Orecchiette pasta with tomato and cacioricotta cheese

There is nothing more delicious and irresistible than a lovely pasta dish based on tomato sauce, especially if it is made as it should and in perfect Puglian style! This means homemade pasta, a tomato sauce made at home or if not organically produced, only Puglian cacioricotta cheese, and, if possible, some basil leaves from your own balcony!

Gently fry a little spring onion in a extra virgin olive oil in a pan, add the tomato passata, a little basil and salt, and then continue cooking everything together. Boil the pasta in salted water. Drain and then combine with the sauce in the frying pan. Finish with a good drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil and a generous grating of cacioricotta cheese.