It takes only minutes to prepare and cook this simple pasta sauce. With any cooked pasta shape, serve hot.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over low heat; add garlic and sauté until tender, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in crushed tomatoes, basil, salt, and pepper. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
Reviews
Quick, simple & tasty
This recipe was quite delicious and I’d say If you don’t have crushed tomatoes like me, purée is a great substitute!
Tastes like sadness. Watery, bland and lacking much flavor. Doctoring a jar of anything is easier and tastier.
Made as written to start with and this needs more flavor. My recommendations are to switch out the basil to Italian seasoning so that you get oregano and all of the other flavors that go with it and double it at that. This WAS quick and easy so high props there. I added cooked ground beef in the end and it needs this or you end up with a very watery sauce. Great jumping off point but this recipe needs tweaks.
Excellent base recipe. Fast and easy to make. I’ve been experimenting with adding ground beef and ground veal, as well as onions or shallots. Very easy to adapt this to your own personal flavor preferences.
I made this sauce exactly as written. It was fast and delicious. I used it on pasta, but will be trying it on other dishes. I will definitely be making it again.
The “taste test” went okay, but as I had to use up tomatoes, just froze the pasta sauce. Will review further when I use it!
I was skeptical because this recipe has such great reviews but the ingredients list was missing something to balance the tartness of the canned tomatoes. I made it anyway because of the glowing reviews and it was so sour! Most recipes using canned tomatoes use brown sugar or balsamic vinegar to cut the tartness, which is what I had to do to salvage it (along with adding tomato paste and more spices).
Delicious, simple and quick sauce to put together! I found that it needed sweetness, so I added a few tblsp of brown sugar. That helped to improve the flavor and cut the acidity of the tomatoes, for my tastes anyway. Another time, this would be wonderful over pasta, but I’m using it in a vegetable lasagna. Thanks for this excellent recipe!
I added a small can of tomato paste, a tiny bit of sugar, and fresh basil
Fantastic recipe! My son asked for Spaghetti and meat balls. I looked in my cupboard and realized I didn’t have a jar of sauce. But I had the ingredients for this recipe! Thanks
I found this overly sweet and bland as to seasonings. I followed it exactly so I don’t know what went wrong.
Very easy and delicous. I used fresh chopped tomatoes because I didn’t have any canned. I simmered at medium heat for 25m.
I realized too late that I was out of jarred pasta sauce. I searched online for something quick and easy, and this recipe more than met that criteria! I didn’t expect it to be as delicious as it is! I added fresh bell peppers & vine ripened tomatoes, then simmered it until the peppers were cooked cooked through. The entire family, including a child who “despises” tomatoes & any type of peppers, adored it & all requested that I make it again soon! This will be my go-to recipe from now on! I will NEVER use jarred pasta sauce again!
I was skeptical but out of my regular sauce so I gave it a try. This was unexpectedly really tasty. I added a half of a chopped onion and sautéed with garlic before adding the tomatoes. It’s sweeter than long simmering sauce but still really very good.
I added onion, Italian seasonings, extra garlic ,just a touch of red wine. Did not care for it.
Wow this is really good… Simple, clean, very tasty with depth. After tasting this, I don’t feel the need to have to let sauce simmer forever for it to be awesome lol. Will definitely make again. I didn’t change anything, which is unusual for me 🙂
So yummy! Would make it again, added more basil and more pepper.
Yum! I added Italian sausage and mushrooms and it was GREAT! Even my picky sister loved it! Could use some more spices, but it worked. Amazingly short cook time for such a great sauce.
this was so fast and easy! i added some onions in with the garlic and also put in some tomato paste to help thicken it. delish!
good when you don’t have much ingredients and time I would say this is a very very basic sauce that you can build and tweak to your liking. I found it to be so so. I won’t make it again. at least I can say I’ve made my own sauce