If you’re a sauce lover who frequents your local Olive Garden, you already know that sauce options abound. Most menu items already have a specific sauce and if you want, you can request swapping one for another. Alfredo ravioli? Why not? The “Make Your Own” pasta dish gives you a choice between marinara, five-cheese marinara, meat, and creamy mushroom. In the mood for something indulgent and rich? Ask for 50/50 of the creamy mushroom and five-cheese marinara. Want meat, cheese, and tomatoes all together? Try half meat sauce and half five-cheese marinara. Alfredo sauce isn’t technically one of the sauce options for the “Make Your Own” pasta but some guests swear that a half-marinara, half-Alfredo dish is possible and a delicious hack that’s just as good the next day.
Sauce fans are also likely aware that four of the chain’s sauces are available to order by the pint: the classic marinara, the five-cheese marinara, the alfredo, and the meat sauce. It’s a good option for making easy weeknight dinners that just require you to add your own pasta or if you just really like your leftovers to be swimming in sauce. Buy two or three of your favorite sauces and you can have combo tomato-Alfredo pasta or breadstick dipping sauce for the rest of the week.
