One taste of this raw marinara sauce and you’ll rethink all doubts about raw cuisine. The most flavorful raw sauce you’ve ever had! Packed with flavor and ready in only 5 minutes.
The “raw” world always made me skeptical. I mean, how good can uncooked food really taste right? Wrong. This marinara I threw together had me blown away.
It all started with a picture I saw on Facebook from The Simple Veganista, her raw vegetable pasta. It looked so good and so refreshing on the warm day we were having, not to mention I love how she names her raw meals, so I decided to jump with two feet in and create a fully raw meal of my own. I ordered a spiralizer, which has since been the love of my life, and got to planning.
There’s So Much Flavor You Won’t Believe That It’s Raw
The first thing I needed was a marinara. I liked the idea of using sun dried tomatoes like the Marina’raw’ (see what I mean?!) from The Simple Veganista, so I started there. And then magic happened.
I used thyme as my herb because I love it in my cooked marinara sauces, threw in some green onions for flavor, and a few other spices along with fresh tomatoes. Holy wow did it turn out delicious!
There was so much flavor, I couldn’t believe it was raw. It’s so easy to make too, which makes this discovery that much sweeter. Plus, I even put it on pizza so I know it’s just as good warm. See for yourself and whip some up! But make double because you’ll be sad to see this raw marinara sauce go…
Ways To Use This Raw Marinara Sauce;
- On pizza, to keep it raw and fresh tasting add to a warmed and cooked pizza base
- Zucchini noodles, use a spiralizer and create a delicious raw ‘pasta dish’
- On sandwiches
- Use as a dip for grilled cheese
- Use for Mexican dishes such as burritos, nachos etc
Recipes to try this marinara sauce with:
- Low Carb Spaghetti Squash Bowls
- Vegan Pasta Puttanesca
- Vegan Pasta Bake with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Pesto
- 1 cup sundried tomatoes not in oil
- 4 medium sweet variety tomatoes vine ripened are good
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme
- 2 green onions
- Himalayan pink salt to taste
- lemon pepper to taste
- garlic powder to taste
- Place all ingredients in a food processor, blender or high speed blender and mix until pureed into a sauce like consistency. Taste seasonings and add more to reach desired taste.
- Any tomato varieties work here, but the sweeter they are the better the taste will be.
- You can substitute fresh garlic but it will have a more pungent taste.
- I experimented with a variety of herbs, basil, parsley, oregano, but keeping it simple with thyme was my favorite. Feel free to add others!
Elizabeth says
Awesomeness!!! It was so delicious!
veggiesdontbite says
So glad to hear!
Emelie says
WOW! Absolutely loved it! So fast, so simple AND ALLLL the flavours!
veggiesdontbite says
Thank you so much Emelie! Happy you liked it!
Susan Powell says
THANK YOU!!! I am picking up the ingredients on my way home and I am making this TONIGHT!!! It looks soooo good 🙂
veggiesdontbite says
Thank you for being here!!! Hope you like it!!
Susan Powell says
The pic of the stuff in the food processor looks like it includes basil, but there is no basil in the list of ingredients…??
veggiesdontbite says
Hi Susan! Yes, I only have thyme listed in the recipe. However I experimented with a variety of other herbs. I had that in the notes, but it looks like it was erased when I switched to my new recipe card! I just went in and fixed it. Thank you!
Emily Kemp says
This sounds so delicious and fresh for summer, I love how easy it is too!
Tracey says
More raw recipes please! This looks AMAZING!
veggiesdontbite says
Thanks Tracey!!! I will put another one on my list soon!
Miriam says
Added A bit of rosemary to my latest batch–mmmmm
veggiesdontbite says
Oh YUM!!! Great call! Rosemary is so good.
Katie says
Did you soak the sundried tomatoes before using them?
veggiesdontbite says
Hi Katie! You can soak them. The ones I use aren’t super dry so I don’t but if yours are really dry and stiff it may help to soak. Hope you enjoy!
Miriam says
Hubby doesn’t like sundried tomatoes. Any suggestions for a sub?
veggiesdontbite says
Hi Miriam! Id suggest more regular tomatoes. The sundried just add a touch of a deeper flavor with keeping the raw factor. You could also achieve a similar deep flavor with a touch of tomato paste but it wouldn’t be totally raw. Id start with a tablespoon and see. But regular tomatoes would work too! If you don’t care about it being totally raw you could also add roasted tomatoes. Let me know what you try and how it worked!
Miriam says
Thanks. Going to try adding some Roma tomatoes.
veggiesdontbite says
Great! Hope it works out! Let me know how you like it!
paula says
spiralizers are awesome.. u can do sweet pot for fries and jicama.. but mostly zucc noodles!
veggiesdontbite says
I agree! You can do so much!
M-R says
You mentioned a spiralizer … but not for this recipe. Tell me – what do you use it for ?
veggiesdontbite says
I used it for the raw noodle recipe I’ll be posting on Monday! It’s the noodle dish that prompted me to create this marinara 🙂 I’ve also used the spiralizer to make curly fries!!
M-R says
I await further noos ! 🙂
veggiesdontbite says
I’m working on it!!