The Sopranos Marinara Sauce Recipes

MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large (12-inch) skillet. Add the onion and saute over medium heat until translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Add the wine and cook on high heat, scraping up all the brown bits in the pan, until almost all the liquid evaporates, about 3 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, parsley, salt, and pepper. Cover, and simmer on the lowest heat for 15 minutes.

MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Add a tablespoon or so of olive oil into a hot pan over medium-high heat and throw in the garlic and chopped onions and give them a stir.
• Now add the wine (or chicken broth), whisking to deglaze the bottom of the skillet. Cook until the liquid reduces by half.
• Add the crushed tomatoes and stir to combine. Add salt and pepper to taste and a pinch of sugar. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Toward the end of the cooking process, chop up your fresh parsley and basil and add it to the sauce to taste, stirring to combine.

WORLD'S BEST MARINARA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, red bell pepper, and parsley; cook and stir until mushrooms are slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add oregano, sugar, basil, rosemary, sage, red pepper flakes, salt, and black pepper; stir to combine, 2 minutes.
• Stir tomato sauce into seasoned onion-mushroom mixture; cook over low heat until flavors have combined, 30 minutes.
• Transfer half the sauce to a blender; blend until smooth. Return to saucepan with the remaining sauce; stir to combine.

RAO'S MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Remove tomatoes from can and place in a large bowl, reserving juices. Crush tomatoes using your hands; remove and discard the hard core from stem end, and any skin and tough membrance, set aside.
• Place oil in a large, nonreactive saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion, and cook until soft and just beginning to brown, about 3 minutes. Stir in garlic, and cook until softened, about 30 seconds. Stir in tomatoes and reserved juices, season with sale, increase heat and bring to a boil. Immediately reduce heat to low and simmer until slightly thickened, about 1 hour.
• Stir in basil, if using, oregano, and season with pepper, continue cooking 1 minute more. Remove from heat and serve.

SOPRANO'S SUNDAY GRAVY (SPAGHETTI SAUCE)

Steps:

• To make the sauce, heat the oil in a large heavy pot over medium heat.
• Pat the pork dry and put the pieces in the pot.
• Cook turning occasionally, for about 15 minutes or until nicely browned on all sides.
• Transfer pork to a plate.
• Brown the veal in the same way and add it to the plate.
• Place the sausages in the pot and brown on all sides.
• Set the sausages aside with the pork.
• Drain off most of the fat from the pot.
• Add the garlic and cook for about 2 minutes or until golden.
• Remove and discard the garlic.
• Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute.
• With a food mill (I use a Braun hand blender) puree the tomatoes, with their juice into the pot.
• Or for a chunkier sauce, just chop up the tomatoes and add them.
• Add the water; and salt and pepper to taste.
• Add the pork, veal, sausages, and basil and bring the sauce to a simmer.
• Partially cover the pot and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours.
• If the sauce becomes too thick, add a little more water.
• Meanwhile, make the meatballs: Combine all the ingredients except the oil in a large bowl.
• Mix together thoroughly.
• Rinse your hands with cool water and lightly shape the mixture into 2 inch balls.
• Heat the oil in a large heavy skillet.
• Add the meatballs and brown them well on all sides.
• They will finish cooking in the sauce.
• Transfer the meatballs to a plate.
• After the sauce has cooked for its two hours, add the meatballs and cook for 30 minutes or until the sauce is thick and the meats are very tender.
• To serve, remove the meats from the sauce and set aside.
• Toss the cooked pasta with the sauce.
• Sprinkle with cheese.
• Serve the meats as a second course, or reserve them for another day.

THE SOPRANOS' MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook the garlic in the olive oil over medium heat, pressing it occasionally with the back of a spoon, until golden (about 4 minutes).
• Add the tomatoes and salt to taste.
• Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until the sauce is thick (15-20 minutes, depending on the tomatoes).
• Stir in the basil leaves.
• Serve over hot cooked spaghetti or other pasta.
• Makes about 6 cups.

TONY N' TINA'S MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Saute onions and olive oil until onions are translucent (about 3 minutes). Add in diced tomatoes, then add tomato puree. Add the remaining ingredients and 2 cups water. Let simmer for about 6 hours.

PAUL SORVINO'S MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in frying pan. While oil heats up, chop garlic and add to oil. Fry garlic until golden brown (color of toast). Set aside. Drain peeled Italian tomatoes and mash into a thick puree. Pour into the frying pan and add bay leaves, fresh basil, sea salt and fresh pepper. Cook for 25 to 30 minutes on medium flame. In a large pot boil water and add pasta. Cook for 12 minutes. Drain pasta and return it to the pot. Add 1 scoop of sauce and mix. Serve pasta in separate bowls and add marinara sauce to each serving.

NANCY'S MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot over a medium-high flame. Add the onions and garlic and saute until the onions are translucent, about 10 minutes. Add the carrots and celery, season with salt and pepper and saute until all the vegetables are soft, about 10 minutes. Add the tomatoes and oregano and simmer uncovered over low heat until the sauce has thickened, about 1 hour. Season to taste with more salt and pepper.

MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large non-stick skillet over low heat and saute garlic for about 2 minutes; be careful not to burn. Just as the garlic begins to turn brown, remove pan from heat. Allow pan to cool, and add tomatoes, wine, water, salt and sugar. Cook over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in basil.

MILLER'S MARINARA

Steps:

• Heat the canola oil in a skillet over medium heat, and saute the onion until tender.
• In a slow cooker, mix the onion and remaining oil, crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato puree, garlic powder, oregano, basil, salt, sugar, and pepper.
• Cover slow cooker, and cook sauce 8 hours on Low.

MARINARA SAUCE (WW 2 POINTSPLUS)

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in large skillet and cook the garlic, pressing it occasionally with the back of a spoon, until golden, about 4 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes and salt to taste. Simmer, stirring often, until the sauce thickens, about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the tomatoes. Stir in the basil leaves.
• Serve over hot cooked spaghetti or other favorite pasta.

BIRDMAN'S MARINARA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat; saute onion and garlic until onion becomes translucent, about 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell pepper, celery, carrots, zucchini, tomato paste, cooking wine, soy sauce, and black pepper; simmer for 2 hours.
• Stir basil, oregano, sage, and bay leaves into sauce and simmer until flavors blend, 1 to 2 hours. Remove bay leaves.