How to use tomatoes, sunshine and salt to make Sicilian 'astrattu' | Pasta Grannies
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2020
- What do you do when you have loads of tomatoes? Make tomato paste! In Italian it's called estratto di pomodoro; in the Palermo area where Pina lives folk call it 'astrattu'. The ingredients you need are non irrigated tomatoes, strong sunshine and salt. Pina makes the process look elegant and easy.
If you want to try making this yourself, allow 100g of non iodised salt for every 10kg of tomatoes, which should result (Pina says) in a kilo of 'concentrato' - another word for this paste.
For the meat stew, use around 500g of pork ribs, and 500g of pork shoulder steaks, one onion, 2 heaped tablespoons of good quality tomato paste (make sure it is sweet and savoury, not sharp), black pepper, 2 litres of water.
'Siccagno' refers to the way these tomatoes are not irrigated. The actual variety of tomatoes can have also names like Ruccaloru, Pizzutello e Valledolmo.
Big thanks to the cultural association 'Ciauru ri astrattu' part of Pro Loco Aspra in their help organising this session with Pina. You can find them on Facebook. 
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What's really amazing is the fact she does this in white shorts and she stays clean
We are not Italian for nothing 😊
@@gens1sumus lol I love it
You read my mind
Im sure it's not her first time lol... We Italians can cook a 5 course meal dressed up and stay cleaned... we've been trained since birth.
I'm Italian, I can cook, but even after a fried egg my kitchen looks like if a bomb exploded in it.
This grannie is so stylish and hip.
Fantastic. It looks so good. In my hometown in Turkey, my mom and other neighbors make a very similar tomato paste. However, they do not let it lie on wooden boards, instead, they use trays. Then they let it dry on the roof under the scorching sun. The result is very salty paste can be used in different meals for coloring and taste
Hi Sertan, thank you - that's interesting. best wishes, Vicky
That's similar to how I've seen Italians do it in America. Well, like the older generation. I don't think a lot of younger people know how to make it here. I heart cooking, and I have never even attempted it LOL! My ex was Turkish too and it's surprising how many foods we share in common between Italy and Turkey ^~^
Italians have it all; history, beautiful scenery, awesome beaches, stunning architecture, elegant clothes, gorgeous women, delicious food, and of course, the best looking cars on earth.
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But they don’t have the sense of “common good” and that’s why we are what we are 😊
@Hernan Torrez overrated
But the lowest birthrate in Europe, unfortunately.
That's quite the compliment :)
And racism
Thank you again Pasta Grannies for helping conserve our best culinary traditions. As an emigrée from Italy I could not understand why people would go to restaurants to eat well. If you want to eat really well you eat at home, or, better, at grandma's.
My 5 year old want to point out she doesn't look like a granny.
hi Shane, Pina is definitely a Glamorous Grandmother 😀🌺 best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies I will let him know! Thanks for all the great videos.
Italian grandmas age with grace and dignity 🤗
I live in Italy and I can not determine the age of Italian women in age. They are all slender, well-groomed and so elegant. They look gorgeous.
@@adriaticcoast7668 Pina is stunning, total fox.
she is FABULOUS
she really is lol
It's Pina's world, she just lets us hang out in it.
Agreed!
Italian women manage to have style in all situations
We take so much for granted I’m sure I’ll never open another can of tomato paste and not think of her on that rooftop. I’m totally amazed at how neat and tidy she is. White shorts and not a hint of tomato anywhere on her. I know it would not be the same. This was so interesting, thank you for sharing the process with us. Patti
Am I the only one who is amazed she has white shorts on? Two days in a row! I would be covered in tomato paste.
That's how you know she is a pro haha
I would have looked like I murdered someone.
Okay but what we really need is a skin care routine!!! 🙌🏾😍💕 Flawless
Sicily is easily the finest place on the planet for true food lovers.
Different environments = different foods = Italy , but I agree Sicilian food is at the forefront of Italian regional cuisine
Sicily is absolutely stunning.
gens1sumus I agree, Sicily has a northern African climate and the food is heavily influenced from northern African cuisine. Almost every spice and produce In Sicilian cuisine originated from Northern Africa
Also Campania region
@@M.C.P. I shall have to check that out someday.
People worrying about flies !! Oh really? People in this region of Italy and other areas of the Mediterranean are often well over 100 years old. I suppose that with or without flies, this food should be good for your health.
Also the salt, the acidity of the tomato and it's dry and hot. We've been drying food in the sun for millenia.
It’s probably Americans worrying about their safety
In my countey Turkey, we have something similar to this called "salça". I thought it was salça when i first saw it. It is so interesting how we share similar things without knowing. Thanks for the video.
Italians Arabs Greeks and Spanish people have a very intertwined history, for example, the traditional dish of my city Venice the saor, meaning the flavour, practically an Arab dish (Venice was very influenced by Arabic and Turkish culture both in dress and architectural style, language and culture) it's made with sardines cooked with vinegar onion, pine nuts and sultanas dried grapes same can be said with sicilian cuisine.
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@Sarah Nazareth true
Me too! Love this channel 💞
Kind of obsessed myself.
