Pasta alla’Amatriciana

@Padrepablo tweeted about my rendition of Amatriciana yesterday, so I thought I’d share the recipe here.

We had this pasta several places around Italy.  We like it because it was simple and light for a pasta dish.  I prefer using bucatini, but since regular marts don’t carry the hollow noodles, we usually make it with spaghetti or farfalle (bowtie).

Ingredients

• Choice pasta
• 5 slices pancetta (or 5 strips bacon), chopped
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1 tsp. red pepper flakes

And really simple directions:

1. Cook pasta in lightly salted water.
2. Cook bacon, drain.
3. In a sauce pan, sautée onion in olive oil
4. Add tomatoes, red pepper flake, bacon.  Reduce sauce until it coats a wooden spoon.
5. Toss with pasta.  Garnish with shaved Parmesan.

Simple. Quick. And we always have these ingredients on hands.