Marinara sauce is a tomato sauce typically made with tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions. Variations consist of capers, olives, spices, and a dashboard of wine. Extensively used in Italian-American cuisine, it is called alla marinara ('sailor's style') in its native Italy, where it is usually made with tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic, and oregano, but additionally sometimes with olives, capers, and salted anchovies. It is used for spaghetti and vermicelli, but also with meat or fish. The terms ought to not be puzzled with spaghetti marinara, a popular dish in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa, in which a tomato-based sauce is combined with fresh seafood. In Italy, a pasta sauce consisting of seafood is much more typically called alla pescatora.
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