You’re not alone
It’s genuine
Having canned tomatoes in the heat of August, I'd say the roof top was preferable to the kitchen/ stove. What a great treat, those jars of sauce. You'll have a bite of summer in January.
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Apparently, bugs don't exist there. If you were to do this where I live there would be 4 billion insects in it.
@@mcgee227 it's very dry and hot weather in Sicily. On the rooftop it could be somewhat windy too. I think that's why there are no bugs. Where i live it's too humid to sundry anything.
@@mcgee227 eh, a bug or two won't kill you. Adds protein.
@@mcgee227 yeah thats what I was thinking, west Australian here, I wonder if being high up on the roof helps?
Those tomatoes look INCREDIBLE. Tomatoes like that just don't exist where I live. Best you can get are "vine ripened organic" tomatoes that barely taste any different than the regular mass-produced ones.
Seriously, I'm from CA and growing up tomatoes at the store actually had a smell. They smelled delicious. Now...nothing. They're all the same size and shape and color. Boring and blah.
You know, if you want heirloom tomatoes you could grow them yourself
@@7SidesLayered and pigs could fly 🤣
I live in central California and buy my tomatoes all summer from a local farmer and I know exactly the scent you are referring to. When I bring them home and put them on my counter my whole kitchen is quickly filled with that scent
The color on those tomatoes is incredible.
We also do this in Turkey, sometimes with a different technique (we boil the puree to get rid of its juice and make it more paste like). It’s called “salça” here and it is like one of the main ingredients for almost every dish in Turkish cuisine. Really delicious.
serendipidus1 You can definitely prepare it with a slow cooker. Traditionally we make it with a wood fire by slowly boiling and always stirring but cooker works too. Salt is necessary though it helps with the shelf life, makes it more long lasting. That’s why she puts lots of salt, we do that too. I am not sure which kind of salt Italians use though but but in Turkey people use rock salt for this not sea or any other kind.
serendipidus1 I am glad you enyoyed Turkish food. We put it in jars to preserve them too just like saurkraut tbh. Salt is a must but you can use less (I am sorry for your mother btw I hope she is well and gets better day by day). Here, I found a short video for you that shows the process. I don’t think freezing would work though when you unfreeze it, it can become spoiled. This person did not put it in the jars at the end for presentation sake but you should. It will last longer that way. And you can ad some olive olive at the end so you can disconnect it from air to make it last longer.
The video: ruclips.net/video/SRyJhDRIH44/видео.html
@@selinb.8625 I love how kind and genuine the comments and discussions are under this video!
@serendipidus1 dont forget to boil the jar and its cap. It makes sure there are no bacteria etc. remains.
When i lived in Sicily at my young age everything was made at home.
The best kind of food is always made at home ..yum
Your channel is so wholesome and wonderful, warms my heart and makes me hungry!
My mother told me my Italian grandpa used to make his own tomato paste. I wonder if this is how he did it... thank you, this was excellent! 🍅
That’s alotta work....she’s really working on her tan!👍🍅
That's what the average Sicilian woman looks like on summer 😂 we like to brag about our tan
Yume Himamori ...beautiful, talented women💪🏻
In Reggio Calabria, my home town, in summer people are still use to make tomato sauce for the Winter at home. South of Italy still keep every single old tradition, those ritual food traditions keep togheter the families and are the roots from the past to our days
That's one of the best personifications I've ever heard
"The table eats it"
Concentrato fatto in casa sotto il sole non lo avevo mai visto fare, ha un fascino indescrivibile anche per me che sono italiana. Grazie 😘
In Turkey, we also make "salca" . This is so similar. Salca can made from tomatoes or paprika. Nice to see similar food cultures in mediterraan countries.
tomato paste is made everywhere on earth lol
@@karimcakall1289 the tomato paste tastes different when people use different species of tomato and ir whatever else they like to give extra flavor
@@awesomespy17 interesting..
Che bello vedere ancora fare queste meraviglie.Grazie a voi
Pina is so cool ❤️
Aaaa... la mia Sicilia bedda, tanto amata ma anche tanto amara 🥺
I love Sicilia cara
I am very lucky to find Pasta Grannies. It is such a pleasure to see recipes done with love ❤️
Pure magic. The greatest RUclips channel ever thought up. Thank you. Pina is fabulous.
thumbs up for the most wholesome channel on youtube! i absolutely love this content. it brings me back to when, as a boy, i would sit on a table close to the stove in my italian aunt's kitchen and watch her cook.
Oh Vicky to have some of her tomato paste is like gold in a jar!! The color is just gorgeous and I’m sure the taste is phenomenal!! Thank you for all your great work. 💕💕
I love love love this channel 💗 Thank you for everything.
Ms. Vicky, what a great recipe & technique for making tomato paste. This pasta granny makes me feel bad, lol, i'm 57 & she looks younger than me although i am a grandpa & the youngest of my 5 children is 30. We use tomato paste in U.S. not only with pasta sauces, etc..., but also for beef chili , beef stews, braising beef, etc... is used often in these popular dishes. God bless you, all the pastagrannies, & viewers, & please stay safe.
hi Steve, Pina is definitely in the Glamorous Grandmothers category. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies Ms. Vicky , i would say she is also.
