Spaghettini col Sugo di Erbe e Pomodoro Crudo

Name: Spaghettini col Sugo di Erbe e Pomodoro Crudo (Thin Spaghetti with Herbs and Raw Tomato)
Yield: For 4 to 6 Persons
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil; 1½ pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes; 1 pound spaghettini; ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil; Salt; Black pepper in a grinder; 3 tablespoons chopped parsley; 3 teaspoons fresh rosemary chopped fine; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage, or 3 to 4 dried leaves, crumbled

Thin Spaghetti with Herbs and Raw Tomato

Preparation info

For
4 to 6
Persons

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Marcella's Italian Kitchen

By Marcella Hazan

Published 1986

About

A Popular, nostalgic image of Italian cooking is that of a portly, grandmotherly woman stirring a simmering sauce for hours. Fortunately, it is. only a fantasy. Of the thousands of pasta sauces, only a few take more than 15 to 20 minutes. This sauce for maccheroncini doesn’t take even 1 minute.

The secret of its sprightly, fragrant flavor is that the herbs and tomatoes of which it is composed are virtually raw. They never see the inside of a saucepan but go directly into the