Dinner

Kristi's Marinara Sauce is for Dinner.

Kristi's Marinara Sauce takes 60 minutes to prepare.

Kristi's Marinara Sauce takes 360 minutes to cook.

Kristi's Marinara Sauce makes 20 servings.

The ingredients for Kristi's Marinara Sauce are:

7 large tomatoes, chopped
6 cups cherry tomatoes pur?ed
2 medium squash (optional) chopped in ?" pieces
2 containers baby portabella mushrooms sliced
2 yellow onions
1 large garlic, yes you need the whole thing
? of it peeled whole cloves,
the other half of the cloves peeled and sliced
2 green peppers minced
2 jalape?os deseeded and minced
1 heart of celery chopped
2 cups grated carrots
2 6oz cans tomato paste
And 2 tablespoons divided each
Fresh basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, marjoram
? cup olive oil
? cup red cooking wine

Here is how you make Kristi's Marinara Sauce:

In a large heavy bottomed stock pot on medium high heat warm olive oil, once hot, saut? onions and green peppers. Now add carrots, celery and squash. Turn heat up a notch, cook a few more minutes. Add ? cup red wine and bring to a boil lower heat a notch and add mushrooms and jalape?os stir well and cover, simmering for five minutes. Now add all the tomatoes, large and cherry, as well as your garlic. Stir well lower heat to medium low, low and cover simmering for thirty minutes stirring occasionally. After thirty minutes add 1 tablespoon of all the spices, save one tablespoon each for later. Mix ingredients well and if possible let simmer all day stirring every 15 minutes or so. The sauce can be placed in a crock pot and set all day as well. Before serving, canning, or freezing, I add the last bit of spices or season to taste. Tips: If your sauce doesn't seem thick enough add a ? cup of corn starch and mix well.If you don't like a chunky sauce put sauce in a blender and pur?e half or all of the sauce.This sauce taste amazing with Hot Italian sausage mixed in. Just take meat out of the casings and brown like you would ground beef, add right in the sauce or, top your pasta dish with it.Number of Servings: 20Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MISS_KRISTI.

The nutritional information for Kristi's Marinara Sauce is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 20
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 79.6

• Total Fat: 3.3 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 147.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 11.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.9 g
• Protein: 2.5 g

Kristi's Marinara Sauce is Italian cuisine.

The dietary needs meet for Kristi's Marinara Sauce is Vegetarian