ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE 

Recipe: ingredients and timetable for the orecchiette with tomato and basil sauce (orecchiette pomodoro e basilico), Italian traditional vegetarian recipe of Apulia

The orecchiette pomodoro e basilico are a very easy and traditional recipe of the Mediterranean cuisine, with a trick for making this simple recipe a masterpiece. This sauce is suitable for each kind of pasta.

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Timetable

served	10 MINUTES+30 FOR MAKING ORECCHIETTE
cooking	5 MINUTES  (minimum)
working	5 MINUTES+ 30 FOR THE ORECCHIETTE

suggested wine: light red

Notes to the recipe: the tomato and basil sauce is the easiest sauce for seasoning each kind of semolina pasta. The orecchiette are also very easy to make, as you can see in our basic recipe. So it will be very easy to make this authentic Italian recipe! The traditional recipe requires the salted ricotta (ricotta salata). It is a seasoned cheese, that is different from ricotta, a soft fresh cheese. Should you  not find salted ricotta you can use parmesan cheese or other salted seasoned cheese.