Garden Vegetable Marinara Sauce
This marinara sauce is packed with fresh vegetables from the garden. It has a delicious flavor and you can make a large batch to freeze and enjoy all year long.
Ingredients
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 green bell pepper roughly chopped
- 1-2 zucchini roughly chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 gallon bags frozen tomatoes cored before freezing
- 1 T fresh basic
- 1 T fresh oregano
- 1 T fresh thyme
- 1 T fresh sage
- sale and pepper, to taste
- 1 c red lentils
Instructions
- Add olive oil to a large stockpot and sauté the chopped onion for a few minutes until it begins to soften and brown slightly.
- Add peppers, zucchini, garlic, and tomatoes. Since the sauce will be blended, it can be roughly chopped
- Add herbs, salt, and pepper to taste
- Stir in rinsed red lentils, they will cook down with the sauce and absorb some liquid
- Bring pot to a gentle boil
- Reduce heat and allow to simmer for an hour, stirring occasionally
- Allow the sauce to cool completely before transferring to freezer containers
- Portion the sauce into freezer safe bags or wide mouth glass jars. Leave 2 inches of head space in jars
- Thaw the sauce when you're ready to use and enjoy