Marinara sauce is a tomato sauce usually made with tomatoes, garlic, natural herbs, and onions. Variations consist of capers, olives, flavors, and a dashboard of red wine. Commonly used in Italian-American cuisine, it is known as alla marinara ('seafarer's style') in its indigenous Italy, where it is normally made with tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic, and oregano, yet also in some cases with olives, capers, and salted anchovies. It is used for pastas and vermicelli, but additionally with meat or fish. The terms must not be puzzled with pastas marinara, a popular meal in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa, in which a tomato-based sauce is blended with fresh seafood. In Italy, a pasta sauce including seafood is much more frequently called alla pescatora.
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