Pizzicotti pasta, in English Pinch pasta is the dish I always order at il Casale restaurant in Paciano.

To make pizzicotti you only need:

• bread dough (water, flour, yeast)

• A pinch of salt

• Organic tomato jar

• Pancetta, smoked bacon

• Gaeta black olives, if you like

• Parsley, if you like

• Pecorino cheese

• chilly peppers

• 1 onion

• extra virgin olive oil

  Directions:

• Let the bread dough rise for 4 hours.

• Boil water with salt in a pasta pot.

• To make the sauce, cook the onion with olive oil and bacon and chili pepper, with low flame for 10 minutes. Add the tomato sauce and cook for 30 minutes. Add a pinch of salt.

• When the sauce is cooked and the pasta water is boiling. Take a pinch of the bread dough and lunch it in the pasta water. One after the other very quickly. Cook for 5-10 minutes.

• To serve: add parsley and pecorino cheese.