I Just Found My New Favorite Jarred Pasta Sauce
updated about 2 hours ago
In a few days, I’ll be heading home to New Jersey where I’ll likely find my mom standing at the stove, stirring four restaurant-sized stockpots full of her homemade tomato sauce. So, Mom, if you’re reading this, I kindly ask that you stop before getting too deep into this glowing review of ( gasp ) jarred pasta sauce.
Now that that’s out of the way, I’m here to rave about this recently launched line of jarred pasta sauces, from acclaimed New York City restaurant Carbone, which are now available nationwide.
I’ve tasted many a jarred pasta sauce in my day, and most of the time they taste inferior to the homemade sauce I grew up enjoying — with a few exceptions, of course. I thought nothing could ever hold a candle to Rao’s, which is so delicious that I can (and often do) eat it with a spoon. And then I tasted Carbone’s version.
For the uninitiated, Carbone is a fancy-schmancy NYC-based Italian-American restaurant where it’s notoriously difficult to score a reservation. (Despite living blocks from it, and walking past it often, I’ve never set foot inside.) Perhaps post-COVID I will put that on my bucket list, but in the meantime their brand-new bottled sauces will more than tide me over.
Because the gods of jarred pasta sauce are smiling down on me, I got my hands on the sauces (Marinara, Tomato Basil, and Arrabbiata) prior to the launch. For the purposes of this taste test I only tried the Marinara — and all I can say is wow. The hardest part of this process was waiting for the water to boil for the spaghetti. I say this because I tried the sauce right out of the jar I couldn’t wait to keep eating more. I forced myself to make a full meal, though (no eating sauce like it’s soup!).
I found that one box of thin spaghetti plus a full jar of this sauce yielded the perfect noodle-to-sauce ratio. I tossed the noodles with the sauce and didn’t have a singly dry or clumpy patch. Again, this sauce is good . It’s made with the same ingredients that you’d find in homemade sauce (Italian whole peeled tomatoes, tomato purée, onions, olive oil, sea salt, basil, garlic, and oregano), which is why it has an undeniable homemade appeal. I appreciate the fact that there’s no sugar in this recipe, either. Honestly, it tastes just like my mom’s!
If you’re looking to get your hands on a jar, too, you can order it on CarboneFineFood.com for $8.99 per 24-ounce jar. If you live in NY, NJ, CT, MA, or RI, you can also find it in certain grocery locations or via Instacart .
The $9 price tag might give you sticker shock for a jarred pasta sauce, but the contents inside are restaurant-quality. If you’re looking for the answer to a sauce + pasta = dinner equation, this is it.
What’s your favorite jarred pasta sauce?
Lauren Masur
Lifestyle Editor, Groceries
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