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How to Make BUCATINI allAMATRICIANA Like a Roman

Amatriciana is cooked with the amazing flavors of guanciale, tomato sauce, pecorino romano cheese, and the bucatini pasta is...

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Bucatini Pasta with Garlic Butter Sauce

FAQ

In Italian cuisine, bucatini is served with buttery sauces, guanciale, vegetables, cheese, eggs, and anchovies or sardines. One of the most common sauces to serve with bucatini is the amatriciana sauce, bucatini all'amatriciana. It is traditionally made with guanciale, a type of cured meat taken from the pork jowl.
The key differences between the two are the size and the hole in the center. Bucatini is thicker than spaghetti, making room for that hollow center running throughout. While the two pastas are used in similar dishes, bucatini's center hole gives it a more interesting texture and makes it better at sopping up sauces.
However, the origin of the hole most probably lies in the original method of making this type of pasta by hand with a rush or a thin rod known as a ferretto. A small piece of pasta dough was rolled and stretched around the ferretto which was then withdrawn, leaving a hole inside the length of the piece of pasta.
The name bucatini comes from Italian: buco, meaning “hole”, while bucato means “pierced”. The hollow center in bucatini allows it to be fully coated and filled with sauce, letting bold, flavorful sauces shine.
And that hollow center is what makes bucatini so fantastic. Where spaghetti or linguine get coated with sauce, bucatini gets coated and filled with sauce. It's the ultimate delivery vehicle for velvety pasta sauces like cacio e pepe or carbonara.