Spaghetti all’Assassina: From Bari, the original recipe

Spaghetti all’Assassina: From Bari, the original recipe

INGREDIENTS

  • 300 g of spaghetti;
  • 400 g of tomato puree;
  • 100 g of tomato paste;
  • 1 Lt of water;
  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • 100 ml of extra virgin olive oil;
  • 2 chilli peppers (really hot);
  • Salt to taste

STEP

  • Let’s start by preparing the tomato broth;
  • Take a saucepan, pour in the water, then the tomato puree, add salt and bring to the boil;
  • In the iron pan put the chopped fresh chillies and garlic.;
  • Use one whole clove and the other chopped;
  • Pour oil and place on the heat;
  • When the garlic has turned golden (not burnt, mind you), remove the largest clove and raise the heat;
  • After that, we pour the 100 g of tomato paste that we put aside into the pan;
  • Don’t worry if it splashes, it’s normal;
  • Mix well;
  • Let’s cook for a couple of minutes;
  • At this point we place the spaghetti (categorically raw) in the pan with the tomato puree;
  • Let’s fry and burn, we’re not in a hurry, the spaghetti must stick to the pan;
  • When our pasta in contact with the pan is well toasted, we turn it carefully so as to obtain uniform toasting;
  • Let’s help ourselves with a spatula so as not to break the spaghetti in this delicate operation;
  • At this point we begin to cook our spaghetti;
  • Pour two ladles of tomato puree broth;
  • Be careful to pour the broth on the sides of the pan and not directly onto the spaghetti, as it is preferable not to drown the pasta;
  • Before turning the spaghetti, we wait for the broth to dry out a little and let the pasta toast well;
  • This procedure is very important and requires a lot of calm, let’s not rush to turn the pasta which instead must suffer in this type of cooking, this is why they are called spaghetti all’Assassina;
  • We repeat the operation of bringing up the most burnt spaghetti, adding more tomato liquid;
  • Each addition must correspond to the time needed to let the preparation sizzle and then repeat by wetting the pasta with the tomato broth;
  • The spaghetti will start to bend from being stiff;
  • The whole process will take about 10 minutes;
  • In the last few minutes we let it fry well so as to make the spaghetti a little crunchy;
  • Turn off, plate and serve… FABULOUS!

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