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Tomato sauce with Ricotta and D.O.P. Pecorino Romano cheese

Code: CSC6052

Weight: 290 g (10.23 oz)

Tasty tomato sauce with Ricotta and Pecorino cheese and 100% italian tomatoes. Ideal to season pasta dishes.

This product is available also in 1000g / 35.27 oz and 540g / 19 oz formats.

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Gluten free
Ready to eat

How to use

The sauce is ready to pour directly over freshly drained pasta. It can be heated over low heat or in the microwave, after opening the jar and removing the capsule. We recommend finishing cooking the pasta by sautéing it in the pan with the sauce for a minute. Also try it on bread or as a sauce for stew recipes, also great as a base for pizza and lasagna.

Curiosity

Tomato sauce prepared with Italian tomatoes only and with 2 typical Italian cheeses, ricotta and pecorino. Ricotta is a cheese produced from the times of the Egyptians and the Sumerians. Then it was used a lot even in the Greek and Roman times until the Middle Ages, when it seems to temporarily disappear. It will be San Francesco to reintroduce it, according to Christian myths, at the end of the XII century, teaching its production to the shepherds. Pecorino Romano is a cheese that has millennial origins. Already in 48 BC, Virgil, describing its nutritional properties. Virgil suggestes that every Roman soldier had to consume 27 grams per day. Thanks to its nutritional properties and easy to tansport and storage, its transformation technique spread over the centuries in Tuscany and Sardinia.