Spaghetti sauce will be ‘magically transformed’ if you add 1 ingredien
A pasta dish is always a winner for households across the UK because of its simplicity and versatility. For many, pasta topped with a bit of spaghetti sauce is more than enough for a good dinner. However, it all comes down to how much flavour your sauce has. For those who like making their own spaghetti sauce, although relatively straightforward, figuring out what extra ingredients to add to give it a bit of a boost can be challenging, something that many people relate to.
However, one simple ingredient is said to transform spaghetti sauce, even making ready-made sauce taste better. The kitchen staple was revealed after a Reddit user named schmackers asked for home cooks’ secret ingredients for spaghetti sauce.
User Panlakes responded: “Butter is the key to mellowing out a fast red sauce. It’s practically a cheat code.”
Butter was recommended by a number of other Reddit users, who also vouched for the common ingredient. Fusionofwonder wrote: “Even a little butter makes a world of difference”.
Other users shared that they add butter at the end of their recipe, and despite the multiple suggestions, one user was shocked about the little knowledge of butter making such a difference to spaghetti sauce.
Goblyn79 said: “It’s amazing how few people said butter, you can literally just take crappy jarred sauce and add a generous knob of butter and it magically transforms it into something better.
“I think people are just afraid and think that you can only use olive oil when cooking Italian-esque food.”
According to the many users who shared their suggestions on the online platform, the main secret to a good spaghetti sauce is not overcomplicating it.
Rohm418 said they “spent so many years trying different things” when all they needed was an onion and, of course, butter.
However, whether you let it simmer with the sauce, or add it right at the end, for many others “a truly abuorb amount” of dairy ingredient is more than enough to level up the sauce.