Pasta alla Norcina

This is a creamy pasta dish from the Umbrian town of Norcia, Italy.

Ingredients: (for 2 persons)

• 300g of pasta (type rigatoni)
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 300g of brown mushroom
• 1 onion
• 2 flavourful sausages
• 2 large spoons of crème fraîche OR ricotta
• 100g Parmigiano Reggiano
• A glass of white wine
• Salt, pepper.

Optional:

• Parsley
• Espelette pepper
• Shaved black truffles (optional)

Steps

1. Finely dice the onion, garlic and mushroom
2. In a hot pan, add the onion then 3 minutes after the garlic
3. Add the sausages, without the skin. The goal is to reduce the sausage to small pieces of meat
4. Add the mushroom
5. After 5 minutes, add the white wine
6. If you have optional ingredients, it’s time to add them to the pan
7. 1 minute before the pasta is cooked (according to package directions), add the cream and some water from the pasta (~10 cl).
8. Add the pasta in the pan (time to use your kitchen spider)
9. Make sure everything is mixed together and serve
10. Add some cheese on top (+ grated truffle if you have some)