When you need a marinara sauce in a flash that tastes like it took all day to simmer to perfection, this sauce delivers! Aromatic, bold, and ultra-satisfying, this Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce tastes out-of-this-world delicious! Nothing compares to homemade Italian marinara sauce, and this saucy goodness is ready in 10 minutes! Incredibly tasty, it is sure to make all your Italian dishes come alive with flavor!
Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no highly processed ingredients.
Hi there, Ameera here!
This homemade Italian marinara sauce is easy to make and utterly delicious. This sauce tastes like it simmered for hours to perfection, yes, it is really that good! It’s amazing with pasta, as an add-in, and for delicious dipping, and we are super excited to share this recipe with you.
Sauce Yumminess
Mom and I were on a mission to make a fast and easy marinara sauce that hit all the high notes that make a great sauce. It is bold, full of great flavor, thick, easy, and takes less than 10 minutes to make.
Annnnd the best part: it is healthy, refined sugar free, oil free, and made with minimally processed ingredients! Now how cool is that?
Bold and Flavorful
We had Dad taste test this sauce, but we didn’t tell him that it was a fast and easy sauce. He absolutely loved it. He honestly thought we had been simmering it on the stove all day.
Normally, he is home to see if the sauce had actually simmered on the stove all day as he is retired, but lately he has all these lunch dates with tons of his buddies that last the better part of most days. He spends hours with them discussing the New York Giants. He is a NY Giants fan through and through.
Italian Baked Zucchini Fries
This sauce is perfect for pasta drenching, but we also love this beautiful sauce with our Italian Baked Zucchini Fries. Oh my goodness, what a great combination! If you would like to learn more about the zucchini fries, stay tuned – recipe coming this Friday!
I’ll let Mom tell you more.
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Hi! Robin here!
Monkey made this incredible marinara sauce to go with the zucchini fries, but I was like “Girl, this sauce is SO good that it deserves its own post!”
I really can’t wait for our readers to try our marinara sauce and the zucchini fries dish! So tasty!! We would love for you to try this recipe!
If you try this flavorful sauce, we would love to know if you enjoy it as much as we do! Please leave us a review! Post a picture on Facebook or Instagram and tag us! We would love to hear from you.
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Products Used:
- Small stock pot
Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce
- Prep Time: 3 Minutes
- Cook Time: 7 Minutes
- Total Time: 10 Minutes
- Yield: about 2 cups 1x
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
Description
When you need a marinara sauce in a flash that tastes like it took all day to simmer to perfection, this sauce delivers! Aromatic, bold, and ultra-satisfying, this Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce tastes out-of-this-world delicious! Nothing compares to homemade Italian marinara sauce, and this saucy goodness is ready in 10 minutes! Incredibly tasty, it is sure to make all your Italian dishes come alive with flavor!
Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no highly processed ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1 – 15 oz. can tomato sauce
- 2 Tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 Tablespoon + 2 teaspoons organic maple syrup (+/- to taste)
- 1 teaspoon miso *
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 Tablespoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt (+/- to taste) *
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients in a small stockpot, whisk well to combine, then simmer for 7 minutes, taste test and adjust seasonings accordingly.
- Use immediately or refrigerate until ready to use.
Notes
*Miso: We used Miso Master Organic Mellow White Premium Lite Miso, Certified Gluten Free. Miso really lends itself to balancing flavors when you don’t use oil. If you are going to live the Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle, then you will quickly find that miso is your friend.
*Sea Salt: Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.
*Serving: Makes about 2 cups
*Storage: Use within 7 days.
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Sounds great! Can this be frozen?
Hi there Joanie 🙂
Thank you so much. Yes, this recipe freezes well.
-Ameera and Robin 🙂
Does this have a sweet taste? If so, can I just leave out the maple syrup? I prefer a savory tomato taste.
Hi there Donna 🙂
Thank you so much for reaching out to us. In our opinion, this is not a sweet style Italian sauce as we too prefer a savory sauce. The maple syrup helps to reduce the acidic quality in the tomatoes. You can always leave it out. Or at the end, add one teaspoon of maple syrup, stir it in. Then taste test the sauce and add little maple syrup at a time, continuing to taste test in between, until you have the right amount for your personal preference.
-Ameera and Robin 🙂
Thank you. I will try this. I love your site, and every recipe I have tried is wonderful.
Awesome!!! We are SO thrilled to hear that you are enjoying our site and recipes! We hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback!
-Ameera and Robin 🙂
This was amazing. And so easy!!! It’s going into the regular rotation of meals!
Hi there Chris 🙂
Yaaayyy! We are so excited that you enjoyed this recipe and that you’ll be adding it to your regular rotation! Thank you so much for your awesome feedback!
-Ameera and Robin 🙂
I don’t see where to rate this recipe, but it gets *****!! So easy and delicious! Thank you.
Hi there Naomi 🙂
Yaaayyy!! We are so thrilled that you enjoyed this recipe and would rate it 5 stars! Thank you so much for your awesome feedback and taking the time to write.
-Ameera and Robin 🙂