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Home » BREAKFAST-DINNER » Homemade pasta sauce recipe

Homemade pasta sauce recipe

October 24, 2012 by Raks Anand 38 Comments /

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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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Homemade pasta sauce recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Italian  |  Recipe Category: Main course
Prep Time:20 mins     |  Cook time: 30 mins     |  Serves: 3 | Author: Raks anand
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

  3. 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.
  4. how to make pasta sauce step 2

  5. Add onion and give it a stir. Add the chopped carrots. Add a tsp of sugar.
  6. how to make pasta sauce step 3

  7. Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame, add ground tomato and the canned tomato puree.
  8. how to make pasta sauce step 4

  9. 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.
  10. how to make pasta sauce step 5

  11. 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.
  12. 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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  1. Sowmya Sundararajan

    October 24, 2012 at 8:43 am

    Good one Raji

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  2. Veena Theagarajan

    October 24, 2012 at 8:55 am

    I can smell it here! very nice

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  3. APARNARAJESHKUMAR

    October 24, 2012 at 9:05 am

    nice click raji 🙂 waiting for the recipe !

    Reply
  4. Vimitha Anand

    October 24, 2012 at 9:12 am

    Homemade is the best… Nice colorful sauce

    Reply
  5. WeR SAHM

    October 24, 2012 at 9:19 am

    very tasty and tangy sweet sauce Raji….
    Ezcookbook

    Reply
  6. Vidhya

    October 24, 2012 at 10:55 am

    Mouth watering sauce…looks so tasty

    Reply
  7. Archana

    October 24, 2012 at 11:10 am

    delicious one. love the colours and as u say all ingredients are in my pantry.

    Reply
  8. anusha praveen

    October 24, 2012 at 11:52 am

    i can imagine the burst of flavors raji and carrots are a delicious twist to the sauce

    Reply
  9. Ramya

    October 24, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    That looks soo awesome Raks..Just like the store bought Prego sauces:-)

    Reply
  10. Kaveri Venkatesh

    October 24, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Awesome looking sauce….would love to try this

    Reply
  11. jeyashrisuresh

    October 24, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    It tasted awesome too raji, pretty clicks.Love ur version

    Reply
  12. Akila

    October 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    longing for this recipe for a long time… thanks for sharing dear…

    Reply
  13. Az

    October 24, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    Came out so perfect!

    Reply
  14. ANU

    October 24, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    wow awesome lookin pasta sauce….home made is always better…
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  15. Priya

    October 24, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Super tasty homemade pasta sauce na, fantastic and flavourful.

    Reply
  16. Vidya Vasuki

    October 24, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Really nice. Did we use the canned puree just for the color? How do we do without using it?

    Reply
  17. Vijitha

    October 24, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    I make my own marinara sauce. I top it with sphaghetti squash and add some meat balls too. Love you version too.

    Reply
  18. divya

    October 24, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    wow very tempting recipe,luks gr8!

    Reply
  19. GEETHA ACHAL

    October 25, 2012 at 2:03 am

    Wow…Looks so cool…Tempting sauce…

    Reply
  20. Anonymous

    October 25, 2012 at 4:22 am

    Love a good homemade pasta sauce with fresh spices 🙂

    Reply
  21. Hema

    October 25, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    What gorgeous clicks, and the sauce looks so good..

    Reply
  22. Anonymous

    October 25, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    Hi Raks,

    I love your blog… been looking out your recipes since long… lovely pictures!!

    Reply
  23. Anu

    October 25, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    Sauce looks so tempting. Neat presentation

    Reply
  24. Premalatha Aravindhan

    October 26, 2012 at 9:12 am

    delicious sauce,lovely clicks…

    Reply
  25. Priti S

    October 26, 2012 at 11:03 am

    One of my fav … I too add carrot …looks too gud

    Reply
  26. Sharmilee! :)

    October 26, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    Wow lovely color and perfect pasta sauce, lovely clicks too!!

    Reply
  27. Rohini

    October 26, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    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?

    Reply
  28. Shaivi

    November 5, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Amazing…and ur pics make it seem easy. Goood one

    Reply
  29. Nivedhanams Sowmya

    November 11, 2012 at 2:44 am

    yummy and so rich in taste!!!
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  30. notyet100

    November 21, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    I love the presentation in the first pic,

    Reply
  31. Damian Bathory

    December 3, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Wow. It's almost as if you run your own kitchen or catering company. That recipe was amazing and looks really delicious.

    Reply
  32. upma

    January 30, 2013 at 12:56 am

    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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  33. upma

    January 30, 2013 at 12:56 am

    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.

    Reply
  34. RAKS KITCHEN

    January 30, 2013 at 12:57 am

    Its called VISIONS. Just google it, you will find it.

    Reply
  35. Philos Ss

    May 21, 2014 at 11:25 am

    how many calories in 1 tbsp of pasta sauce?

    Reply
  36. kanaga

    February 25, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    hi..pls post homemade tomato sauce too��

    Reply
  37. Bhuvaneshwari magesh

    July 13, 2020 at 2:14 am

    Hi raji,I am tried your recipes and came out very well in first attempt. olive oil is good for cooking.pls clarify

    Reply
    • Raks Anand

      July 14, 2020 at 2:13 pm

      Yes it is good, I like it for such Italian recipes, fried rice, soup kind of recipes. Otherwise I prefer our regional oils just make sure I buy coldpress wood press oils.

      Reply

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