Easy Homemade Pasta Sauce

Homemade Pasta Sauce for spaghetti, lasagna, and other favorite pasta dishes. Simple ingredients and delicious flavor, good with meat or go meatless!

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Homemade Pasta Sauce is so simple and easy to make. We started making this particular sauce over the last year or so. Occasionally, we’ll have it with real pasta; other times we’ll have it with squash or zucchini pasta.

While I love ground beef, Italian sausage, or meatballs in my sauce, this sauce is also really good as a meatless sauce. So if you prefer a hearty sauce without meat, this is the sauce for you.

The recipe makes enough for a large pan of lasagna or a couple meals of spaghetti, just to give you an idea of how many servings it makes. You can freeze any leftover sauce, as well, making for a quick weeknight meal when you’re not sure what to make for dinner.

Tips for how to make Easy Homemade Pasta Sauce

• Mince 3 to 5 garlic cloves.
• Then mince 1/2 of a large onion.
• Add crushed tomatoes, minced garlic, and minced onion to a deeper skillet. We use our favorite 10 1/4-inch iron skillet.
• Bring sauce to a simmer.
• Add Italian Seasoning, basil, salt, pepper, and brown sugar to the mixture. Stir well.
• Cover and allow to simmer for 10-20 minutes.
• Taste test along the way. This is half the fun of making homemade spaghetti sauce.
• At this point, you can add cooked meat if you want. Or you can keep it meatless.
• Add to your favorite pasta. We love this sauce with spaghetti and lasagna.

Looking for more recipes to make with this pasta sauce?

• Baked Italian Cauliflower Meatballs
• Spaghetti Squash Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Creamy Tortellini Alfredo – Switch up the sauce and add a red sauce instead. Or add part red/part cream for a creamy red sauce.
• Grands Mini Supreme Pizzas – Use this sauce as a delicious pizza sauce.
• Pizza Pot Pie – Use as the main sauce for this recipe.
• Shepherd’s Pie
• Spaghetti Tacos – Make this sauce for spaghetti.

Tools you may need to make your own pasta sauce

Iron Skillet – to make this one skillet sauce.
Heat Resistant Spatula – Works well for stirring and scraping the sides of the pan.
Crushed Tomatoes – You’ll need 2 28-ounce cans.
Spices – You’ll need Italian Seasoning and basil.
Glass Lid – for iron skillet.

Want to see how to make pasta sauce (and spaghetti with spaghetti squash)? Watch our video!

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