Ingredients Pasta + Noodles Pasta Sauce Marinara sauce Best-Ever Marinara 5.0 (5,566) Add your rating & review This delicious, all-purpose marinara sauce is useful in a variety of recipes. F&W editors love it on pizza, with pasta, and as a dipping sauce. By Grace Parisi Updated on August 16, 2022 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Aaron Kirk Active Time: 10 mins Total Time: 40 mins Yield: 3 cups Ingredients 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 3 garlic cloves, peeled and halved 1 tablespoon tomato paste 35 ounces canned whole peeled Italian tomatoes Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Pinch of sugar 2 basil sprigs Directions In a large saucepan, heat the extra-virgin olive oil. Add the garlic cloves and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and crush them with the back of a spoon; season with salt and pepper. Stir in the sugar and basil sprigs and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is thickened and reduced to 3 cups, about 30 minutes. Discard the basil sprigs and garlic. Rate it Print