105. Spaghetti coi Piselli

Spaghetti with Peas

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

This is a family dish, but good and tasty if prepared carefully. Besides, pasta dishes of this sort are useful alternatives to that eternal and often stringy and tasteless stew.

Ingredients

  • 500 grams (about 1 pound) of spaghetti
  • 500 grams (about 1

Method

Make a battuto with the bacon, one new onion, one fresh garlic clove, some celery and parsley. Sauté in olive oil and when it starts to brown add the peas together with a few stems of chopped dill, if you can find some. Season with salt and pepper, and cook.

With your hands break the spaghetti into pieces shorter than half a finger, then cook them in salted water, drain well, mix with t