A weekly menu can include many dishes with marinara sauce.
The first step in preparing any recipe, before even assembling the ingredients, is to decide how much you want to make. Marinara, or meatless tomato sauce, brings to mind spaghetti dinners. But marinara sauce can be used for more than the classic spaghetti and meatballs. With a bit of menu planning you can make enough marinara sauce for several different meals during the week, and even freeze it for later use.
Instructions
1. Prepare your weekly menu. You can use marinara for main courses like spaghetti, Chicken Tenders with Marinara Sauce and Steak Pizzaiola, or for making side dishes like Italian green beans or stuffed hot peppers. It can be baked into meatloaf and used as a condiment. You can even use marinara sauce to make tomato soup.
2. Count how many servings you need of each dish. Once you have decided which dishes using marinara sauce you plan to make, add the number of people who will be eating each dish at each meal. Add any leftover servings you wish to keep.
3. Calculate how much marinara you will need for each dish. For example, if you will be serving six portions of Steak Pizzaiola and your recipe calls for 2 cups of marinara to make four portions, you will need 3 cups of marinara sauce to make enough Pizzaiola to serve six portions.
4. Add together the amounts of marinara sauce you determined for each dish to get the final amount of marinara sauce you will need. Make an appropriately sized pot of homemade marinara or, if using from a jar, convert the total cups of sauce you will need into ounces to determine how many jars to buy. One cup is approximately 8 oz. of sauce.
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