Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara, a simple and homemade marinara sauce you're sure to love.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Taste: This homemade marinara with basil, garlic and oregano tastes perfect, with juicy fresh sweet tomato's, garlic, onions, olive oil and additional ingredients creating a sweet and savory marinara to enjoy.
- Ways to Enjoy: This Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara can be enjoyed many ways, as a warm tomato oregano sauce that's great with pasta or serve as a dipping sauce for garlic bread, vegan baked cheese sticks or many other options.
- Make-Ahead: This tomato sauce with basil is definitely the perfect homemade marinara to make ahead of time for a quick and easy homemade marinara that you can add to your lunch, dinner or snack just put it in a sealed container in the fridge for 2-3 days, re-heat in the microwave or on the stove top again.
- Super Simple to Make: This easy homemade marinara with basil and oregano is vegan and comes together quickly, with a handful of ingredients, you'll get this perfect delicious marinara taking only about 45 minutes to create.
- Clean up: Easy clean up, only a few kitchen items to wash and you can sit back, relax and enjoy your vegan homemade marinara.
When I was younger I really just liked my pasta with butter, plain and simple, but now that I'm older I need more flavor than that, that's quite boring now days. This homemade marina is where it's at!
Enjoy this homemade tomato basil marinara on some pasta, fresh Zucchini Noodles or some Spaghetti Squash.
Ingredients
Take a look at the recipe card below for quantities and a full list to make this Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara.
- Tomatoes: I used fresh tomatoes because it tastes best but if you only have canned crushed tomatoes those will work, you will need about 28 ounces.
- Tomato Paste: Helps to add depth of flavor to this tomato basil oregano marinara.
- Onion and Garlic: Extra flavor.
- Olive Oil: Used to sauté the onion and garlic.
- Basil and Oregano: I like this flavor combo but feel free to use Italian seasoning in place of these if that's all you have on hand.
Now, if you don't have your own garden I will urge you to go to a farmer's market or something to get your tomatoes because if you buy 10 organic tomatoes from your grocery store, you'll probably be coming back leaving a comment like are you crazy! That was expensive! I pulled about 7 of these 10 from my garden so it was more reasonable, so definitely check out your farmers market if you don't have a garden!
Variations
- Additional add in's: If you like mushrooms or spinach you can easily add it to this best Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara recipe, if you'd like it spicier or hotter you can also add red peppers, chili flakes, garlic or onions if you'd like.
- So many options: This homemade marinara with basil and oregano can be used in so many places, with pasta, as a pizza sauce, on top your vegan burger, dip for garlic bread, on top of your baked potato, vegan baked cheese stick or anything else you'd like to add to this great tasting marinara.
How to make Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara
Step 1: First start by chopping your onion and mincing the garlic and adding it to a large pan on medium heat with your olive oil and let simmer on medium heat (about 5-10 min) while you prep the rest of your other ingredients.
Step 2: Chop your tomatoes into large chunks (squeeze the seeds out if desired, I did about half with and half without seeds) and add them into a food processor or blender (do 2 batches if necessary) and pulse them... if you like chunky sauce pulse until broken up, if you don't like chunky then pulse more until completely broken up.
Step 3: After the onion and garlic have simmered about 5-10 minutes add your processed tomatoes, tomato paste, seasonings, salt, pepper and sugar. Let cook for about 20-30 minutes on medium heat - stirring often.
Step 4: Once done let it sit to cool down it will be very hot. Enjoy on pasta or with garlic bread as a dipping sauce.
Expert Tips
- Customization: This quick and easy Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara can be used for an added in the meal sauce, a dipping sauce or a topping on lots of eats, if what your eating needs a little moisture, additional flavor or more taste this marinara might be the answer and it's vegan.
- Serve for lunch, dinner or snack: This marinara is perfect for a quick and easy add into or on top of many food items, you might like to dip our roasted curry cauliflower, or you might like to top our Vegan Black Bean Burgers, it's amazing with my Zucchini Noodles or Spaghetti Squash there's many places to use this marinara.
