While Mexican restaurants can be found in many parts of North America, Europe and in many cities around the world, restaurants outside of Mexico often feature non-traditional ingredients, such as grated American-style cheese, " nacho " cheese or tomato-based sauce substitutes for Mexican chile-based sauces or mole, or the common use in the United States of hard-shelled tacos instead of the Mexican style " soft " or fresh tortillas.

The invention of the first tomato sauces dates back from the late 18th century: the first written record of pasta with tomato sauce can be found in the 1790 cookbook L ' Apicio Moderno by Roman chef Francesco Leonardi.

The use of similar fermented anchovy sauces in Europe can be traced back to the 17th century.

The bread can be eaten either dry or wet ( with water, wine, or sauces ).

Stock can be made with less palatable parts of the chicken, such as feet, necks or bones: the higher bone content in these parts contributes more gelatin to the liquid, making it a better base for sauces.

They can be sliced into strips and fried, roasted whole or in pieces, or chopped and incorporated into salsas or other sauces, of which they are often a main ingredient.

Extracts can be made and incorporated into hot sauces.

Numerous other sauces can be created from it with addition of various herbs, spices, and finely chopped pickles.

Italian sauces reflect the rich variety of the Italian cuisine and can be divided in different categories:

Chestnuts can be dried and milled into flour, which can then be used to prepare breads, cakes, pancakes, pastas ( it is the original ingredient for polenta, known in Corsica as pulenda ), or used as thickener for stews, soups, and sauces.

In North America the term can refer to a wider variety of sauces and gravy is often thicker than in Britain.

Buffalo wing sauce can be made with a variable amount of heat / spiciness, with the names of these sauces generally corresponding to the level of heat, such as mild, medium, or hot.

In this form, the Hot Bar can be prepared according to any particular vendor's ' secret ' recipe: plain, mixed with vegetables such as diced carrot or whole perilla leaf, or served with any number of sauces or condiments such as ketchup or mustard.

" Red " guavas can be used as the base of salted products such as sauces, substituting for tomatoes, especially for those sensitive to the latter's acidity.

Customers can purchase a range of Nando's branded sauces, sprinkles and apparel.

Dried chanterelles can also be crushed into flour and used in seasoning in soups or sauces.

Dosa can be stuffed with fillings of vegetables and sauces to make a quick meal.

It can be cooked with vegetables and various sauces.

Tagliatelle can be served with a variety of sauces, though the classic is a meat sauce or Bolognese sauce.

Conpoy has a strong and distinctive flavor that can be easily identified when used in rice congee, stir fries, stews, and sauces.

The aged cheese is often grated in salads, soups, pastas, and sauces while the fresh Asiago is sliced to prepare panini or sandwiches ; it can also be melted on a variety of dishes and cantaloupe.

If finely chopped it can also be used in sauces, but there is little to recommend about its flavour.

Sweetness in a wine can balance tartness in food, especially if the food has some sweetness ( such as dishes with sweet & sour sauces ).

Agar-agar may also be used as the gelling agent in gel clarification, a culinary technique used to clarify stocks, sauces, and other liquids.

Each of these sauces would be made in large quantities in his kitchen, as they were then capable of forming the basis of multiple derivatives.

The leaves may be puréed in soups and sauces or added to salads ; they have a flavour that is similar to kiwifruit or sour wild strawberries.

Tomato sauce is any of a very large number of sauces made primarily from tomatoes, usually to be served as part of a dish ( rather than as a condiment ).

Tomato based sauces served with pasta would usually be referred to as pasta sauce.

It is unknown how many sauces Carême is responsible for, but it was estimated to be in the hundreds.

Although the word ' ketchup ' by itself usually refers to tomato ketchup, it may also be used to describe sauces from other vegetables or fruits.

Soy sauce may be made either by fermentation or by hydrolysis ; some commercial sauces contain a mixture of fermented and chemical sauces.

It may be served on the skewer for eating out of hand, in a pita sandwich with garnishes and sauces, or on a dinner plate, often with fried potatoes.

Garlic * and anchovies are used in many of the region's sauces, as in Poulet Provençal, which uses white wine, tomatoes, herbs, and sometimes anchovies, and Pastis is found everywhere that alcohol is served.

Similar sauces are found elsewhere in the region.

It is quite different from most of the remoulade sauces that are frequently found in Louisiana and generally do not have a mayonnaise base.

In 2002, a study appearing in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted by the University of Texas – Houston Medical School, found 66 % of the sauces tested ( 71 samples tested, sauces being either: salsa, guacamole, or pico de gallo ) from restaurants in Guadalajara, Jalisco and 40 % of those from Houston, Texas, were contaminated with E. coli bacteria, although only the sauces from Guadalajara contained the types of E. coli that cause diarrhea.

The researchers found the Mexican sauces from Guadalajara contained fecal contaminants and higher levels of the bacteria more frequently than those of the sauces from Houston, possibly as a result of more common improper refrigeration of the Mexican sauces.

In foods, xanthan gum is most often found in salad dressings and sauces.

* Hot sauces based on North & Latin American types ( Tabsaco, Huffman, Kaitaia Fire are most commonly available but Mexican and Peruvian branded sauces may also be found )

Often found in Jamaican hot sauces.

In 2001 the United Kingdom Food Standards Agency found in tests of various oyster sauces and soy sauces that some 22 % of samples contained a chemical called 3-MCPD ( 3-monochloropropane-1, 2-diol ) at levels considerably higher than those deemed safe by the European Union.

* Southern Fujian: spicy and sweet tastes are often found and the selection of sauces used is elaborate.

Char siew rice can also be found in Hainanese chicken rice stalls, where customers have a choice of having their char siew rice served with plain white rice or chicken-flavoured rice, and the same choice of garlic chilli and soy sauces.