Rao’s Marinara Sauce

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By Joe Yonan

This simple, classical marinara condiment is pedigreed: The look is from Rao’s, the New York City instauration whose store-bought condiment is besides beloved. (It was the wide victor successful The Washington Post’s 2023 sensation trial of market store marinara sauces.) The ingredients are minimal: bully canned San Marzano tomatoes, olive oil, and tiny amounts of garlic, onion, oregano and basil. Conveniently, this makes astir the aforesaid magnitude arsenic a 24-ounce jar of Rao’s — with astir fractional the sodium.

Adapted from “Rao’s Classics” by Frank Pellegrino Sr. and Frank Pellegrino Jr. (St. Martin’s Press, 2016).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 5 (makes astir 2 1/2 cups)

One (28-ounce) tin full peeled San Marzano tomatoes, preferably no-salt-added oregon reduced-sodium (such arsenic Cento brand), with their juices
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons finely chopped yellowish onion
1 ail clove, finely grated oregon pressed
1/2 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
3 ample caller basil leaves, torn
1/2 spoon chopped caller oregano leaves
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, positive much to taste

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1/2 cup)

Calories
90
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
9 g
Sodium
207 mg
Cholesterol
0 mg
Protein
1 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Rao’s Classics” by Frank Pellegrino Sr. and Frank Pellegrino Jr. (St. Martin’s Press, 2016).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published February 28, 2025

Updated March 18, 2026