Hearty homemade pasta sauce

This homemade tomato sauce is full of nutritious ingredients. It may be vegan but the veggies in it are hearty enough that you won’t even notice! It’s slow simmered to develop a depth of flavor and goes wonderfully with any pasta dish, on top of pizza or even toast!

I love pasta and I have always tried to be more adventurous with my pasta sauces but I always keep coming back to tomato based sauces. Cream and olive oil based sauces are nice but I don’t get the same feeling of satisfaction out of them than when I have mine with tomato.

Maybe it’s because I find tomato sauce to be a lighter healthier fair so it means that I can eat more pasta and heap on more sauce without a second thought 😛

Either way, I love my tomato sauce and the thing that makes it all the better is the fact that tomatoes are actually more nutritious when they are cooked!

I know that there are millions of marinara sauce recipes out there on the interweb but I always go back to this one because it’s the first one that my mother deer ever taught me. Ever since, it’s the only one that I keep going back to because it brings back so many memories.

Here and there I’ll add in things to make it more “my own” but you just can’t beat your mother’s original recipe.

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Homemade pasta sauce recipe