Fettuccine Boscaiola Recipes

PASTA ALLA BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Place a large pot of water on to boil for pasta.
• Place dry mushrooms in stock in a saucepan and bring to low boil to reconstitute. Reduce stock by half, then set aside.
• Heat 1 tablespoon EVOO in a large pan over medium-high heat, add pancetta, guanciale or sausage and render. When pancetta starts to brown, add the fresh mushrooms.
• Strip and finely chop rosemary. Strip and stack sage leaves and very thinly slice. Add shallots, garlic, salt, pepper and herbs to fresh mushrooms, add 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil and stir 2 to 3 minutes. Add white wine and reduce by half. Add tomatoes and passata. Remove porcini mushrooms with slotted spoon from stock and add all but the last few tablespoons of stock (where grit may have settled) to the sauce. Reduce the heat under sauce to low simmer. Chop porcini mushrooms and add them to the sauce. Add heavy cream if using and stir.
• Add pasta and salt to boiling water and cook pasta 1 minute less than package direction. Reserve 3/4 cup pasta water and drain pasta.
• Return pasta to hot pot, add some pasta water, the cheese, a little EVOO or butter and half of the sauce and toss vigorously 1 full minute to combine. Use more of the hot reserved water as necessary to loosen sauce if it becomes too thick. Serve family style or in shallow bowls topped with remaining sauce. Garnish with parsley.

FETTUCCINE BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Heat oil spray in large frying pan.
• Add bacon, onion and garlic. Cook until onion softens, stirring gently.
• Add mushrooms, cook until golden.
• Stir in cream, bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until sauce reduces and thickens slightly.
• Add cornflour water, bring to the boil again then instantly reduce heat, stirring constantly as sauce thickens.
• Stir in parsley and parmesan.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour over boiled hot pasta and mix.
• Serve sprinkled with parmesan cheese.

FETTUCCINE BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Heat the oil, and cook the onion and garlic until golden.
• Add the tomatoes and mushrooms, and bring to the boil. reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Cook the fettuccine in a large pan of water, with a splash of olive oil in it.
• Stir the parsley into the sauce, and season with salt & pepper. Toss the sauce through the pasta.
• Enjoy!