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Five Ingredient Pasta Sauce

March 24, 2016 by 918 Plate 7 Comments

This is my go-to pasta sauce. It can easily be scaled up or down, and is bright and flavorful without the day-long simmer of a traditional marinara sauce. It’s also super quick and easy, and is perfect for a weeknight meal. This time, I made a double batch for my community group. But it’s often the base for much that we do around here. (It would probably also be a great pizza sauce.)

This five ingredient pasta sauce is a quick fix for a bright dish for the whole family. It's perfect for a weeknight meal, and you may have all the ingredients already in your pantry. 

I can’t wait until my garden starts growing for this year! I planted seeds for the first time this year and they started to sprout this week! Soon you may see a lot of kale recipes… I also planted garlic back in November, so I hope that I am able to make this sauce again with my very own garlic.

Even though people typically frown on things in cans, nobody seems to bat an eye with tomatoes. However, I also use this recipe as a more summery version with fresh ones when the garden is hoppin’. As I’ve mentioned before, San Marzano tomatoes are so delicious. It’s okay to use San Marzano “style” or even regular canned peeled tomatoes, it just doesn’t have quite the same “drinkability” factor. But I made it this week with a mix of San Marzano and regular and it still turned out delicious!

This five ingredient pasta sauce is a quick fix for a bright dish for the whole family. It's perfect for a weeknight meal, and you may have all the ingredients already in your pantry. 

My homegrown item for this recipe is my very own basil plant, which I had showed you grew like crazy this summer. I froze large amounts of them with a little olive oil and a food processor and packed them into little cubes. It was quite the amount packed into each cube, so one of them sufficed for the whole sauce. I’d use 20 leaves or so to pack in the same basil flavor as my cube.

What have you planted? What’s your favorite recipe to cook from things you grow?

#enJOY!

xxHillary

This five ingredient pasta sauce is a quick fix for a bright dish for the whole family. It's perfect for a weeknight meal, and you may have all the ingredients already in your pantry. 
3.5 from 2 votes
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Five Ingredient Pasta Sauce

Course Entree
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4
Author 918 Plate

Ingredients

  • 1 T. olive oil
  • 1 cube of frozen basil or about two handfuls of chopped fresh basil (homegrown)
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic pressed
  • 1/2 t. sea salt
  • 1 28 oz can San Marzano tomatoes crushed by hand

Instructions

  1. Crush tomatoes by hand in a bowl (it's fun).
  2. Heat oil in a saucepan on medium heat.
  3. Add pressed garlic and bail to the oil.
  4. Pour in tomatoes. Either leave on medium or turn down to low-medium to heat through.
  5. Serve when hot!
  6. #enJOY

This five ingredient pasta sauce is a quick fix for a bright dish for the whole family. It's perfect for a weeknight meal, and you may have all the ingredients already in your pantry. 

Filed Under: Entree, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Tagged With: pasta, pasta sauce, san marzano, tomato, tomato sauce

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Comments

  1. Liz @ Ready to Yumble says

    March 24, 2016 at 10:15 am

    Ah yes, the pasta sauce “drinkability” factor! Crucial! I LOVE the idea for freezing basil …our plants always take off and we make a lot of pesto–and freeze some of that –but I’ll have to try just freezing the basil cubes. Looks great!

    Reply
    • Farmer Chris says

      March 24, 2016 at 10:29 am

      2 stars
      I like this review… Drinkabilty is awesome!!?

      Reply
      • 918 Plate says

        March 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm

        Thanks! 🙂

        Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      March 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm

      Yes! We just give them a whir in the food processor with some olive oil 🙂

      Reply
  2. Dawn @ Girl Heart Food says

    April 5, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Looks delicious and who doesn’t love a good pasta sauce?! I’ve attempted several times to grow basil and haven’t had any luck. However, I can grow lots of thyme, oregano and mint. Fresh herbs are the best, aren’t they? Love that you froze the basil. Great way to preserve it when you have too much to use. So convenient!

    Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      April 6, 2016 at 8:07 am

      Thanks, Dawn! I hope you keep trying with basil! The more you cut, the more it grows. My thyme died last summer but I got a new plant last weekend. Best of luck with your plants!

      Reply
  3. Kelsey says

    June 14, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    5 stars
    Love this!!!!!!

    Reply

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