This post is sponsored in part by Tuttorosso. All opinions are my own. 

Perfect Marinara Sauce

Ingredients

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1 tablespoon Tuttorosso® Tomato Paste 
1 (35 ounce) can Tuttorosso® Peeled Plum Italian Style Tomatoes with natural basil flavor, crushed with hands
1/4 teaspoon sugar 
5 whole basil leaves 
Salt and black pepper to taste 

Instructions

• Heat oil in skillet.  Add garlic and cook over medium heat until golden brown, about 5 minutes.  Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring for 1 minute.
• Add the peeled plum tomatoes with natural basil flavor, sugar and basil.  Stir to combine and then add salt and black pepper and bring to a boil.
• Simmer sauce over low heat, stirring occasionally until thickened and reduced, about 30 minutes.  Taste and season again with salt and black pepper if needed.  Discard basil and garlic cloves.
• Serve over your favorite pasta.  Top with fresh torn basil leaves and grated fresh Parmesan cheese.

Tuttorosso Tomatoes

Tuttorosso Tomatoes recently launched a new website  with recipes, an inspirational ideas blog and even stories from home cooks. As part of that, they are introducing a line-up of Sunday Sauce recipes in a series called  Celebrate the Sauce. I don’t know about you but, at our house, we definitely #CelebrateTheSauce often! 

I’ve got plenty of Italian in my blood – it takes over when I’m mad (kidding – maybe) and when I’m in the kitchen. I don’t want to brag but I can make a lasagna like no other! Haha! I usually cook up a big sauce like the perfect marinara above or, more often a nice meat sauce on Sundays. I prepare the sauce, put it in my crockpot and simmer all day. Because I’m restricting carbs (96 lbs lost in 8 months and counting!) I prefer making my sauce from scratch so I know exactly what goes in it! I serve my sauce on zoodles (zucchini noodles) or spaghetti squash and cook up regular pasta for everyone else. The next night we usually mix the sauce with macaroni or I make lasagna (for a low carb lasagna I have tried cooked cabbage leaves in the past, next time I think I’ll do thinly sliced zucchini). 

 The Tuttorosso brand is owned by Red Gold, which is third generation family-owned and family-run. I love the #SundaySauce #TutturossoRecipes ideas! 

Tuttorosso Tomatoes Giveaways

My lovely friends at Tuttorosso want my readers to #CelebrateTheSauce too! In fact, they are giving one lucky reader a Tuttorosso kit containing:

• One 28-oz can crushed tomatoes with basil
• One 28-oz. can peeled plum Italian style tomatoes
• One 28-oz can of sauce
• One 6-oz can of tomato paste
• One Tuttorosso apron
• One Tuttorosso wooden spoon
• Plenty of Tuttorosso recipes

The giveaway is open today through December 3rd and a winner will be notified on December 4th! Good luck!! 

 More Chances to Win!  

Tuttorosso also will be hosting a three-week promotion starting November 19, during which they will be giving away 1,000 aprons per week, a daily drawing of 1 heirloom wooden spoon and a grand prize of a Martha Stewart Cookware set. Just go tohttp://www.facebook.com/tuttorossotomato to enter.