Marinara sauce is a tomato sauce usually made with tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions. Variants consist of capers, olives, spices, and a dash of wine. Commonly made use of in Italian-American food, it is known as alla marinara ('sailor's style') in its native Italy, where it is generally made with tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic, and oregano, however also in some cases with olives, capers, and salted anchovies. It is made use of for pastas and vermicelli, however likewise with meat or fish. The terms need to not be perplexed with spaghetti marinara, a preferred meal in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa, in which a tomato-based sauce is mixed with fresh fish and shellfish. In Italy, a pasta sauce consisting of fish and shellfish is much more typically called alla pescatora.
.