What is the difference between spaghetti sauce, and Marinara Sauce?

Answer 1

spagetti sauce is thicker and used for putting in on pasta

marinara sauce can be put on pasta, but it is usually used for dipping breadsticks in

Answer 2

Marinara is a spaghetti sauce, but not all spaghetti sauces are marinara. There's carbonara, puttanesca, and a whole bunch of others.

It's like saying "What's the difference between citrus and tangerines?" The first is a category, the second is a more specific example. If you don't know what you are getting, ask the waiter or read the ingredients.

Answer 3

Marinara Sauce has no meat. Spaghetti sauce MAY have meet.

Answer 4

If you ask for a Marinara sauce in Italy you will receice a sauce with a variety of shell fish. (that's in Italy). Spaghetti sauce is a tomato based sauce with or withiut meat.

Answer 5

Hmm... I don't know if you're comparing marinara sauce and tomato spaghetti sauce, but if it's meat sauce, then the spaghetti sauce has meat...

Answer 6

Other than snob appeal :-)....

Marinara is very light and fresh, barely cooked tomato based sauce. No tom paste, just light and chunky, w/ recognizable chunks of veggies. No meat.

Spghetti sauce is slow-simmered all day, usually contains a little chianti (or should IMO!) and may have meat in it in the form of sausage links, meatballs, or ground up. Thicker and richer, nearly smooth b/c the components cook alld ay and fall apart.

Answer 7

Marinara sauce is "spaghetti sauce" that is vegetarian (no meat). If you add meat to marinara sauce, it technically becomes bolognese. This, I think, is what We would consider to be spaghetti sauce.

Answer 8

Spices? Marinara sauce always seems more bland to me.

Answer 9

Spaghetti is thicker where marinara is thinner and more watered down. Both can contain meat, etc.

Answer 10

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