Before I owned an Instant Pot I made sauce exactly one time. It was bland and not at all exciting. So for the next however many years I ate bottled sauce from the supermarket. I don’t really care for bottled sauce though as it’s too salty and just not pleasing to my palate.

Once I got the Instant Pot I came across some recipes for sauce and tried them but they didn’t quite cut it either. I don’t care for it with red wine as an ingredient and many of them had red wine. The others were bland or too salty or not “Italian” enough tasing for me, so I set about creating my own sauce recipe.

I make this recipe once a week or once every other week and use it in all of my other recipes that call for sauce like the Lasagna. It’s really delicious and easily customizable to your particular tastes. From the meat you choose, if any, as this recipe works great as a marinara also, to the amount of spices, to whether or not you choose to put in wine … you can make this recipe your own. It also freezes great!

I think that knowing exactly what ingredients go into your recipes and how much of them is really important.

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