Your favorite pre-made, store-bought spaghetti sauce?

I usually take a quality brand sauce and embellish the hell out it.
Extra spices, tomato paste, canned tomatoes. Homemade canned tomatoes if any in the cupboard
Onions, green pepper, mushrooms etc.
And simmer a longtime. Add homemade meatballs.
Of course, better the next day.

 

Even just some sauteed garlic in olive oil is enough to make a two dollar jar of sauce delicious. Anything else is a bonus.

 

La salsa Jarred è disgustosa

 

Pecorino Romano (sheep cheese) - Straight up or with some pesto, but to satisfy store-bought I'll have to stick with just the cheese.

(I don't put tomato sauce on pasta...)

Alternatively, the sharpest possible cheddar grated as finely as possible so it melts into gooey goodness from the heat of the pasta.

 

Joking...

 

Classico is my go-to as well. I like their four cheese the best. Basil is great as well.

 

i'm not one of the gourmets, but:

 

That’s a good one too.

 

DeLallo Foods – Authentic Italian Foods & Gourmet Entertaining | DeLallo

Check them out if you are located in Pennsylvania (Jeannette).

They offer many private label products, the quality is high and they are very demanding of their suppliers (I have direct knowledge of this).

Plenty of regional specialties sourced from Italy.

Their products can also be found in other stores, you can use their store locator to find out where.

Disclaimer: I do not work for/with them.
Hope it's ok to post this.

Buon appetito

 

We've used the Newman's varieties quite a bit over the years, and found the quality to be good across the board. That one's ok, but we keep coming back to the basic Marinara.



With that brand, it's hard to go wrong. Just find the flavor you like, and you're generally good to go.

 

Hard to get these days in Ireland, but the Newman's Own sauces have never disappointed me.
My favourite these days is this one, from a smallish company in Cork with a great reputation for all it's products...

 

My problem with most jarred sauces is that they're SO sweet. Like unnaturally sweet. When you check out the label, there is added sugar, which I've never understood. I can't even eat the stuff anymore.

I haven't bought jarred sauce in years. I make a super simple sauce with canned crushed tomatoes, EVOO, garlic, and some dried herbs. Takes very little time and you can make large amounts to store.

Quick Marinara Sauce

 

I have never had a jarred sauce that compares to a basic home made sauce, which can be made in well under 30 minutes (although my grandmother's recipe, which I sweated out of her many years ago, takes hours). You can get a basic sauce going, and it will be ready by the time your pasta is made. Much cheaper, and much better.

 

Lucky to have a old family sauce as well as many other dishes from my mom's Italian heritage. Enough in fact that I created a cookbook of my mom's recipes for her 81st birthday.