5 Minute Homemade Marinara Sauce, Large Family Style

1/3 olive oil
9 cloves garlic crushed
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
16-oz. can tomato paste (You can leave this out.)
104-ounce can Don Pepino Ground Tomatoes
2 14.5 oz. cans diced tomatoes
Salt and pepper, tt
1 Tablespoon Italian dried seasoning
1/4 cup dried parsley flakes, optional

Add the olive oil to a medium sized saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and crushed pepper. When the pepper snaps and the garlic sizzles, add the tomato paste, cook for a minute, then stir in the crushed tomatoes. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. Cook for five minutes and stir in parsley.

To this basic Marinara sauce you can add cooked ground beef, onions, sweet peppers, mushrooms or whatever you like to make a sauce for spaghetti