The Best Cooking Sauces for Easy Meals

Everyone loves convenience. Who wouldn't want to cook up a curry or a chilli in minutes? The problem is, the sacrifice for speed is usually flavour. 

That isn't the case with our range of cooking sauces. Our Simmer Sauce range features six jarred sauces covering Italian, Mexican and Indian cuisines. They're made with natural ingredients and are loaded with flavour.

Get to know the flavours...

Special Makhani Simmer Sauce

The most popular jarred cooking sauce in the range, and one of the original flavours that the range launched with. Special Makhani is a mild North Indian-inspired curry sauce. Awarded a 1-star Great Taste award in 2021, this sauce is rich and creamy.

The overriding flavour is tomato, with a fragrant punch of fenugreek. Our favourite use for this is a classic chickpea and paneer curry, but you could also use it to coat chicken or paneer before grilling. 

Spicy Marinara Simmer Sauce

Your go-to spicy pasta cooking sauce. Spicy Marinara is packed with juicy tomatoes, garlic, oregano and red jalapeño. Spread this onto a ciabatta for pizza subs or mix in with pasta and meatballs. As with all Sauce Shop condiments, this spicy pasta sauce features no artificial ingredients.

Try it out by making our Spicy Chorizo Pasta Bake.

Ranchero Simmer Sauce

Making Mexican-inspired dishes has never been this easy. Our Ranchero Simmer Sauce is a rich tomato cooking sauce that's bursting with garlic and warming cayenne. The recipe features our in-house aged jalapenos bringing heat and fruitiness. There's also absolutely no added sugar in the recipe. Use it as a chilli con carne base sauce, or use it for enchiladas. 

Golden Coconut Curry Simmer Sauce

The second curry sauce in the range, meet Golden Coconut Curry. Compared to Special Makhani, it's super creamy and fresh. Expect a smooth and fragrant coconut curry sauce, with turmeric and Kashmiri chilli. Make a banging vegetable or prawn curry with this sauce.

Want a quick recipe? Try our Paneer, Mushroom, Spinach Curry.

Smoky Southwest Simmer Sauce

Rich and smoky, this cooking sauce is packed with tomato, smoked paprika and chipotle. Making Mexican-inspired dishes has never been this quick or easy. Make crunch wraps, or use in a chilli con carne. Smoky Southwest could also be used in place of salsa too, so go ahead and spread it on top of nachos!

Mother Tomato Simmer Sauce

The only pasta sauce you need and one of the heroes of our Simmer Sauce range. Expect lots of juicy tomatoes, just the right amount of garlic and a familiar hint of oregano. Sometimes, simple is the best. This pasta sauce is super flexible, stir through cooked pasta, use it as the sauce in a pasta bake (like this Chorizo Gnocchi Bake) or use it as a fresh pizza base sauce. There's also no added sugar in Mother Tomato, so it works for anyone trying to cut down their sugar intake.