Make a Classic Marinara Sauce | Chef School

Many great Italian recipes start right here, with a flavourful and refined tomato sauce. Chef Mark McEwan shares his simple go-to recipe for a San Marzano tomato sauce that can be used in so many Italian dishes from a simple weeknight pasta to his master recipe for Spaghetti and Meatballs with Veal and Ricotta.

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[prodbysoprano]

I just made it and it tastes delicious.

[lawrenceweinzimer]

Thank you for the quick synopsis. Nobody needs to criticize whatsoever 🙄: Just make your own variation to suit yourself !...I'm sold, I've subscribed here.

[Sara__]

Bravissimo 👏🏻
Ottima anche nella pizza marinara senza mozzarella.
Un saluto dalla Toscana 😊🇮🇹

[mughalshab]

My recipe of tomato sauce is like oil added in a pan onion chop added make onion brown added chop garlic 1 to 2 minutes cook then add tomato paste cook the tomato paste and added boiled tomatoes again cook and add chicken powder, white paper, origano and crush chilli as well now got the tomato sauce

[MrCeora]

FYI, a little bit of history.
"In the late 1700s, a large percentage of Europeans feared the tomato. A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating them, but the truth of the matter was that wealthy Europeans used pewter plates, which were high in lead content".

[mollybuttons]

Awesome chef. Lydia's was almost identical. Will be making this soon.!

[mynameis......]

Oil, good amount of Onion, few cut garlic, ( San marzano tamato has the right amount of sugar. Cut it ruffly.)tamato cut, few full basil leaves, salt pepper, remove the full basil, then add some cur basil, some more olive oil.

[jerrywilliams]

Yes Sir ....that's true marinara sauce!! bodda big...

[lhwrsrm]

I have to say, one of my take-aways from seeing Italian pasta dishes is that they are meant to have good ingredients that do the talking; that is to say, you can't make a nice authentic spaghetti marinara without nice tomatoes. You can't really make a good carbonara without good pancetta(or at least a high quality bacon) & nice cheese.

In North America we throw everything we can imagine at a pasta sauce, but it still doesn't taste as good as classic French or Italian recipes that only use few, but quality, ingredients.

[johnsheetz]

I usually just put a couple smallleaves of basil and leave it in. It is one herb that has power

[deniseg]

Huge points! You didn't use sugar, I hate that.

[janiboma]

Chef said cook for 30 minutes in the video, in the recipe he said cook 60 minutes. I think 30 minutes will be good enough.

[chadgrov]

Don’t have an immersion blender but have a food processor guess I’ll just blend it before I add it to the mix.

[kaywatson]

I don't have a immersion blender. I would use a potato masher and crush to blend by hand.

[salvatorecambedda]

I live in Italy if you come to Italy they show you how to make sauce and meat sauce

[dtrini]

Can you make a video using fresh tomatoes?

[vilkoskorlich]

When you look at an Italian-American restaurant menu, a large portion of the dishes will most likely be in a red sauce;
This marinara sauce originates from Naples and comes from the Italian word, marinaro, meaning sailor.
“There was a simple ONE of garlic, oil, and tomatoes called marinara, supposedly because it was made quickly, as soon as the mariners’ wives spotted their husbands returning fishing boats in the distance.”
“Too much garlic! Garlic everywhere, ”Garlic, you see, is not quite the staple of Italian cuisine Americans think it is.
Depending on who you speak to, onions are a controversial ingredient too – and don’t even think of ever combining the two in a single dish.
The idea of ingredient misuse provoking tears may appear a little drastic

[Dana-wqtp]

What about some sugar to cut the acid in the tomatoes?

[damrgee]

What if I can find San marzano tomatoes

[ivaniris]

Then what is the difference between the Salsa and the Marinara .