Italian

Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara

Name: Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb spaghetti; 24 oz jarred marinara sauce; 1/2 cup grated parmesan; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 tsp salt

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Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb spaghetti
24 oz jarred marinara sauce
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Boil the spaghetti in salted water until al dente, then drain, reserving a splash of pasta water.
Meanwhile warm the jarred marinara in a saucepan.
Toss the drained spaghetti with the marinara and olive oil, loosening with pasta water if needed.
Divide among bowls and top with parmesan.

Watch how to cook Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 520 kcal
Protein: 18 g
Carbs: 92 g
Fat: 9 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 1130 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Weeknight Spaghetti with Jarred Marinara takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.