Darshana Thacker Wendel
Darshana Thacker Wendel is a vegan chef specializing in whole-food, plant-based cuisine. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute, she is the author of the Forks Over Knives: Flavor! cookbook, recipe author for the book Forks Over Knives Family, and recipe contributor to The New York Times best-selling book The Forks Over Knives Plan. Her recipes have been published in The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, Forks Over Knives magazine, and LA Yoga magazine online. Visit darshanaskitchen.com for more.



Comments (11)
I make this in large batches and freeze in quart containers. It is our family favorite. I will add various vegetables depending on my pasta theme. Absolutely wonderful marinara!
How should I adjust the recipe if I want to use canned tomatoes instead of fresh, as they are not in season?
I made a good sauce using 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes & 1 -6 oz can tomato paste. It was nice & thick & very tasty. My go to sauce.
I don’t have fresh tomatoes so I want to use all canned tomatoes also. In Ella’s response to Ilka’s question about using all fresh tomatoes, she said the fresh tomatoes in the recipe equal the same amount as the canned tomatoes so I assume you can use double the canned tomatoes in place of the fresh and canned. I will try this now.
I am in india
Can I use fresh one type of tomatoes for crushed and diced both ?
If yes Can u advice the wt.quantity
Alka, I too was curious about using all fresh tomatoes, so I googled the conversion. It appears they are using equal quantities of fresh and canned tomatoes, so you could just double the amount of fresh tomatoes. The texture will be a little different – canned tomatoes do not break down as quickly and remain more chunky. You may wish to add half of the tomatoes later during cooking so they don’t disintegrate. Or, if you are in the practice of canning your own tomatoes at home, you could open up some jars of your own home-canned tomatoes.
Is it one and one half 28 oz cans of crushed tomatoes? So 28 oz plus 14 oz of crushed tomatoes? Sounds like a great recipe. Please let me know about the canned tomatoes.
Yes, 28 + 14 oz., which is 42 oz. total.
—FOK editors
1 1/2 = 28+14
I saw this recipe in your magazine. We love it! I use it wherever marinara sauce is used.
Can you use canned tomatoes for the 2-1/4 lbs of fresh tomatoes? How much, do you think? Drained?