La salsa amatriciana es una de esas salsas de pocos ingredientes, pero con un fuerte sabor. La clave de la salsa está en la albahaca, llamada también basílico, hierba real o hierba de los reyes. Para algunas religiones es una planta sagrada, utilizada en tanto en rituales como en hechizos.
La primera vez que probé una salsa con albahaca ha sido hace unos años en Roma. La salsa era muy simple: sólo tomate, albahaca y sal, pero notar tanto el sabor de albahaca en ese plato me ha convencido de que es una combinación muy compacta. La salsa amatriciana se basa en la combinación de tomate y albahaca. La mozzarella di bufala es una de las preferidas de los italianos: ligera y suave, un acompañamiento ideal para este plato caliente y refrescante al mismo tiempo. Una salsa sencilla, pero muy, muy agradable.
Tiempo de elaboración: 25-30 minutos
Dificultad: baja
Raciones: 2 personas
Ingredientes
- 350 gr tallarines
- 300 ml tomate frito
- 1 mozzarella de búfalo
- 3 hojas de albahaca –o una cuchara de salsa pesto–
- 150 gr bacon en tiras
- 1/2 cebolla cortada
- Aceite de oliva, sal
- Parmesano en polvo y orégano seco, para decorar
Elaboración paso a paso
- Ponemos la pasta a hervir.
- Cortamos la cebolla y el bacon –en caso de no comprarlo directamente en tiras–.
- Salteamos el bacon con la cebolla.
- En cuanto estén fritos, añadimos el tomate.
- Cortamos el queso de búfala en dados.
- Añadimos el queso a la sarten.
- Añadimos la albahaca cortada y una cucharita de sal –en vez de albahaca se puede usar una cuchara de salsa pesto, ya que es una salsa muy rica con mucho sabor a albahaca–.
- Mezclamos de vez en cuando hasta que se funda todo el queso en la salsa. Si no se mezcla el queso se pegará a la sartén.
- En cuanto la pasta esté hervida, la escurrimos y la añadimos a la salsa.
Mezclamos la pasta en la salsa y lo dejamos todo a hervir unos 3 minutos para que la salsa se impregne en la pasta.
<style type='text/css'> #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 16%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ </style> <div data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":32,"permalink":"https:\/\/placeralplato.com\/salsas\/salsa-amatriciana","likes_blog_id":52031201}' id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-5505 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Pasta a hervir" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5507" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5507" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana.jpg" data-orig-size="800,530" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393346835","copyright":"","focal_length":"21.25","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":""}" data-image-title="Pasta a hervir" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-400x265.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-700x463.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5507'> 1. Ponemos los tallarines a hervir </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-2'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Cebolla cortada" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5508" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5508" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2.jpg" data-orig-size="800,458" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393346863","copyright":"","focal_length":"21.25","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.022222222222222","title":""}" data-image-title="Cebolla cortada" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-400x229.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-2-700x400.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5508'> 2. Cortamos la cebolla </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-3'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Bacon y cebolla en una sarten" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5509" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5509" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3.jpg" data-orig-size="800,530" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393346924","copyright":"","focal_length":"21.25","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":""}" data-image-title="Bacon" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-400x265.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-3-700x463.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5509'> 3. Salteamos el bacon con la cebolla </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-6'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tomate con bacon" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5510" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5510" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6.jpg" data-orig-size="800,520" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347206","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":""}" data-image-title="Tomate con bacon" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-400x260.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-6-700x455.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5510'> 4. Añadimos el tomate frito </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-4'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Mozzarella de búfala" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5506" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5506" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4.jpg" data-orig-size="762,481" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Mozzarella de búfala " data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-400x252.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-4-700x441.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5506'> 5. Cortamos la mozzarella de búfala </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-8'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tomate, queso y albahaca" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5511" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5511" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8.jpg" data-orig-size="800,520" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347285","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.022222222222222","title":""}" data-image-title="Tomate, queso y albahaca" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-400x260.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-8-700x455.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5511'> 6. Añadimos el queso y la albahaca </dd></dl><br style="clear: both" /><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-9'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Salsa amatriciana" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5512" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5512" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9.jpg" data-orig-size="800,530" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347471","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.1","title":""}" data-image-title=" Aspecto final de la salsa" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-400x265.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-9-700x463.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5512'> 7. Aspecto final de la salsa amatriciana </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-10'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tallarines escurridos" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5513" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5513" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10.jpg" data-orig-size="800,530" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347542","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.022222222222222","title":""}" data-image-title="Tallarines" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-400x265.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-10-700x463.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5513'> 8. Escurrimos los tallarines </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-11'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tallarines amatriciana" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5514" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5514" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11.jpg" data-orig-size="800,508" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347561","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":""}" data-image-title="Tallarines amatriciana" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-400x254.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-11-700x444.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5514'> 9. Juntamos los tallarines con la salsa </dd></dl><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a href='https://placeralplato.com/salsas/salsa-amatriciana/attachment/matriciana-12'><img width="100" height="100" src="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tallarines amatriciana" aria-describedby="gallery-2-5515" srcset="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-100x100.jpg 100w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-50x50.jpg 50w, https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-118x118.jpg 118w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-attachment-id="5515" data-orig-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12.jpg" data-orig-size="800,514" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"PENTAX K-50","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1393347629","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":""}" data-image-title="Tallarines amatriciana" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-400x257.jpg" data-large-file="https://placeralplato.com/files/2014/02/matriciana-12-700x449.jpg" /></a> </dt> <dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-5515'> 10. Especto final tallarines amatriciana </dd></dl> <br style='clear: both' /> </div>
A la mesa
No hay mejor acompañamiento para la pasta que el queso parmesano, tanto para conseguir una buena decoración como por su sabor. Siendo la salsa amatriciana una salsa refrescante, le he añadido orégano por encima; así tiene incluso más aspecto y sabor mediterráneo.
Buon appetito!
