{"id":288,"date":"2011-02-20T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/post\/Marinara-Red-Sauce-(great-for-freezing!).aspx"},"modified":"2011-02-20T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:08:00","slug":"marinara-red-sauce-great-for-freezing-deals-to-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Marinara Red Sauce (great for freezing!) &#8211; Deals to Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KIbizUL7_oI\/SLOJQ93IcXI\/AAAAAAAAAag\/4ImApM_4bXk\/s1600-h\/august+08+092.JPG\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">Makes 18 qts. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>(can 1\/2 recipe for a smaller batch)<br \/><\/strong>4 lb. ground Italian sausage (spicy is optional)<br \/>1 8 oz. pkg. mushrooms, sliced<br \/>3 large fresh garlic cloves<br \/>1\/3 c. salt (or more depending on taste)<br \/>1 T. pepper<br \/>Red pepper flakes (optional&mdash;to taste)<br \/>1 1\/2 lb. mini carrots finely blended\/diced <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1 bunch celery finely blended\/diced<br \/>3 medium white onions\/diced <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Other vegetables-<strong>optional<\/strong> (zucchini, peppers, etc.)<br \/>1 tbsp. olive oil<br \/>5 T. basil (Add at the end of the cooking process to retain it&#8217;s flavor)<br \/>2 T. sugar<br \/>30 cans of stewed tomatoes (15oz.), with juices (whole) or frozen\/fresh tomatoes from your garden-if they are fresh, add a little more sugar and salt to balance the acidic flavor. If you use only fresh tomatoes you will need anywhere from 40-50 tomatoes (depending on their size).<br \/>4 cans tomato paste for thickening<\/p>\n<p>Use food processor to dice carrots, onions and celery (and any other vegetables) into small chunks. Saut&eacute; all above ingredients (carrots, onions, celery, sausage, mushrooms &amp; spices) in large saucepan with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add tomatoes including juice from can. For a smooth red sauce, puree all tomatoes and ingredients together in blender (or use blender\/wand&#8211; they work great!). Or, for meatier sauce, puree tomatoes only, and leave other ingredients in chunks. Allow sauce to simmer 2-5 hours on low with out the lid, sauce should reduce about one third. Add basil right before serving. Taste to make sure sauce does not need any more salt, sugar or seasoning. Simmer on stove or in roaster pan until thick. Let sauce cool and then freeze sauce in Tupperware&rsquo;s or freezer bags for later meals. <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KIbizUL7_oI\/SOGvuBFfyiI\/AAAAAAAAAcM\/9Z8KTYUlFGQ\/s1600-h\/IMGP9812.JPG\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251671845591042594\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 234px; float: left; height: 161px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KIbizUL7_oI\/SOGvuBFfyiI\/AAAAAAAAAcM\/9Z8KTYUlFGQ\/s400\/IMGP9812.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"244\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">**One of my favorite tricks&#8230;if you have extra tomatoes in your garden and don&#8217;t want to can them, FREEZE them! Rinse them off, cut out the core and place in freezer bags (don&#8217;t remove skin). Keep in your freezer until you are ready to use in later recipes, for homemade red sauce, chili, etc. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makes 18 qts. (can 1\/2 recipe for a smaller batch)4 lb. ground Italian sausage (spicy is optional)1 8 oz. pkg. mushrooms, sliced3 large fresh garlic cloves1\/3 c. salt (or more depending on taste)1 T. pepperRed pepper flakes (optional&mdash;to taste)1 1\/2 lb. mini carrots finely blended\/diced 1 bunch celery finely blended\/diced3 medium white onions\/diced Other vegetables-optional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpine9recipes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}