Recipe: Ingredients: (for 3 people)
250 gr. spaghetti
100 gr. cured pork cheek (Italian: guanciale)
cutted in short thick stripes
370 gr. peeled tomatoes (to chop finely )
or tomato puree, as in the video.
2 pinch of salt
2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 chili pepper fried for 30 sec. in the pan or a teaspoon
of a good homemade chili pepper oil, as in the video.
Grated pecorino cheese (Cheese obtained from sheep milk)
optional: 70 ml white wine for deglazing.
Put only 1-2 tablespoon of olive oil in the pan
and add the pork cheek. Gently fry, moving and turning the pieces.
When it is well browned, (optional: deglaze with some white wine)
take away half or all the fryied pork cheek and keep it aside.
This is made for put in the sauce last minute, still crunchy,
but is not essential!
If use chili pepper gently fry it for max 1 min. then take away.
Pay attention, In this way it’s easy to make over-spicy the dish!
(More comfortable and sure way is adding later in the sauce
a teaspoon of a readymade chili pepper oil, better if homemade.)
Now pour the tomato puree and add salt.
In the meanwhile cook spaghetti in a boiling salty water.
Turn off the fire of the sauce.
As told before, if you haven’t fried the chili pepper, now pour
around a tablespoon of chili pepper oil. At your taste.
and add around 3 teaspoon of grated pecorino cheese
put again all the fried bacon and mix
The sauce is ready, drop the drained spaghetti
inside! (Cooked “Al dente!)!
Mix well to make creamy
Ready to serve at the table!
optional: add a sprinkle of grated Pecorino cheese
Note: Amatriciana is also very appreciated in Rome,
which has become his adopted home.
For Amatriciana, in Rome are mostly used
the pasta shape Bucatini (hollow spaghetti).
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Let’s recap the essential points of this traditional dish,
if you want to get really the Amatriciana pasta:
Use cured pork cheek (No bacon, no ham, etc…)
Use pecorino cheese (for this time, his majesty The Parmesan is out)
Use only chili pepper flavour (No onion! No garlic! No pepper!)
Use simple peeled tomatoes without any add-on (No sugar! No herbs!)
If you use different ingredients, you will probably get a tasty pasta dish,
but just something reminiscent of Amatriciana.
It’s all.
Music:
Chilling Out In The Evening by MusicLFiles
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