Pasta 1

How to cook a very easy and typical Italian dish: pasta with tomato sauce.
In general the secret to cook real Italian food is to have the right ingredients and not use too many of them.
The first important point is a true Italian oil (OLIO DI OLIVA EXTRAVERGINE). To buy it out of Italy can be really expensive, but one really need it to cook almost everything and will be make the real difference. Another key ingredient is "grana padano" that we need very often to realize quick dishes and must be properly choose (old at least 24 months).
Also the other ingredients have to be selected carefully among those coming from Italy (always read the origin). For instance, it was not easy for me to find a right tomato sauce in Germany. Most of the local and also the italian ones that you can find here are too sweet. Finally, trying several different types, I found a proper one.
Today we need first to prepare the sauce sauteing a little bit of small slices of onions in the right oil. Then we have to add the right tomato sauce and some salt. The sauce must be cooked very slowly for about 10 minutes, mixing it quite often. In the meantime put the favorite pasta in boiling salted water and cook for the proper time. When it is ready, add the sauce and the grated "grana padano". If you want, you can add some basilic, but NOTHING else! The entire process take 15 minutes. Buon appetito.