Italian uncooked sauces

pasta with salsa a crudo (uncooked sauce) is hot pasta tossed quickly with a cold, uncooked sauce and served immediately, while still warm.

Most dressings of this kind cannot be prepeared and used stright away, but rather need to rest for fifteen minutes to an hour, to allow all the ingredients to macerate and infuse their flavours. those that are used straight away will bennefit from a squeeze of lemon juice.

These preparation must not be confused with cold pasta salads. When you make a pasta salad, the pasta is cooked al dente, then drained and refreshed under cold water to stop the cooking process. the pasta is dressed when it is cold. Personally i am not a fan of pasta salads – I see no point in running a beatiful salad with cold pasta

But when you make pasta with salsa a crudo it is only the sauce that is cold the pasta must be hot and cooked al dente, for these sauces i surgest you to use Ligurain olive oil for its beatifully delicate, fruity flavour.

A crudo sauces are excellent for hot summer days and nights – for full enjoyment, i urge you to act quickly and eat the pasta immediately, while it is still warm.