Think of some of the dishes from Italian cuisine, and you can’t help but immediately start drooling all over two of everyone's favourite food, pizza and pasta. Italian cuisine has immensely offered and treated us with some of the most delicious dishes from ancient times into being centuries ago. The very first trace of the existence of Italian cuisine goes back to time immemorial.
However, the cuisine claims that its traceable roots go as far as the 4th century BC. Italy came to be known for its alluring beauty and selection of some of the best dishes in the world after uniting in the 19h century. While most people associated Italian cuisine mostly with its pizza, pasta, lasagna and tiramisu, we are here intending to get you all excited about this savoury garlic sauce popular known as ‘Agliata.’
Agliata is an Italian garlic sauce or a condiment from Italian cuisine that has an aromatic and pungent solid smell with a mix of many intense flavours, mostly of garlic because that is prepared with a lot of crushed garlic, mixed with other ingredients like olive oil, black pepper, bread crumbs and salt.
Tracing the history:
The fine origins of agliata date back to ancient Rome, serving as a significant part of the Liguria cuisine. Agliata is a typical peasant food that is also widely eaten by people from the wealthy upper class. In a 14th century cookbook, agliata mentioned that this garlic sauce could be served with all kinds of meat, acting as one of the ideal accompaniments. In recent times, agliata has been intensively used in the cuisine of Liguria to accompany more dishes other than just meat and is regarded as a ‘Liqurian classic’.
How is agliata sauce prepared?
Aliata being a typical peasant food, which implies a dish made using accessible and inexpensive ingredients which are usually seasoned in such a way to make it more palatable. To get started, you need to soak some breadcrumbs in vinegar which is then squeezed out. At the same time, garlic cloves are whisked or beaten into a mixture. The making includes the emulsion of ingredients to prevent separation, which is done by pouring olive oil while whisking the ingredients. That’s all you need, and within no time, your sauce will be ready!