Bucatini al Pomodoro - Italian Recipe

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Bucatini al Pomodoro

🌍 Italian, Rome/Lazio Difficulty: ●●●○○


Rome's hollow spaghetti with a straightforward tomato sauce. The hole through each strand fills with sauce, delivering flavour from the inside. Cook the bucatini one minute less than the packet says — it finishes in the pan with the sauce.

Ingredients

  • 400g bucatini
  • 800g San Marzano tomatoes, hand-crushed
  • 1 onion, halved
  • 6 tbsp olive oil
  • Fresh basil

Method

  1. Simmering — Simmer tomatoes with halved onion in oil, 25 min.
  2. Removing — Remove onion; season.
  3. Tossing — Toss with cooked bucatini; garnish with basil.