Since it’s pasta day, let’s understand, basically, what Brazilians’ favorite sauce is
You may be a carbonara person, who is not afraid of fats and adventures. Or, alternatively, a spring being, free, light and loose with its plate of pasta covered in a light sauce, based on tomato and basil leaves. Don’t have the sauce ready in the fridge? Are you too lazy to cook for more than 10 minutes? Egg tagliatelle and that’s it! The type of recipe that defines a detached person, but without losing the goodness of the moment.
Below you will find definitions of each sauce and the type of person each represents. Which pasta sauce defines you?
Bolognese sauce
The definition of Dictionary of small gastronomy says that it is a sauce made in the manner of Bologna, a city in northern Italy. In Italian the expression Bolognese style generally refers to a ragù, cooked with meat and vegetables, with abundant sauce, enriched with wine and cream. Pasta with meat is famous here, a favorite of children and adults who cannot do without the simple joys of childhood. An unmissable sauce, with a familiar flavour. If this is your favorite sauce, it is very likely that you are a person who likes stability, who avoids surprises and who likes to keep his feet firmly planted on the ground even when choosing a dish at a restaurant.
Bacon and egg
If you enjoy a nice plate of pasta carbonara, consider yourself someone who isn’t afraid of fat or adventure. It’s a strong dish, with a recipe originally based on guanciale (cured pork cheek), but which in Brazil has become popular with our good old supermarket pancetta. In Italy the fat is used to make pasta with egg yolks seasoned with black pepper and cheese. pecorino mixed with Grana Padano. Here we use parmesan and that is fine too. It would not be an exaggeration to say that those who love a sauce as quick to prepare and as delicious as carbonara have already entered this world with audacity and I want to live abundance. Do you agree?
Tagliatelle with sauce
In Italian sugo means sauce. It would therefore be redundant to say “salsa à sugo”. Just like fans of Bolognese sauce, people who take refuge in “ao sugo” are not enthusiastic about the change. His spirit of adventure is limited to choosing the type of pasta that will accompany the sauce considered perfect in the eyes of purists. A tasty accompaniment to pasta, but without ornamentation, such as green leaves or visible tomato lumps. It appears homogeneous, seasoned with the basic quintet of cuisine: oil, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Ao sauce is the definition of peace in the gastronomic sense of the term.
Egg tagliatelle
Practical and detached people who have nothing to lose are the ones who identify most with this fast food classic. Add a little fat to the pan, whatever the type: oil, butter, lard, olive oil… Quickly brown a sliced onion. Add the pasta already cooked in salted water and crack a few eggs over it. A root sauce, for those who have decided to solve dinner or lunch in a few minutes. If you have some grated cheese to put on top, great. If you don’t have it, that’s okay too. A person with a plate of egg noodles in his hand does not want war with anyone.
Garlic and oil
The definition of the Piccolo Dizionario Gastronomico defines the powerful simplicity of this pairing. Garlic and oil: Italian expression referring to “aglio eolio”, that is, a sauce made from olive oil and fried garlic, to garnish pasta. A garlic and oil person is one who chooses the middle ground between simplicity and flavor. You like precise decisions and enjoy the end result. Good garlic and good oil require refinement in the details of preparation, such as slicing the garlic as thinly as possible and using good quality olive oil and cheese to complement the dish.
Alfredo’s style
The most famous known fettuccine was created by Italian chef Alfredo di Lello, who, in the 1920s, covered the pasta with a rich sauce of butter, heavy cream, black pepper and cheese. parmeggiano gratinated. Tasting the delicacy at the Alfredo restaurant in Rome is the goal of those who see the sauce as synonymous with a sweet life. If you are an Alfredian person, your destiny could be anywhere on this planet.
Pasta with meatballs
The certainty of a happy place is in a plate of spaghetti with tender and well-seasoned meatballs. Comfort food. Safe haven. A place to forget your problems and dream of more promising days. Are you a pasta and meatballs type? It doesn’t matter if your version is made with beef, pork, chicken or soy.
Tomato and basil
A spring being, free, light and loose with his plate of pasta covered in a light sauce, based on tomato and basil leaves. Tomato and basil sauce is what you make without a recipe. Brown the garlic in a drizzle of oil, add a handful of cherry tomatoes, or others available in the refrigerator, a little salt and complete the product with fresh basil leaves. That’s right.
Source: Terra
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