Name: Breadcrumbs and Sugar
Yield: Serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a main
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 75 g butter (or 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil); 50 g proper breadcrumbs; 200 g spaghetti; 50 g caster sugar; 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a starter

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Geometry of Pasta

By Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy

Published 2010

About

My grandmother, Agnes, used to tell me how much she loved this dish as a kid in Hungary. I can’t quite make up my mind whether it is too weird to love, or just weird enough. It would make a good breakfast…

Ingredients

200 g spaghetti
50 g proper breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon

Starter
Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Rub the oil into the breadcrumbs, then bake in a moderate oven until a rich golden brown. Mix with half the sugar. While your pasta cooks, take 4 tablespoons of its water and boil separately with the remaining sugar and the butter until emulsified and the texture of cream. Toss the drained pasta in this sauce and serve with the sweet breadcrumbs on top. Olive oil, instead of butter, adds a more

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