Marinara Sauce

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This is a great marinara sauce recipe. I have been trying to find a marinara that is simple, fresh, and "low-maintenance". This is it. It's easy and tastes great. It's also a great base for vodka sauce, tomato-basil sauce, etc. Just add additional ingredients. I try to have some in my freezer at all times...if it lasts! Thanks Giada!

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Sorry Giada. I have made several of your recipes and every single one has been a hit with the fam until now. This sauce was awful. It tasted like V8. I used it in lasagna last night and we're finishing the rest of it tonight. With food prices the way they are, I couldn't bring myself to throw it out but I am sorry to say it was not a favorite. Oh well. You can't hit a home run every time.

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This sauce is an excellent base for you to put whatever you want in it. Everyone has specific tastes in pasta sauce so be creative and don't forget to taste as you go. I tripled the recipe, used a lot of extra garlic and 3 teaspoons of sugar. I also added a big bunch of chopped fresh basil during the last 20 minutes of cooking and a few tablespoons of butter to cut the acidity. It was really very simple. I used the food processor to chop every thing and blended it all together when it was done cooking for the right consistency. The sauce was perfect and exactly how my husband and I like it. We stored the extra sauce in the twist top ziplock containers and froze it. Now we can have homemade sauce when we want it.

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I have made this sauce twice. Both times it was excellent and very, very easy to make. The second time I burnt the sauce where there was a solid black crust on the bottom of the pot. When I started to simmer the sauce it was incredibly sweet, but after burning it, I had to add a little brown sugar and it was truly excellent. I will never, ever buy a marinara sauce again. This is so simple and tastes 100 times better than anything you get in a jar -- or in a restaurant!

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This recipe is wonderful. Being Italian I was looking for something that I could make my own. By taking the basic ideas of this recipe I have done so much like turn it into a bolognese by adding beef or lamb, deglazing with wine to add a richer, deeper flavor, and using diced tomatoes for a different texture. Add some sugar to compliment the tomatoes and you have the perfect base! Thank you Giada.

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I ended up adding a couple more seasonings (basil and oregano, and some unsalted butter. I had seen Giada make this sauce in another recipe where she added unsalted butter a little at a time if the sauce tasted acidic so that's what I did. Also put it in the food processor to smooth it out, also as I had seen her do when she made this with meatballs some time ago.

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this is my go-to marinara recipe. made it again this weekend to accompany my chicken meatballs for a superbowl party. it never disappoints!

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This Marinara recipe is delicious!!

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Like others, I am a convert from jarred Marinara sauce. Next time I think I'll use my immersion blender for a smoother consistency. I added a couple more cloves of garlic cuz that's just how we are around here. Everything else was perfect. This is in my recipe file forever!

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I made this recipe for a dinner party not having practiced with it in advance. It was so easy and delicious. My guests were impressed that it was homemade. The only change I made was to use 5 cloves or garlic and that worked for me.