vegetarian spaghetti sauce

My family's secret homemade spaghetti sauce is easy to make using a few staple ingredients you may already have on hand! Perfectly thick and packed with flavor, you'll be ditching that store bought pasta sauce! 

Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe 

extra virgin olive oil

yellow onion, grated

garlic cloves, finely minced

oz canned crushed tomatoes

water (pasta cooking water, preferred)

Kosher salt and black pepper

oregano

tsp sweet Spanish paprika

red pepper flakes, optional

basil, packed, torn

parsley,

In a large pan heat the extra virgin olive oil over medium heat until just shimmering. Add the onions, garlic, and finely grated carrots. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly until softened.

Add the crushed tomatoes and about 1/2 cup water. Add a generous pinch of salt and pepper. Stir in oregano, paprika, crushed pepper flakes, if using. Finally, stir in the fresh basil and parsley.

Bring the sauce to a boil, then turn heat to low. Cover and let simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes. Check partway through, and if you feel the sauce is too thick, you can add a bit more water (preferably some of your pasta cooking water). When sauce is ready, throw in more fresh basil, if you like.

 If serving for dinner, add cooked pasta of your choice to the sauce. Mix to combine and let the pasta cook in the sauce over low heat for about 5 minutes.

Really enjoyed the simple sauce especially since I had everything at home. 
I will try making it with meat next time to change it up. Thank you for another amazing recipe.

This is a pre-production comment: I'm choosing to make this recipe rather than some other because other spaghetti sauce recipes I looked at (5) called for sugar, which is annoyingly ubiquitous in American cuisine. Using carrots instead just sounds so preferable - still sweet and far more healthy and nutritious. Thanks for that!  BTW, one can always adjust the amount of garlic/herbs in a recipe to taste, but 3 cloves is definitely NOT too much for me:)

Loved it! I don’t like cooked carrots, surprisingly I couldn’t taste it, it was so good! Thank you!

Wow!  This came out so tasty and it was super simple to make.  Thank you!!

Truly appreciate for making one of my favorite sauce. Everything is so nicely described that really helped me to make this at home. Thanks for the inspiration.

Amazing amazing amazing sauce! Thank you for sharing!

Honestly the best spaghetti sauce i came across so far. Thanks so much!! Its thick but not too thick, simple ingredients and tasty. Definitely gonna be using for my pasta always

Could I substitute the 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 red wine? Also I only have baby carrots. How many baby carrots is equivalent to 2 normal carrots you think? I love that your recipe uses carrots for sweetness AND thickening.

This recipe was easy to make. I also, added mushrooms in my bullet then added them to the sauce. 
I cant wait to serve it up tonight.

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