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    Home » Weight Watcher Recipes

    Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce

    Published: Sep 21, 2015 · Modified: Oct 10, 2022 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 63 Comments

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    If you ever went looking for a low sodium jarred marinara sauce at the grocery store and didn't have any luck, you can easily make your own at home. My favorite marinara sauce is from Rao's. It has 330 mg for ½ cup of sauce and that is quite a lot. My recipe has only 26 mg of sodium.

    Tips for Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce

    To make the sauce more flavorful you can sub in low sodium chicken broth or wine in place of the water that the recipe calls for. There are some comments below about adding wine to the recipe but feel free to do that if you wish. Again adding wine or chicken broth instead of water is optional.

    I like to buy the jars of already chopped garlic that are at the grocery store to save time on dicing the garlic myself. You can buy fresh garlic and chop that yourself.

    Marinara sauce and spaghetti noodles can be a quick meal to make at home. Add in some ground beef for some protein or if you're a vegetarian or vegan Banza pasta has a pretty decent source of protein in just the noodles.

    This spaghetti sauce without the ground beef added to it is 1 smart point per serving.

    I like to buy the 96% lean ground beef at Wal-mart to add to this pasta sauce. One 2oz serving of this sauce with the ground beef added is 2 smart points. 

    How to Low Sodium Marinara Sauce 

    To print the full recipe please see the recipe card below. 

    Spray a non-stick pan with cooking spray. Set to medium-low heat. 

    Cook the onions until they're translucent and add the tomato sauce and tomato paste; then water. Stir in all the spices, and let the sauce simmer on low for 30 minutes. Adding in ground beef is optional.

    Serving size: ½ cup.

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    If you’ve tried this Low Sodium Marinara Sauce recipe or any other recipe on the site, let me know in the comment section how it turned out. Snap a picture and upload it to Pinterest. 

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    Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce


    ★★★★★

    4.9 from 16 reviews

    • Author: Jenna
    • Yield: 8 1x
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    Ingredients

    • ¼ cup chopped onions
    • 15 oz no salt added tomato sauce (canned)
    • 8 tablespoons of no salt added tomato past (Hunt's)
    • 1 ½ tablespoons sugar
    • 3 tsps garlic, diced or minced
    • 1 ½ tsps ground oregano
    • 2 tbsps leaves basil (dried)
    • ⅛ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
    • 1 ½ cups of water

    Instructions

    1. Spray a non-stick pan with cooking spray. Set to medium-low heat. 
    2. Cook the onions until they're translucent and add the tomato sauce and tomato paste; then water. Stir in all the spices, and let the sauce simmer on low for 30 minutes. Adding in ground beef is optional.
    3. Serving size: ½ cup. 

    Notes

    My WW Personal Points: 2 Click here to see in recipe builder (will have to log in) 

    • Category: Dinner
    • Method: Stovetop
    • Cuisine: Italian

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: ½ cup
    • Calories: 35
    • Sugar: 5g
    • Sodium: 26mg
    • Fat: 0g
    • Saturated Fat: 0g
    • Carbohydrates: 8g
    • Fiber: 1g
    • Protein: 1g

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    Comments

    1. Jenna says

      August 04, 2022 at 7:36 pm

      Thanks Tory!

    2. Tory B says

      August 04, 2022 at 6:39 pm

      This is an amazing sauce. We make it often! Thank you for sharing.

      ★★★★★

    3. Scott says

      July 18, 2022 at 11:29 pm

      Excellent marinara recipe! I'm so happy I found it. Added some rotisserie chicken pieces and served over chickpea penne pasta. Excellent meal!

      ★★★★★

    4. George E Melanson says

      June 07, 2022 at 10:26 pm

      A nice basic sauce, I omitted the pepper flakes and cut the sugar by 1/3rd. I added some carrot and mushrooms. Reminds me of a sauce I made years ago after a friend became a Bhuddist. This sauce and thin slices Tofu and veg cheese made a fair lazzagna. Experiment and see what you like best.

    5. Danna says

      April 25, 2022 at 7:23 pm

      My family ate every bite! The three year olds scarfed it down! My husband wasn't real happy with sugar being in it but he wants me to make it again. A real winner for a low sodium dish.

      ★★★★

    6. Sue says

      November 03, 2021 at 9:53 pm

      Very good.

      ★★★★★

    7. DDX says

      May 27, 2021 at 9:58 am

      BARB: There is no ADDED salt to the tomato sauce and tomato paste, but tomatoes inherently contain a very small amount of sodium (a small tomato has ~11 mg of sodium.)

    8. Jenna says

      March 20, 2021 at 3:16 pm

      Unfortunately the app I use to figure out the sodium content doesn't have a breakdown of where that comes from. It just does per serving size.

    9. Barb says

      March 20, 2021 at 2:35 pm

      Where is the sodium coming from in this recipe, since the tomato sauce and paste are salt free?

    10. Jenna says

      March 07, 2021 at 4:07 pm

      I use Myfitnesspal to figure out nutrition and the potassium is 243mg. Not sure what the phosphate levels would be, Mfitnesspal doesn't figure that out. You can easily plug in any link from my site to figure that info out if you use that app as well. Thanks.

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