Turkey Pasta with Rao's Marinara Sauce
Grain bowls and salad bowls - coupled with plant-based proteins such as beans/legumes, tofu, tempeh, or meat options like chicken, or even seafood - are still part of the family meal plan. However, soups and stews, porridge and congee start to have a presence at the dinner table more often during the winter season as these hot and warm dishes says nothing but comfort, just like this Mushroom Turkey Pasta with Marinara Sauce.
Store-bought jarred pasta sauce is convenient and saves a lot of cooking time in the kitchen. However, I hardly use jarred pasta sauce because it is usually too high in sodium and lacks fresh tomato flavor; until I came across several good reviews on Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce.
The day came for a taste-test of this jarred pasta sauce when it was on sale in the grocery store.
Rao's Homemade is high-quality store-bought pasta sauce. It is not overly salty, and does not taste artificial. Looking at the ingredients - the sauce is made with Italian tomatoes as the first ingredient (not tomato puree!), onions, garlic, salt, pepper, oregano, basil.
I could have just heated up the sauce and served it with pasta. However, since I am making a batch that will last two to three meals (each meal serving two), I bulked it up with more ingredients such as carrots, ground turkey and mushrooms.
Mushroom Turkey Pasta with Rao's Marinara Sauce
Ingredients:
I organic yellow onion, finely minced
2 organic carrots, finely diced
1 lb organic ground turkey
4-5 fresh shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 bottle (24 oz) Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce
Salt and black pepper to taste
Directions: Saute the onions and carrots till they are soft and tender. Add in ground turkey, breaking up the turkey to smaller bits while cooking. Add in mushrooms, mix well, then add in pasta sauce, mix well and allow to simmer at low-medium heat for 20-30minutes.
The leftover sauce can be frozen. Any day it calls for pasta, this sauce can be reheated and then served with pasta and freshly steamed vegetables (e.g. broccoli, cauliflower, green beans).
Would I buy Rao's marinara sauce again? Yes I would if it goes on sale (range $5.99-$6.99). No, I would not buy it at the regular retail price $8.99.
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