My Marinara Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    5 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      55 min

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

To make a good marinara sauce, you have to start with good tomatoes. Finding a good tomato product can involve a bit of trial and error. Look for canned tomatoes with no citric acid or calcium chloride added. When I make a sauce at home, I usually use whole plum tomatoes and crush them by hand. If you like the tomatoes more finely chopped, you can pulse them in a blender for a few seconds.