It's just so lovely so watch this people that love and enjoy what they are doing.
This is similar to ''Salça'' in Turkey. We use that in almost every dish in here in fact when I was in Italy i searched for salça and couldn't find anything similar to it all there is was tomato paste.
The same processe in Tunisia.
Is there anything more that you add to it?
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 you cook it until it thickens before you leave it to dry in the sun
salca tomato paste demek zaten, aynisi
@@mikewillis6033 Tomato paste i domates püresi anlamında kullanıyorlar. Tomato puree demeleri gerekir ama öyle değil
I DONT WANNA SOUND DRAMATIC BUT THAT IS ALL I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE I SWEAR TO GOD ITS SO PERFEKT THANK YOU!!!
Wow the natural red color is so tempting to see🤠
Omg. Now i learn something new. Thank you so much ❤
Simply the best channel! Thank you
Not fair that we don’t get to taste that glorious concoction
That’s the real deal! Love! ❤️
che spettacolo, bravissima Pina.
My mom used to make pork in the gravy growing up. So delicious! I can just taste it.
How beautiful!! I wanna go back to Sicily to taste her paste. Thanks for sharing this precious video.
Like all great foods/meals... simplicity and time. Thank you for the sumptuous education and all of your work in producing, editing, and sharing with us.
It's our pleasure, thank you for your appreciation 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Handling slippery tomato extract while wearing white ? Impressive 😦
If this woman is a granny then I m addicted to grannies
That is some very serious cooking and It's wonderful because she enjoys working though it's long and hard work.👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
I never see something like that in my live ,I love it , Thanks a lot ,Love from London
Made my first pasta grannies recipe today and made the ribs, it was delicious 🤤👌
I'll bet that tastes like heaven😋
Mmm buonissimoo 😋 Che meraviglia! 😍☀️❤️
Brava signora!! Il sole siciliano numero uno !! Auguri!!
Love the bottle of Tabasco above the stove!
That is just fascinating! I had no idea tomato paste was made like that!
Amazing! Gorgeous woman! Those Italians are just gorgeous!
Yummm it's so delicious and salty...I remember my mum used to make it all time ...
Wow thats so kewl making things the old way for centuries....
This looks amazing !!!!
That looks so much fun! I wanna try so badly! 😍😂
Bellissimo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So cool!!
I’ve always wanted to know how they do this. I saw a picture of this exact process when I was a little kid in the back of a magazine!! Thank you
Una artista. Pure love
Wow!!! Felicidades!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏
Extraordinary!
Che meraviglia l'Italia!
All she says it's it's very nice and savory for everything
We in Sicily made tomato paste every summer. Greetings from Sicily East Coast
Amazing
Whose “ Grannie” is she; she looks so youthful…Look at her skin and that head full of beautiful hair! God Bless her!🙏🏾
Spettacolo. Mettila sul pane e vai con la mbrenna. ( Merenda)
Pina‘s slicker than I thought.
Brava!
Trùoppu beddu 🍅 💛
Beautiful....
Wow that was amazing 😊 🍅🍅🍅🍝
Yes, very interesting.
Awesome- very cool technique!
Ravishing!!!
Congratulations.!!!!!!amazing. Brave.!!!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🍅🍅🍅🍅
I'm touched 👍
Bravo
Most of the Turkish women make this tomato and pepper paste (as we call it: salça) every summer, to use them on dishes in winter. It's highly salty and has a strong flavor
Granny looks good
Im very very happy that you came here in my city😍
I love it! best wishes, Vicky
Now I have something I want to try next summer here in Texas..
🌸Super
Hi it’s Nina, my family is from Alta Villa very close to this in Sicily. This is how my family does it. So good! It’s in the blood today in Pittsburgh pa I made sauce from my garden tomatoes. Hand made lasagna and it was a feast. Grazi
Hey, I'm from Pittsburgh too! I never heard of this until today - my family is Calabrese. We also make the sauce with pork ribs for special occasions, just not with this.
Elisa Astorino my family in Sicily. Here I don’t do this but I do can my own tomato. But you know the tomato’s in Italy are so much more tasty.
Yummy 🤤 yummy how I do miss Sicily 🥺😢
Buonissimo spalmato nel pane brava 😜
You know it’s an old recipe when an outdoor wooden tabletop is an essential piece of equipment
I saw Pasta grannies and subbed
Ne güzel yaptın abla ya ellerine sağlık
The season of storing dates just started in Paledtine I collected the first batch today
Me encanta su canal, pero me gustaria el traductor y así saber que es lo que hace la Señora en este caso. Maravilloso canal. Gracias!
I never see that good job
Looks so delicious. Presently, we have an abundance of tomatoes . Will any variety of tomato, other than the Italian ones, do for making this wonderful concentrate?
No, only unirrigated tomato variety (siccagnu in sicilian means "dry"). Many others variety are too watery, and required long preconcentration phase before drying on the tables.