Killer spaghetti (spaghetti all’assassina)

Spaghetti all'assassina, which translates into "killer spaghetti", is one of the
most iconic pasta recipes from Bari, the main city in Puglia. Created as a way
to re-cycle the sauce left-overs, it is now a lot more than a simple cooking
classic!

Servings: 4 people

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Cook Time
35 minutes

Sauce thickening
15 minutes

Total Time
50 minutes

Course:

Primo

Cuisine:

Italian Pugliese Bari

Keywords:

spicy Tasty Regional traditional Poor

Instructions

1 Prepare the 2 pots and the pan. Pour the tomato sauce into one of the pots and
start thickening the sauce at low heat. It will take about 15 minutes until the
sauce is ready for the recipe.
2 In the other pot, pour 2 ladles of water and make it boil. When it's hot, add 2
ladles of the thick tomato sauce and mix them. Just make sure to save 2-3 ladles
of thick sauce. You are making a sort of "tomato sauce broth" that you will use
to cook the pasta, with a technique similar to the one used to cook a risotto.
And similarly to what you do with risotto, while you prepare the broth toast the
spaghetti in the pan, at medium-high heat.
3 Add the EVO oil, the garlic cloves and the red hot chili pepper: enjoy the smell
and the music for few second, then…
4 … pour two ladles of hot tomato sauce broth. What a view! Now at medium heat,
enjoy the slow cooking of the spaghetti in this delicious broth.
5 When the spaghetti are not hard anymore, remove the garlic and the red hot chili
pepper. Continue cooking, adding tomato broth or thick sauce, alternately.
6 When the spaghetti are ready, add in the centre of the pan 1 ladle of thick
tomato sauce, mix and switch the heat to the maximum. Enjoy the view of the
smoke rising for 1 minute to 2, accordingly to how crunchy you want the result.
In my experience and with my toolset, 1.5 minute is perfect. Now your first
spaghetti all'assassina are ready. The result is a pasta with amazing taste,
normal consistency apart from the crunchy ones, truely delicious. Enjoy!

Killer spaghetti (spaghetti all’assassina)

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