Marinara Sauce

My husband is not a pasta lover and he hates the bottled pasta sauces that we get at supermarkets, all the  more. Even I don't like it, but very rarely it works as a quick fix for us. I make my own marinara sauce whenever we want to relish our pasta. It is not very quick but it is definitely delicious. The taste of all the fresh ingredients gives it a refreshing taste. My husband too enjoys his pasta when the sauce is homemade.

The fresh tomatoes, carrots, celery and herbs, topped with bell peppers will make you feel like you have a garden on your plate. It is delicious and I would like to share it's recipe with you.

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil 
• 1 large onion chopped
• 3 cloves garlic chopped
• 2 celery stalk chopped
• 2 carrots chopped
• ¼ cup parsley chopped
• 3 large tomatoes chopped
• ¼ cup tomato sauce
• 1 cup water
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 2 tsp Italian seasoning
• 2 tbsp heavy cream

Directions:

• In a large saucepan, take olive oil. Let it heat up and then add garlic and onions. Saute it for a minute.
• Add celery, carrots and parsley. Add salt. Saute for another minute or two.
• Add tomatoes and let it get all cooked and mushy. Keep stirring in between.
• Add tomato sauce and water.
• Mix and let it cook well. 
• When the veggies are cooked, remove saucepan from heat and let it cool.
• When cool, put it in a blender and make a sauce out of it.
• Put this sauce in a saucepan and put it on stovetop.
• Add and adjust all seasonings like salt, pepper, chilli powder and italian seasoning.
• Add heavy cream and let the sauce simmer. You can add more water if you think the sauce is getting too thick. Just keep adjusting the seasonings as per your taste and simmer for sometime.
• The sauce is ready and you can pour it over your favorite pasta (cooked as per package directions) or you can cool it and put it in a jar, and refrigerate it for future use.