Spaghetti all'assassina
8 May 2021 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI had some cheap spaghetti and a jar of passata, so I tried spaghetti all'assassina, which is basically spaghetti cooked like risotto and allowed to stick on the bottom. (I simply tipped the passata into the oil in the hot pan to boil furiously and then kept adding the rinsings out of the bottle, rather than making up a separate 'broth' of tomato puree and water to top it up with; the passata is already pretty concentrated, a lot more so than any sauce I'd normally make.)
It... worked, I suppose. It's a bit messy -- I was wiping spatters of tomato oil off everything everywhere afterwards -- and I didn't see any signs of my spaghetti getting toasted by the hot pan or going 'glossy' where it stuck to the bottom; it was basically just one-pot spaghetti without the requirement to gauge your liquid quantities in advance, and minus the extra vegetable content.
It... worked, I suppose. It's a bit messy -- I was wiping spatters of tomato oil off everything everywhere afterwards -- and I didn't see any signs of my spaghetti getting toasted by the hot pan or going 'glossy' where it stuck to the bottom; it was basically just one-pot spaghetti without the requirement to gauge your liquid quantities in advance, and minus the extra vegetable content.
