{"id":5378,"date":"2026-03-08T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:53:44","slug":"linguine-assassina-style-with-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/it\/linguine-assassina-style-with-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"linguine assassina style with saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>No, not only Spanish occasionally fry the pasta. Italians do it too<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ingredienti per 4 persone (costo circa 1,5 E a persona)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sale<\/li><li>320 g linguine or bavette<\/li><li>0,25 g zafferano in polvere<\/li><li>Olio d\u00b4 oliva EV<\/li><li>1 pepperoncino<\/li><li>1 spicchio d'aglio<\/li><li>150 ml tomato sauce (passata)<\/li><li>basil leaves<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This very strange pasta technique comes from Italy\u00b4s south, Puglia, a place with magnificent cuisine. It has also a very strange name, assassina which means the female murderer!!!! The classical version has no saffron and more tomato than the dish I present you today, but I wanted to create a slightly different version. I love using saffron along with tomato, a quarter of gram which costs less than a euro, turns the dish from common to prime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u00b4s not a long time I know this pasta technique. I first tasted it with spaghetti but after some trials I think that wide shapes as linguine or bavette are better. Anyway, you can also use spaghetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we start with the stock. We fill a pot with a litre of filtered or mineral water and we add the tomato juice, the saffron and a pinch of salt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue with the garlic. What have we said about garlic use? That if our preparation is relatively dry and there is a possibility that the garlic can be burnt, we don\u00b4t use it sliced or minced but we just heat it in olive oil and we later discard the solid part. You imagine what we have to do today with a preparation which must be &#8220;burnt&#8221;. We crush a garlic clove and, starting from cold pan, we gently fry it with a pepperoncino (or two) and some olive oil till golden. We discard the solid part of the garlic and we add the linguine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We toss them well with the olive oil, adding some more if needed and we start frying them till pale to beige. We start adding a ladle of very hot tomato-saffron liquid every time the preparation becomes dry and we continue cooking at medium heat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the pasta is already done we raise the heat and we cook the pasta WITHOUT STIRRING IT for about 2 minutes. The linguine at the bottom of the preparation must be very crispy, lightly brown but not black, as they will be bitter and also unhealthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We put in plates and we serve garnishing with some small basil leaves.  Tough men add some pepperoncino oil too.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-scaled-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Linguine-Assassina-24-1568x1045.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not only Spanish occasionally fry the pasta. Italians do it too ingredients for 4 servings (cost about 1,5 \u20ac pp) Salt 320 g linguine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/it\/linguine-assassina-style-with-saffron\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">linguine assassina style with saffron<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[537,619,488,1200,599,472,1158,503,653,483],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pasta","tag-basil","tag-bavette","tag-garlic","tag-linguine","tag-oil","tag-pasta","tag-pepperoncino","tag-saffron","tag-salt","tag-tomato","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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