Boscaiola is a classic Italian pasta with mushrooms
ingredienti per 4 porzioni (costo circa 4 € ap)
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- 500 g fresh pasta with eggs
- 200 g yellow foot mushrooms
- 60 g pancetta
- Olio di semi di girasole EV
- 1 cipolla media
- 60 g di burro
- Rosemary, cut in very tiny pieces
Yesterday, during my everyday walk on the hills, I saw a plant of wild rosemary with very beautiful flowers. I cut some and I went to my mushroom seller. There I found yellow foot mushrooms, which are excellent for pasta. Right to home to prepare a boscaiola.
Boscaiola, which means the forester´s one, is a pasta sauce made with mushrooms. Some cooks add tomato sauce, some other add cream (panna), some other use salsiccia (sausage). Usually I prepare this pasta dish without tomato and with pancetta instead of sausage. I never use cream, I think that gives to the dishes a muddy texture, I prefer “Saint Butter” instead of it. Parmigiano cheese is not obligatory for this sauce. This is today´s pasta dish.
Iniziamo.
First of all we prepare 500 grams fresh pasta with eggs, as we already have learnt, or as you can see qui. We cut it to tagliatelle with a knife or the machine.
In a cold pan we add the pancetta, cut in thin slices. We bring to a gentle heat aiming to extract fat from the pancetta. When done we remove the solid parts, we cut them in pieces and we set them aside.
In the same pan we soften the onion. We first cut it in dice and we then gently fry it, adding some water, if required. We want to produce “a cream”, where the onions will be very very soft. We add some salt.
We clean the mushrooms very well and we discard their dirty bottoms. We preheat very well a wok with a little bit of EV sunflower oil and we sauté them in two batches for about 3-4 minutes till tender. To achieve this result we have to continuously move the sauté pan in order to create an homogeneous cooking. We salt them at the very last moment of sautéing. We keep warm.
Meanwhile we bring to boil a pot with salted water and we add the tagliatelle.
When the pasta is almost ready we strain it and we add it in the pan along with the onion, the pancetta, the butter and the mushrooms to mantecare, adding some boiling water from the pot, till we create a creamy sauce.
We put in plates adding the minced rosemary and we serve.
