Spagetti Sauce - Sugar or no sugar?

[Ryanwb]

Who sugars their sauce?

 

[Mulli]

No.

 

[Divide Et Impera]

Sugar? In spaghetti sauce?

 

[Ryanwb]

The yes option shouldn't have a "?" in it.... I don't know what i was thinking

 

[Mulli]

Too much acid? Get better tomatoes.

 

[Linderbee]

no sugar...never heard of doing that

 

[former user 1]

I sugar my spaghetti sauce. Not much, just enough to cut the acid.

 

[Pariah]

I sugar my water when I boil corn on the cob, but not my pasta sauce.

 

[82CardsGrad]

I'm full-blooded Italian. Lived with my grandfather for 4 years who came to America in the 30's from Italy. My wife is also full-blooded Italian...
The sugar debate has long raged within most Italian families... Some do. Some don't. Some do a little. Some do a lot...
My grandfather taught me a long time ago to shave a carrot stick into the sauce.
So, after you saute' the onions and garlic, perhaps brown some italian sausage and throw them into the pot with the onions & garlic, throw in your crushed tomatoes, some basil, salt & pepper, you then peel a carrot into the sauce... Works better than sugar and leaves a much better taste...

 

[Assface]

Little bit of sugar, lots of garlic.

 

[schutd]

Good lord no. Sweat out your onion and garlic, add some totato paste until its a deep red burgundy color, add a 1/2 cup of red wine and reduce it (thats where you'll get your sweet). then add your crushed tomatoes, chicken stock and never put ffresh herbs in until the end. If you used dried, put em in at the beginning, but never use fresh until the end. S and P, a pinch of pepper flakes, simmer for a couple hours, good to go.

 

[kps0001]

cheddar cheese in the sauce is the way my wife does it.

 

[former user 1]

cheddar cheese in the sauce is the way my wife does it.

I couldn't do cheese in the sauce itself. I like the cheese garlic toast though.

 

[Divide Et Impera]

Cheddar cheese? Are you kidding? This ain't Spaghetti-O's, bro....

 

[AZZenny]

I used to use a pinch now and then, if the sauce needed balance. I'm inclined to put just a splash of red wine or balsamic vinegar in nowadays. Lot of garlic, lot of basil, and a lot of the best olive oil money can buy.

 

[kps0001]

Cheddar cheese? Are you kidding? This ain't Spaghetti-O's, bro....

I guess that is what happens when a German makes Italian food. It is actually pretty good.

 

[phillycard]

Cheddar cheese? Are you kidding? This ain't Spaghetti-O's, bro....

 

[phillycard]

My wife does the sugar thing. I don't need to do that, as most sauces are sugared up enough.

 

[Beaver]

I voted no, but I have heard of adding brown sugar to the sauce.

 

[BACH]

3/4 teaspoon to add balance in a tomato sauce for 2 people.