What's everyone's favourite pasta sauce (jar)?

Izbizzle

Just wondering what people consider to be the 'best' pasta sauce that you can buy in a jar? I've tried a fair few types - some are too sharp and tangy, some don't have enough flavour, some just taste like... well... I know fresh is best and usually make my own but it's nice sometimes to have a jar on standby. What can you recommend?

frugal_shopper_2

Why not invest in some mason jars & start preserving your homemade sauce. Every time you make pasta sauce you just need to make a bigger batch than you need, preserve the excess & pretty soon you should always have jars of sauce to hand which can be used straight from the cupboard rather than having to freeze/defrost it.

Simple water bath preservation (for high acid foods like tomato sauce) instructions can be found here:
http://www.greenlivingaustralia.com.au/homepreservingrecipes.html#pastasauce

I'm not sure any jar of sauce you could purchase would come close to the taste of homemade anyway & you would soon recoup the initial cost of buying mason jars.

happy35

Lloyd Grosmans tomato and chilli is my favourite, usually make my own but have a bottle of this in for when I need to make tea quick

juno

The Dolmio one that they discontinued Tomato and ricotta

tanith

I always found the jared sauces so salty , I make my own now..

System

I like Co-Op's healthy living (or whatever its called) pasta sauce, it's pretty plain but you can add herbs and other ingredients to add flavour. It's fairly cheap too.

williacg

I generally make my own spag bol sauce, but I always stock up on the Aldi pesto sauces (red and green). They have 2 varieties, the store cupboard version, which was about 50p the last time I bought it, and they do a fresh selection, which is a bit more expensive.

Kantankrus_Mare

I have two personal favourites.

First is Loyd Grossman's Puttanesca.

I dont like olives or anchovies but both are in this sauce and is delicious with chicken and peppers.

The second is Sharwoods Hoi Sin sauce

Not technically a pasta sauce I guess but is one of my favourite meals with chicken, spring onions and cashew nuts, Served with egg noodles.

Anyone got any homemade pasta sauce recipes?

Made lots of tomato sauce with homegrown tomatoes last year and would like to expand on this.

Callie22

I make my own pasta sauce (which you can also use as pizza sauce) by putting a good dollop of olive oil in a pan and adding a couple of cloves of chopped garlic. I cook this slowly until it's just softened (not burnt), then I turn the heat up and chuck in a couple of tins of good quality chopped tomatoes. It'll sizzle like crazy so you need to stick a lid on it. When the sizzling dies down, I take the lid off and add a squeeze of tomato puree, salt, pepper and a bit of sugar. I simmer it slowly until it's really thick, and that's it. To this basic sauce I add herbs, fresh basil, capers, chilli, anchovies etc, depending on what I'm using it for. It's very strong, so a little goes a long way - I normally make a double or triple batch and freeze some.

jezza2412

Homepride Creamy Tomato and Herb for me.

I tried Gordon Ramsay's special Red Nose Day Wild Mushroom and Mascarpone sauce the other day, and was VERY disappointed- it was nothing special at all...

lizimuffin

none of them, I find them all too salty for me. I buy chopped tomatoes for 33p and make my own.