10 Ways to Make Store Bought Sauce Taste Homemade | How to Improve Your Jarred Sauces | We Tried It

Here are ten tricks to getting that great homemade taste out store bought sauces. By adding just a few ingredients, you can greatly improve your pantry sauce’s flavor, giving the impression that you’ve been cooking it all day long. Note: while we’re focusing on pasta sauce, these methods will work with just about any sauce.

0:00 Introduction
0:14 Heat the sauce up
0:33 Add veggies and aromatics
1:01 Add wine
1:26 Add seasoned proteins
1:46 Add acids
2:19 Add sweetness
2:35 Add dairy
3:09 Add dried spices
3:35 Add fresh herbs
4:01 Save starchy water
4:20 Let’s try these out
4:36 how to jazz up store bought salsa
5:38 How to make jarred tomato sauce taste homemade
7:15 Before and after - tomato sauce
8:02 Before and after - alfredo sauce

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10 Ways to Make Store Bought Sauce Taste Homemade | How to Jazz Up Your Jarred Sauces | We Tried It

[dizziechef]

I’m going to do this in a huge huge pan. Then get my jars ready and add my things you mentioned and can about 20 pint jars of my Pasta sauce. Can’t wait. I suggest add mushrooms, more onions, more green pepper, more garlic. I do this once a year. I’m glad I found you. Your magic ingredient for me in canning is add pasta water. We cannot can slurries or flour so this is magic for canners. I’m happy about this. I never thought of this thickening before.

[julesmond]

I always do something to my store bought sauces, I just need to make them my own. Your ideas are spot on👍😊

[maggie-qm]

I do a lot of these already, especially with herbs, and peppers in salsa.

[Opineify]

I also like to add some ground nutmeg to the alfredo jar sauce. I use all those same tricks!

[jimbodapimp]

I really love your videos! I have Asperger's and cooking, shopping and eating is a difficult task for me. I feel like I can accomplish anything while watching your videos! Thanks Again and I'll be watching. =)

[sharond.]

I love Botticelli.I buy whatever is on sale. Right now I'm making jarred spaghetti sauce which is a mix of Bertolli and Classico. Using ground turkey, chopped Turkey pepperoni, garlic, onions, bell pepper, garlic and zucchini. I'm going to add some evaporated milk at the end. Seasonings are salt, oregano, basil, and complete seasoning.

[dawnphun]

I had some some rose tomato sauce, added some 11% milk fat plain yogurt, leftover onions, jalapeño juice, garlic, and a couple cans of tuna. It’s was so good!!! To thicken it up, I added some leftover dried egg noodles.

[christinabaldwin]

I am going to try all of these ideas! Thank you☺

[arlenerodriguez]

Thank You!! This video is super helpful. Full of great tips/tricks and ideas. And, I will for sure be incorporating many of them into my cooking with jarred sauces. So grateful. Thanks loads for sharing.

[Tainted_Julz_Radio]

Also bacon is amazing in Alfredo sauce. I make it so it’s caramelised and allot of it is crunchy and oh my goodness it’s so good

[nancypike]

Hi Nicole...Love all the ideas you share with us...I have been starting to make and bake a lot of these recipes...you are very funny, love watching you and your family👍🥰

[mohanm.v.]

I liked the way you explained and demonstrated the 10 Ways to Make Store-Bought Sauce Taste Homemade! I love fettuccine pasta with store-bought alfredo sauce. Hope to spice it up with your tips. Thank you for sharing. Mohan (Toronto)

[EliteClinicalResearch]

This was a really well done video. Thank you very much!

[rdpj]

These are great tips! Pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

[notasb]

I add my own seasonings and I brown ground beef and season it as well then add it to jar sauce and it's not to bad.

[sylviaseri]

I make Italian sauce in a hurry. Fry up meat as you did then I add the jarred sauce plus a can of Italian crushed tomatoes, some basil, grated cheese, etc. Simmer for about 15 minutes. Tastes like homemade.

[Michael-yscn]

Olive oil and canned tomato slices. A can of Cream of mushroom is good with the alfredo sauce jar

[jacquelinesung]

Nicole can you cook up some pork chops and ;)
Love all your videos 🥰

[pepper]

As a Southern Girl would to see you do a course on canning sauces, vegetables etc. For long term storage

[peterstyles]

You really should introduce yourself more often. I know your first name is Nicole, but when I thank the YouTube chefs who inspired me to write a collection of recipes, I sure would like to include you in the list.