- Meal Prep: You can cook this easy marinara sauce with basil garlic and oregano recipe the day before you need it and put in an air tight sealed container in the fridge. Than grab it when needed this cuts down on your cooking time in the kitchen.
- Storing: Store in the fridge up to 3 data in a sealed container.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, marinara is ok for spaghetti or any other pasta you make.
It can be both ways but generally homemade marinara is left a little chunky for the texture so you'll taste the juicy tomatoes.
They are similar yet not the same, pizza sauce is generally a thicker consistency than marinara, marinara sauce lots of times is used as a dip or a topping but many like the to add it as there pizza sauce because they like the consistency and taste of there homemade marinara sauce with there pizza.
It's not the same tomato sauce is generally thicker and simmered slowly, it sits on top of the pasta dishes while marinara generally is a tomato based sauce that's light with usually larger pieces of tomatoes and is used as a pasta sauce, pizza sauce and dipping sauce.
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Tomato Basil Oregano Marinara
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion (chopped - whichever color you like best)
- 2 garlic cloves (mined)
- 10 large tomatoes (roughly chopped then pulsed in the food processor or blender into a chunky or smooth consistency - can also use 28 ounces of canned crushed tomatoes)
- 6 oz. tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- sea salt (to taste, I used about ½ teaspoon)
- pepper (to taste, I used about ½ teaspoon)
- 2 teaspoons sugar (optional)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
Instructions
- First start by chopping your onion and mincing the garlic and adding it to a large pan on medium heat with your olive oil and let simmer on medium heat (about 5-10 min) while you prep the rest of your other ingredients.
- Chop your tomatoes into large chunks (squeeze the seeds out if desired, I did about half with and half without seeds) and add them into a food processor or blender (do 2 batches if necessary) and pulse them... if you like chunky sauce pulse until broken up, if you don't like chunky then pulse more until completely broken up.
- After the onion and garlic have simmered about 5-10 minutes add your processed tomatoes, tomato paste, seasonings, salt, pepper and sugar. Let cook for about 20-30 minutes on medium heat - stirring often.
- Once done let it sit to cool down it will be very hot. Enjoy on pasta or with garlic bread as a dipping sauce.
mira
Love homemade marinara! This looks amazing!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice
This looks fantastic, Michele! I've never thought to make my own sauce before. Love this!
Harriet Emily
Mmmm I love marinara sauce! It's so fun to make at home too - sometimes I even throw in some smoked paprika to it. This looks delicious! Thank you for sharing 🙂
tworaspberries
yummm smoked paprika sounds amazing! i'll have to try that next time 😉 thanks Harriet!
Katalina@ Peas and Peonies
This sis the perfect marinara sauce, so flavorful!
tworaspberries
thanks girl! it was so de-lish tasted like pizza! 😉
Linda @ Veganosity
I've been making my own sauce forever. I think my family would pass out if I opened up a jar of marinara. This is a great recipe Michele. I've never put lime juice in my sauce, I use red wine to get that acidic taste. 🙂
tworaspberries
thanks Linda! 😉 I'll have to try the red wine next time for sure 😉
Kennedy Cole| KCole's Creative Corner
This looks delicious! Anything with herbs has to be divine 😉 I don't usually add onion or lime juice to mine, but they sound like they would be wonderful in here! I don't always make my own sauce, but next time I do, I will definitely try this one 🙂 Thanks for sharing! 😀
Sharon @ What The Fork Food Blog
Yum, I LOVE oregano and basil. So delicious!
Robyn B
I can't wait to try this! I have LOADS of fresh garden tomatoes and I've been searching for recipes to try, this is going ON the list! Thanks so much for sharing!
tworaspberries
yay! your going to love it! 😉
Debbie
I made this recipe this past weekend and served it with homemade fried zucchini sticks and chicken parmesan. Also, I added a heaping tablespoon of crushed Calabrian chili peppers paste. My family raved about how good the marinara was. I will definitely make this again.
Michele Elizabeth
Yay! I am SO happy you made it and enjoyed it! Thank you so much for the comment, and I will have to try it with chili pepper paste next time too that sounds amazing!