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| Course | Primo (Italian course) |
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| Place of origin | Italy |
| Main ingredients | Pasta,tomatoes,extra virgin olive oil,garlic,basil |
Pasta al pomodoro (Italian:[ˈpastaalpomoˈdɔːro]) is apasta dish typically prepared with freshtomatoes,extra virgin olive oil, garlic, basil, and salt. It is intended to be a quick and light dish, rather than a dish in a heavy sauce.
Pomodoro means 'tomato' inItalian.[1] More specifically,pomodoro is auniverbation ofpomo ('apple') +d ('of') +oro ('gold'),[2] possibly because the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading fromSpain toItaly andNorth Africa were yellow, with the earliest attestation (of the archaic plural formpomi d'oro) going back toPietro Andrea Mattioli (1544).
A red strain was later developed in Africa, which came to be known in Italy aspomo dei morì ('apple of theMoors').[3]
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