Thanks for joining Sarah and me for Meatless Monday today. Every great home chef needs to have a fabulous homemade Marinara sauce in their arsenal. Marinara sauce is the key to so many fabulous Italian meals. Did someone say pizza? So what is so special about my Veggie Packed Marinara Sauce? It’s packed full of enough veggies to meet your daily requirements and then some.
Veggie Packed Marinara Sauce
Like any delicious Marinara Sauce, this one starts off with some San Marzano canned tomatoes. From there I add in my special mix of roasted veggies. I took this whole bowl of healthy goodness and added them all into my Veggie Packed Marinara Sauce.
I like to roast all of the veggies including some fresh tomatoes and garlic with a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Roasting the veggies really brings out their flavors and gives this Veggie Packed Marinara Sauce a huge punch of taste. After roasting, the veggies are pureed and added to sauce.
If you have some family members who do not love vegetables, pureeing them into a Marinara sauce is a fabulous way to hide them. Once they are in your sauce, you won’t even notice them at all. I admit, when my kids were younger, I had to resort to pureeing veggies and adding them into other dishes to get my kids to eat them.
Once you have all of your veggies combined in your sauce, it’s time to spice it up. I use all of the classic Italian seasonings here: basil, oregano, garlic powder, salt, pepper, red pepper and a little parsley to finish. As if you did not need another reason to love Italian food. This Veggie Packed Marinara is perfect for pasta, pizza, spaghetti squash bake and anything else that would have you reaching for a classic red sauce.
So who is ready to dip into this pot of delicious goodness? Do you make your own Marinara sauce? Ever try hiding veggies in other foods?
A classic Italian red sauce gets a makeover with the Veggie Packed Marinara sauce for Meatless Monday or any day of the week. Vegan, gluten free, dairy free
Veggie Packed Marinara Sauce
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I never thought to add roasted veggies to marinara sauce. This looks so tasty though!
It’s such an easy way to add more nutrition to the sauce. Hope you try it out
This is the advice I give to all the moms of the picky kids I see in clinic! They’re always surprised when I tell them they can hide veggies in all kinds of foods, including chocolate cake and brownies!
Yes definitely such an easy way to bump up the nutrition
I love a good marinara and its a great base for everything. This seems simple and tasty! I’ll have to give it a try.
Very easy!Hope you enjoy
That sounds fantastic! I love a good, flavorful Marinara.
Thanks so much! me too 🙂
This looks amazing. I love a good marinara. And forget hiding veggies from the kids. I need to do it for my husband! 🙂 (And I actually snuck some greens into the burritos I made last night for dinner.)
Well yes my hubs is so picky about veggies too. How did we end up with husbands like that?!
I’ll admit…I’m not a huge fan of eggplant, but this looks delicious! I’ll have to try it!
You won’t even know it’s in there!
I love putting veggies in marinara! This sounds perfect!
Thanks so much I do too!
Any sauce that starts with San Marzano sounds good to me! And YES- all caps- I hide veggies for my kids…and it’s a pain, but necessary!
It does work doesn’t it?!
I love the idea of adding all of those yummy vegetables! I can’t wait to make this sauce – thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for checking it out hope you enjoy
Oh my, I love marinara sauce! We’ve made fresh salsa from veggies we picked and it was wonderful. It takes a lot of time, but so worth it! Will have to give this a try too!
This is a pretty quick one to whip up! Hope you give it a try
I don’t understand why there is so much sugar in jarred sauce. This looks delicious! Happy Meatless Monday!
I don’t understand either! It really is not necessary at all and thank you 🙂
This is such a great idea! I’m always looking for ways to add more vegetables to my diet…(and my husband’s)!
Thanks so much hope you both enjoy it
This looks amazing! I Love a good marinara! Especially a homemade one!
thanks I much prefer to make my own as well
Sounds absolutely awesome! I don’t usually make homemade sauce unless I have my own tomatoes from the garden…duh, I don’t think of buying some from the store LOL I love all the ingredients…pureeing them is a great way to thicken the sauce, too.
Sounds delicious! I love the flavor veggies get buy roasting them. This is much healthier then the store bought ones that can be loaded w sugar.
Thanks! I agree they add so much sugar and all kinds of other junk into many sauces.
This sauce has such a rich colour and texture! Looks amazing
Thanks so much!
This looks so much better than canned sauce. I’m a picky eater myself so purée may be the way to go for me!!
Oh good hope it works out for you
Well that looks absurdly delicious. 🙂 I have been craving pasta with this pregnancy and I love this way to get more veggies into my carbo-loading. 🙂
It’s funny the things you crave while pregnant! Hope you are feeling well happy Monday
im totally into this sauce…and cant wait to give it a try.
OH thanks so much hope you enjoy it
I love the idea of adding more veggies in your sauce!
Thanks so much me too! Adds a ton of flavor
I rarely use marinara sauces but after this post, I think I’m going to give it a go!
OH good! Hope you enjoy
Love the additional veggies in here. I’ll take them anywhere I can get them!
Thanks! Me too
This looks so good! I’ll have to try making this for my next pizza!
It is the perfect sauce for pizza
That looks like a yummy way to sneak in veggies 🙂
Sneaky indeed! 🙂
I’ve never made my own marinara! 😮 Now I know I’ve been missing out. My boyfriend loves Italian food so I want to surprise him with this.
It is so easy to make your own sauce and then you can tailor the spices to your likes as well
Yum, marinara sauce is my favorite! Love that you add extra veggies.
I love marinara sauce as well so easy to make
This is so great, especially since my 3 year old is hating on some veggies lately. I love any way that I can add a few extra to his meals!
I hope you can sneak them in!
Yum! This looks so amazing, I love all the veggies here 🙂 I can’t wait to make this recipe!!
Veggie packed indeed!
I can’t wait to try this versus the jarred stuff I usually buy. I always watch for a load of sugar, but if I can – I prefer homemade!
Me too when I can and it tastes better too
Oh wow! I’d never guess that Eggplant would be in that but it sounds amazing!!!
The eggplant is hidden in there nicely!
I am drooling while looking at this sauce. I cannot believe the amount of veggies that you packed into it. It also looks delicious too. I’m sure that it tastes absolutely amazing!
Thanks! Veggie packed indeed!
Marinara sauce is a great way to pack in all kinds of hidden veggies and nutrients. If you blend it up well enough, no one ever knows. Or you can go for something a little chunkier and enjoy it that way! Yum!
yes completely up to you!
Oh my goodness, I love this idea!! I really love hiding veggies in my dishes. I don’t even realize I’m eating veggies!
Yes exactly!