Collection: Ready pasta sauces

Artisan ready pasta sauces with Italian tomatoes

The Minnelea ready pasta sauces have five ingredients on the label: Italian tomatoes (peeled in juice or passata), extra virgin olive oil, garlic or fresh onion, salt and the ingredient that gives the jar its name. No preservatives, colourings, thickeners or flavour enhancers: the thickness comes from reduction. They are vacuum cooked at 55 °C, a low temperature chosen to keep the tomatoes red and the oil fragrant. A 270 g glass jar dresses four plates of pasta.

The four sauces

• Cilentano Sauce — peeled tomatoes in juice 93 %, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, salt, oregano. An everyday sauce for any pasta shape.
• Basil Sauce — tomato passata 94 %, extra virgin olive oil 5 %, fresh basil, fresh onion, unrefined salt. The gentlest flavour: also a base for homemade pizza.
• Arrabbiata Sauce — peeled tomatoes in juice 93 %, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, salt, chilli. For penne all'arrabbiata and anyone who likes a bold flavour.
• Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce — tomato passata 82 %, dried tomatoes 13 %, extra virgin olive oil 4 %, onion, unrefined salt. The most intense: for short pasta, crostini or as a base to build on.

All four at once

To keep them all in your pantry, choose the four-sauce set in three sizes — 8, 12 or 18 jars — with shipping included in Italy and, from the 12-jar size, a free jar. To choose flavours and quantities individually, build your box.

How to use them

A ready sauce in a jar is already cooked: simply heat it, rather than cook it again. Warm it in a pan over medium heat for 5-7 minutes while the pasta cooks, then toss together for a minute with half a ladle of pasta water. For homemade pizza, spread it directly onto the dough before baking. Use it as a base for a quick ragù, parmigiana or baked pasta. Find timings, steps and ideas in how to use ready pasta sauce and how long to cook it.

Which sauce goes with which pasta shape?

The Cilentano Sauce works with everything: spaghetti, penne, fusilli. TheArrabbiata calls for ridged short shapes that hold the spicy sauce. The Basil Sauce, with its delicate flavour, suits long, smooth shapes such as spaghetti and linguine. The Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce, the thickest, suits rustic shapes — orecchiette, caserecce, paccheri — and is also good cold on bruschetta.

How long does a ready pasta sauce keep once opened?

Keep unopened jars in the pantry, at room temperature and away from light; the date is on the lid. Once opened, keep it in the fridge, tightly closed, and consume within a week. Leftover sauce can be frozen in individual portions: find out how in how long opened pasta sauce keeps.

How to recognise an artisan ready pasta sauce

Tomato as the first ingredient with the percentage stated, a list of five or six ingredients, extra virgin olive oil with its percentage, no preservatives or thickeners. Each criterion is explained in the guide to artisan ready pasta sauces.

Shipping

We prepare each order in 2-3 working days; express courier delivery takes 1-3 working days in Italy. Free shipping in Italy from a 27 € cart total and elsewhere in Europe from 35 €. Free returns within 30 days.