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Homemade pasta sauce recipe

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Learn how to make pasta sauce at home with simple and easy steps. Step by step pictures for easy understanding.
It’s a long time wish for me to make pasta sauce at home. I love pomodoro, arrabiata sauces from Pastamania and love the pasta sauce with carrots that they serve in IKEA. I like IKEA sauce better as it has veggies and its sweet in taste too. So after browsing few recipes, I took an idea from this post and tweaked the recipe to suit my taste buds. It came out great, tasted and smelt so good. So here is the recipe. It’s very easy to make with simple ingredients you have in your pantry. Now a days kids love pasta more, so why not make your own pasta sauce? Will be handy for your kids when they come back from school!

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Pasta-sauce-recipe

Homemade pasta sauce recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Italian  |  Recipe Category: Main course
Prep Time:20 mins     |  Cook time: 30 mins     |  Serves: 3 | Author:
Learn how to make pasta sauce at home with simple and easy steps. Step by step pictures for easy understanding.

Ingredients

Red ripe tomato – 4
Tomato puree(canned) – 1/4 cup
Yellow onion – 1
Carrot – 1
Brown sugar / white sugar – 1 tbsp
Mixed Italian seasoning – 1 tsp
Crushed red pepper(chilli flakes) – 1 tsp
Crushed black pepper – 3/4 tsp
Olive oil – 4 tbsp
Garlic – 4
Corn flour(white) – 1/2 tsp
Salt – As needed

Method

  1. Boil enough water and drop the tomatoes and wait for a minute. Take out and cool down. Peel off the skin.

    2. how to make pasta sauce step 1

  2. Blend this tomato and keep a side. Chop carrot into tiny bits. Chop garlic and onion finely. Heat a pan with oil and add garlic, give a quick stir taking care not to change the colour of garlic.

    3. how to make pasta sauce step 2

  3. Add onion and give it a stir. Add the chopped carrots. Add a tsp of sugar.

    4. how to make pasta sauce step 3

  4. Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame, add ground tomato and the canned tomato puree.

    5. how to make pasta sauce step 4

  5. Transfer to a sauce pot. Add 1/4 cup water and bring to boil. Add salt, remaining sugar and the Italian seasoning. Crush between your palm while adding. Add crushed red and black pepper.

    6. how to make pasta sauce step 5

  6. Simmer for 5 minutes and lastly add corn flour dissolved in 2 tbsp of water. Boil until oil separates and the sauce becomes shiny and thick.

    7. how to make pasta sauce step 6

Notes

  • Use red ripe tomatoes. I used canned puree for the colour.
  • Adding carrots is optional, but I love the sweetness it adds to the sauce.
  • Adding brown sugar or white sugar reduces the acidity of tomatoes.
  • Add olive oil generously as mentioned.
  • Adding corn flour is for thickening and its purely optional.

Cool down and transfer to a jar and keep refrigerated, use within 4 days.
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Comments

  54. Rohini

    Looks too yummy Raji.. I was looking to buy store bought pasta sauce for a party.. But I am not going to!!! 🙂
    One doubt, how long does it stay fresh when refridgerated? Can I make it a couple of days in advance?

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  64. upma

    Loved your site, lots of wonderful receipe.
    I would like to know the glass utensils 's name which you can use for heating/cooking as well, I am seeing this for the first time and always looking for options to replace steels utensils for cooking as I have heard that they are good for food.

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  66. upma

    so many wonderful recipes. glad to come across your site.
    Can you pls. let me know which glass utensils you are using on flames, seeing for first time.

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