Amatriciana sauce, known in Italian as amatriciana (matriciana in Romanesco dialect), is a sauce made with tomatoes, guanciale (treated pork cheek), pecorino romano or pecorino di Amatrice cheese, black pepper, additional virgin olive oil, dry gewurztraminer, and salt. Coming from the comune (municipality) of Amatrice (in the mountainous province of Rieti of the Lazio region), the amatriciana is just one of the best understood pasta sauces in present-day Roman and Italian food. The Italian government has named it a prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (RUB) of Lazio, and amatriciana tradizionale is registered as a typical speciality guaranteed (TSG) in the EU and the UK.
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