1/4 of an onion

*Mince garlic and chop onion into smaller pieces then put into deep dish frying pan in 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Sautee the garlic and onion making sure not to burn it.

2 cups of chicken stock from bullion. Place 1 cup in pan with garlic and onion put the other cup in the blender with the chopped tomato.

1  6oz can of tomato paste. Add to blender.

1  14 oz can of diced tomatoes drain juice from can into pan and add 1/2 to 3/4 of diced tomatoes to blender. Put remaining diced tomatoes in pan.

*Puree the fresh chopped tomatoes, 1 cup of chicken stock from bullion and diced tomatoes then pour into pan.

Add 1 teaspoon each of sugar, salt, pepper and dried sweet basil.

Stir all ingredients together bringing to a low simmer. Simmer for 1/2 hour or until sauce thickens.

 

 

You can choose to add mushrooms for a mushroom marinara sauce.

 

We added meat balls to this sauce at a low simmer for 1 & 1/2 hours.

*Depending on the size of meat balls the simmer time may need to be increased. Our meat balls were about the size of a golf ball.

Meat balls in marinara sauce.

Dinner served with a fresh green salad.