Name: Bucatini All’amatriciana (Bucatini with Amatriciana Sauce)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: sea salt and ground black pepper; ½-2 dried red chillies, seeded and finely chopped; 400 g/14 oz bucatini or other chunky dried durum-wheat pasta; 400 g/14 oz can chopped tomatoes; 75 g/3 oz/1 cup freshly grated pecorino or Parmesan cheese; 45 ml/3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 onion, finely chopped; 3 garlic cloves, chopped; 300 g/11 oz pancetta, cubed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

About

From the little town of Amatrice, in Lazio, comes this classic sauce. It has many fans, and is one of those recipes that cause a great deal of argument and discussion among aficionados: Should the bacon be pancetta or guanciale? Is it right to use both onion and garlic? Should it not be one or the other? How much chilli, and what kind of chilli, makes this sauce just right? There are no clear answers to these questions, and the sauce remains one of those that can be tinkered with until it i