The Quick Homemade Pasta Sauce with Sausage will quickly become a family favorite and can be on the table in under 30 minutes! Gluten Free and Whole30!
We eat at least one meal a week with pasta sauce. It’s not always with actual pasta, sometimes it’s with spiralized veggies, sometimes it’s sausage and peppers and sometimes it’s a one-pan skillet or casserole. Either way, pasta sauce is a regular thing around here.
And, while I do use a variety of high-quality jarred pasta sauces from time to time, there is nothing like homemade.
This is my go-to easy homemade pasta sauce and it’s loaded with flavor and protein!
It’s quick, easy, and endlessly versatile.
I highly suggest making a double or even triple batch and stocking a bunch in your freezer.
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The Quick Homemade Pasta Sauce with Sausage will quickly become a family favorite and can be on the table in under 30 minutes! Gluten Free and Whole30!
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 large yellow onion chopped
- 1/2 pound mild Italian Sausage crumbled
- 10 medium cloves garlic crushed
- 2 26.46 ounce containers Organic Crushed Tomatoes
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 20 turns freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 small dried bay leaves
- fresh basil to serve
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Heat a dutch oven or other large soup pot over medium heat. Once hot, add olive oil. When oil is warm (30 to 45 seconds), add diced onion and crushed garlic.
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Saute 6 to 8 minutes, stirring frequently, until onion begins to look translucent.
Add crumbled sausage and use a spatula to continue breaking apart as it cooks, 3 to 4 minutes, or until most of pink is gone.
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Add spices (salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, crushed fennel seeds, Italian seasoning and bay leaves). Stir to toast, about 30 seconds.
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Add crushed tomatoes. Bring to a gentle boil and immediatley lower heat to a simmer. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for at least 20 minutes (longer is OK).
Taste, adjust seasoning if necessary and serve topped with fresh basil. Enjoy!
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DISCLOSURE: This post is part of a series of posts sponsored by Pacific Foods. Pacific Foods has compensated me for my time to develop this recipe as their 2017 Brand Ambassador for Broths. Thank you for supporting the brands that make EverydayMaven possible. All opinions are my own.
I love how quick it is to make! What an awesome recipe, can’t wait to try it!
Hi Carolyn! I hope you LOVE it!
I love how easy this is! Nothing is like homemade.
Homemade sauce is the best!
Looks best with the macaroni noodles! Love it!!
Nothing like old school macaroni!
Quick pasta dishes are the best! Thanks for sharing!
They really are!
I love homemade pasta sauce! I need to try their crushed tomatoes- i bet they are awesome!
They are seriously the best packaged tomatoes I’ve ever used!
YUM! Such a delicious, easy pasta sauce. I love the addition of fennel seeds—perfect with the sausage.
The fennel adds so much!
10 cloves garlic???? That’s my kind of sauce. The more the merrier as far as I’m concerned.
I couldn’t agree more!
I can not resist a good bowl of pasta. I am totally drooling over this. Yum!!
Same! Nothing better!
Quick pasta dishes like this are great for weeknight dinners
Seriously!!
I love a good fresh tomato sauce, so much better than canned. i will have to see if I can find those Pacific Foods Crushed Tomatoes!
New Seasons has the full line!