Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Spaghetti for dinner and no jar of spaghetti sauce?  With some canned tomatoes and a couple hours you can make a great homemade spaghetti sauce.  I found this recipe and used some canned roma tomatoes I had and a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes, these were 14-15 oz. cans. I blended these as I like a smoother sauce.  I also added in to the sauce some parmesan rind I had saved.  Something I saw on TV.  I did not have the fennel so that was left out. It was summer and I had fresh basil and parsley, a great addition if you have it.  It can be made in large batches and frozen or canned.

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Ingredients:

2 Tbls. olive oil
1 large white onion, minced
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
1 15 oz. can tomato sauce
1 6 oz. can tomato paste
1 Tbls. white sugar
1 Tbls. fennel seeds
1 Tbls. ground oregano
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

Instructions:

Heat a large pot on the stove over medium high heat.  Add in olive oil and saute onion in the olive oil for about 5 minutes, until softened.  Add in the 5 cloves of garlic and saute another 30-60 seconds.

Pour in chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, sugar, fennel, oregano, salt, pepper, basil, and parsley.  Bring to simmer.

Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 1-4 hours.  Can use an immersion blender to puree the mixture until the desired consistency is achieved, leaving it slightly chunky, or making it completely smooth.