Sauce Recipes

Bolognese

Bolognese, the dreamy (and easy) Italian meat sauce, pairs with more than pasta. Work it into baked potatoes, bell peppers, rice, or nachos!

Caesar dressing dripping off a spoon into a jar.

Homemade Caesar Dressing

$2.71 recipe / $0.34 serving

This rich, tangy, and flavorful homemade Caesar dressing is easy to prepare, and will take all your homemade salads to the next level.

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Easy Nacho Cheese

This easy no-roux nacho cheese sauce recipe is smooth, melty, and absolutely fool-proof. Great for nachos, vegetables, and more!

A large white bowl filled with cooked penne pasta, a hand is pouring alfredo sauce in the center of the bowl from a glass mason jar in the lower left side of the image, and there are various ingredients around the bowl mostly out of frame.

Homemade Alfredo Sauce

$2.67 RECIPE / $0.67 SERVING

This thick, creamy Homemade Alfredo Sauce recipe is a quick and easy way to make a delicious, budget-friendly dinner in less than 30 minutes!

Lentil Bolognese

$5.58 recipe / $1.40 serving

Lentil bolognese is a rich and hearty pasta sauce that is budget-friendly and full of bold flavors. Plus, it makes tasty leftovers!

Side shot of a spoon drizzling caramel sauce in a mason jar.

Easy Caramel Sauce

($1.68 recipe / $0.11 serving)

If you've been looking for a buttery, fail-safe, easy caramel sauce that you can drizzle on all of the things, you've found it!

Blueberry Sauce

$4.54 recipe / $0.28 serving

Have you heard the good news? You can get this extraordinarily yummy blueberry sauce on your table in about fifteen minutes with very minimal effort.

Overhead shot of a wooden bowl with sour cream in it that's topped with chives and is surrounded by potato chips.

How To Make Sour Cream

$1.42 recipe

If you've run out of sour cream and don't want to run to the store for more- you can make it at home with just two ingredients and a little upper body strength!

Overhead view of a bowl of sofrito with a wooden spoon.

How To Make Sofrito

$2.53 recipe / $0.36 serving

Sofrito is the aromatic flavor base of many Caribbean dishes. It's budget-friendly, easy to make, and pure magic in almost any savory recipe.

Strawberry Syrup

$2.37 recipe / $0.40 serving

Homemade strawberry syrup is so easy to make and it tastes great in and on everything from yogurt and ice cream to waffles and pancakes!

close up of enchilada sauce dripping off a wooden spoon into a jar.

Easy Enchilada Sauce

$0.80 batch

It only takes 10 minutes and a few ingredients to make this super easy homemade enchilada sauce that is bursting with flavor.

Pasta sauce in a slow cooker garnished with parsley

Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce

$4.40 recipe / $0.63 per cup

Let the slow cooker do all the work for you when you make this big batch of freezer-friendly homemade spaghetti sauce.