Italiano
We all know how to cook spaghetti, right?
You put the water in the pan and start heating it and…
You know what? Not all recipes start like this…
There is one exception.
With a slightly creepy name: Spaghetti all’assassina.
Yes, as you imagine, it translates as “Assassin’s spaghetti”. But we’ll come back to the name later.
I was saying, these spaghetti are not cooked in salted water, but directly on a pan.
Cooked like a risotto, patiently and gradually adding a concentrated tomato puree diluted with water and sauce, garlic and a generous dose of spicy chilli pepper.
The result? Well, you have to try it.
Spicy. And with a truly “singular” texture, hard to describe with words.
The dish was created by chef Enzo Francavilla in 1967, in his restaurant (still in business) Al Sorso Preferito, in Bari, a city in Southern Italy.
The story goes that one day two sales agents from the North stopped by at Mr. Francavilla’s restaurant.
When the waiter asked what they wanted to eat, they replied “It is said that here in the South the cuisine is particularly flavoury. Let’s see what you can do…”.
Enzo took up the challenge and prepared two portions of that dish, which still didn’t have a name.
The two gentlemen appreciated it a lot.
Joking that they were so spicy, one of them told the chef “You’re an assassin!“.
Hence the name they still bear today.
Do you want to try making them?
There are many recipes and video tutorials on YouTube, also in English.
I have to warn you tho: it’s not easy at all, and it may take you several tries!
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