The Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce is the Perfect Weeknight Pasta Recipe
The best homemade spaghetti sauce is your answer if you love an easy sauce for pasta!
This homemade Italian spaghetti sauce is easy, quick, and kid approved! Nix the processed ingredients and added sugar you’ll find in the jarred spaghetti sauce varieties and make your own in less than 20 minutes prep!
This post is all about the best homemade spaghetti sauce with zero fuss!
HEALTHY MICRO SUPERSTARS FEATURED IN the Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
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What Will It Take To Make the Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce?
This easy homemade spaghetti sauce is delicious with or without meat! If you are going to add meat, consider ground turkey. It’s leaner than beef but still gives this sauce a hearty base!
- In your Instant Pot, pour in 1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil and turn on the “sauté” function.
- Then, add ground turkey and brown until cooked through.
- Next, add chopped garlic and onion and stir.
- Add more extra virgin olive oil and then toss in the sliced carrots and celery. Stir.
- Add San Marzano tomatoes and tomato paste.
- Add seasoning.
- Add basil.
- Add honey, this balances a bit the acidity from the tomatoes.
- Close the lid and turn off the saute function. Close the steam valve. Press “soup” and set the timer for 30 minutes.
- While the sauce is cooking, you can cook your noodles!
- When Instant Pot is finished cooking it will beep.
- Allow to vent naturally or manually. Ladle sauce over noodles and enjoy!
Gut Healthy Foods in this Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
This homemade Italian spaghetti sauce has plenty of gut healthy ingredients! With San Marzano tomatoes, carrots, celery, and onion, it is full of gut healthy micro superstars! Did I mention it’s delicious? You’ll find the recipe below, and if you want to learn more about the gut health benefits behind this delicious pasta sauce, keep reading!
The Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce the Easy Way
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 2 tbsp olive oil extra virgin
- 6 cloves garlic cloves chopped
- 1 large yellow onion diced
- 2 large carrots diced
- 4 stalks celery sliced
- 3 28 oz San Marzano tomatoes cans
- 1 tsp Italian dried spices
- 2 oz fresh basil
- 1/2 can tomato paste
- salt to taste or about 2 tsp
- Ground black pepper to taste
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes or more if you like your spaghetti sauce spicy
- 1 1/2 tsp honey raw honey is best
- 16 oz spaghetti noodles whole wheat is best
Instructions
Make the Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
- In your Instant Pot, pour in 1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil and turn on the "sauté" function.2 tbsp olive oil
- Add ground turkey and brown until cooked through, about 10 minutes.1 lb ground turkey
- Add chopped garlic and onion and stir, cooking for about 2 minutes.6 cloves garlic cloves, 1 large yellow onion
- Add 1 more tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil and then toss in the sliced carrots and celery. Stir, cooking for 2-3 more minutes.2 tbsp olive oil, 2 large carrots, 4 stalks celery
- Add San Marzano tomatoes cans and tomato paste.3 28 oz San Marzano tomatoes cans, 1/2 can tomato paste
- Add seasoning including Italian spices, salt, ground pepper, and red pepper flakes.1 tsp Italian dried spices, salt, Ground black pepper, 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- Add fresh basil.2 oz fresh basil
- Add honey.1 1/2 tsp honey
- Close the lid and turn off the saute function. Close the steam valve. Press "soup" and set the timer for 30 minutes.
- When Instant Pot is finished cooking it will beep. Allow to vent naturally or manually.
Make the Noodles
- While the sauce is cooking, you can cook your noodles according to the package directions on the stove.16 oz spaghetti noodles
Serve!
- Ladle sauce over noodles and enjoy!
Video
Nutrition
Why Every At Home Chef Should Have An Instant Pot
The Instant Pot takes this homemade Italian spaghetti sauce from a labor of love to a 20 minute weeknight meal in a the snap of your fingers, or well, actually in the pressurized cooking function!
Want to know more about what the Instant Pot can do for you? Check out my post on the all the Instant Pot benefits here! Or, take a look at other recipes on Kait’s Cupboard that use the Instant Pot here!
Gut Healthy Spaghetti Sauce Ingredients
This homemade spaghetti sauce is full of gut healthy ingredients including tomatoes, garlic, onions, carrots, celery, whole wheat pasta, and even honey! Follow the links below to read more on how these gut healthy foods support a healthy you!
1. Tomatoes are Full of Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Support a Balanced and Efficient Gut
2. Raw Honey Has Plenty of Gut Healthy Benefits
Raw honey is jam-packed with health benefits. Unfortunately, the majority of it has been pasteurized. This destroys all the spectacular nutrients and vitamins! Find more on raw honey benefits here!
You can find raw honey that is true source certified on Amazon here.
3. Cooked Carrots are Better for Your Gut Health
Gut Health Secret
Carrots are an excellent source of beta-carotene which your body converts into vitamin A. Cooked carrots have MORE GUT HEALTHY benefits than raw carrots, particularly keeping your eyes healthy over time!
For peer reviewed articles read: Ghavami et al., 2012; Livny et al., 2003; Edwards et al., 2002; and Meyers et al., 2014.
4. Eating Garlic Everyday Benefits Your Health!
Decreasing inflammation, reducing risk of chronic disease, even fighting the common cold, garlic basically does it all! Read more here!
The Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Made Easy!
Making your own Italian spaghetti sauce has never been this easy! This recipe for the best homemade spaghetti sauce takes less than 20 minutes prep and makes enough for left overs the next day! This one is also kid approved! Try it tonight and post your comments below!
