Sunday, May 11, 2008

Ziti with tomatoes sauce






It is a classic sunday pasta in Naples, Italy. You can make a ragu` sauce or you can make an easier and fresh sauce for the summer time.
All you need is a can of tomatoes, some fresh basil, garlic, onions and olive oil. And of course pasta. In this case a special kind of pasta that it is typical of a suthern italian region, Campania. The region where I come from. The same region where pizza and mozzarella come from, just so you understand...

Preparation time: 30 min

1) Put the water to boil for the pasta. Add 2 teaspoons of salt.

2) Start making teh red sauce. Saute` the onions in a pot with some olive oil. Before the brown, add the red sauce, some basil and a clove of garlic. Cover the pot and let it cook at low heat for about 30 min.

3) We use ziti pasta. You need to break them with you hands. It is really a special pasta and it will taste fantastically with the sauce that goes inside them.

4)Drain the pasta and add some sauce to it stirring. Save some sauce for the top

5) Dress with parmesan cheese and fresh basil.

Well...Buon Appetito...!

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