Schüttelbrot tagliatelle with chanterelle mushrooms and speck.
This creamy mushroom and speck pasta recipe comes from Trentino-Alto Adige in the Italian Dolomites. Fresh wild mushrooms are best but you can also use other types of mushrooms too!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 3 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 400 g Tagliatelle or other pasta
- 1 small onion (peeled and finely chopped)
- 1 garlic clove (peeled and finely chopped)
- 180 g speck or pancetta (diced)
- 200 ml fresh or cooking cream
- 250 chanterelle mushrooms (cleaned and cut into pieces)
- 1/2 glass white wine
- 1 handful fresh parsley (chopped)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 20 g butter
- salt (for pasta and to taste)
- ground black pepper (to taste)
- 50 g Parmesan cheese (grated)
Instructions
- 1
Put a pan of water on to boil for the pasta. Add salt when it starts to boil.
- 2
Over a medium heat, sautè the onion and garlic in a saucepan with the butter and a little olive oil.
- 3
When the onions are cooked through, add the mushrooms.
- 4
Let the liquid from the mushrooms evaporate a little bit and then add the white wine and continue to simmer for a couple minutes.
- 5
Add salt and pepper to taste.
- 6
Put half the diced speck into a food processor and pulse until it looks more like minced meat.
- 7
Add this speck to the mushrooms, mix well and cook everything together for 10 minutes.
- 8
Dry fry the rest of the diced speck in another frying pan. When it starts to get golden and crispy add it to the mushroom sauce.
- 9
Stir the cream into the sauce, mix everything well and lower the heat so it just simmers for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- 10
While waiting for the sauce to cook, cook the pasta 1 minute less than the suggested cooking time in the packet.
- 11
When the pasta is cooked, drain it but save a cup of the pasta cooking water.
- 12
Add the cooked pasta to the pan with the sauce and toss for about 2 minutes, mixing well.
- 13
If the sauce is too thick, add some of the water used for cooking the pasta.
- 14
Sprinkle with the parsley and Parmesan before serving.