DISH: Rigatoni Treviso
MAIN INGREDIENTS: Pasta, Sausage, Radicchio
A month or so ago, my friend Ali had about a of us women over to her novel dwelling on the Lower East Facet. She made a gorgeous Italian meal of rigatoni with a sausage cream sauce, and after downing two big bowls and thwarting any desire I as soon as had to exit drinking, I noticed I had to construct this pasta.
The following week, in anticipation of my Valentine’s weekend excursion, I emailed Ali for the recipe and for the memoir within the motivate of it. The dish was as soon as handed down from Ali’s mother, who, after marrying an Italian man, had develop into rather smartly versed within the ways of supreme pasta. Though I’ve by no methodology had the pleasure of participating in her cooking, when I visited Ali’s home on Lengthy Island closing summer season, I spent the simpler share of my weekend pouring by her mother’s series of Connoisseur and Meals & Wine magazines, lining the walls floor to ceiling, and courting motivate to 1942. It didn’t shock me that this girl had given starting up to every my novel favourite pasta dish and the friend who made it for me.
After I went over the ingredient list, I was as soon as very a lot surprised to be taught about radicchio was as soon as the opposite main component of the mix (the first was as soon as sausage). Its infrequently bitter flavor had melted into the sauce, and the leaves had develop into unrecognizable after the simmering. Ali’s notes specified to rep the prolonged radicchio versus the spherical version. I paused for a second and racked my mind. I true couldn’t describe this vegetable.
With my head zigzag low (if there had been anybody gazing), I went on wikipedia to discover up the forms of radicchio. Sure ample, the prolonged version, resembling a crimson leafy endive, got here on the conceal. Radicchio Treviso because it turned out is most recurrently negate in Italian cooking, and is a bit more difficult to search out in American supermarkets, even supposing I did within the kill salvage it. Probably I had took express upon this vegetable at the markets in Rome, the build Ali and I studied out of the country together. Likelihood is, as my lack of knowledge would ponder, I was as soon as too busy snatching up cute microscopic eggplants and shopping pizza by the pound to peep the heads of radicchio.
After I got spherical to increasing my novel favourite pasta it was as soon as spectacular as soon as extra, even supposing I mediate Ali’s version will aloof be the extra particular of the two up to now as my thoughts and grace buds are concerned. But the most attention-grabbing share relating to the dish was as soon as discovering a brand novel veggie within the private share, and it could possibly well just true be making an look in Italian dishes I’ll construct within the discontinuance to future.
From my kitchen, the build I’m mixing my novel favourite pasta with my novel favourite vegetable, to yours,
Phoebe, THE QUARTER-LIFE COOK
**Recipe**
Rigatoni Treviso con Panna, e Salsiccia
Makes 4 servings
I couldn’t salvage breakfast sausage at the meat counter, true sweet Italian. Ali specified that the sausage could well just aloof no longer private fennel seeds since they private such a determined flavor. Sadly, the sausage I worn was as soon as sweet Italian, and it did private fennel seeds. Oops. I aloof belief this version tasted extra special. One recommendation the (Italian) butcher gave me: add 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar to the sausage because it’s browning. This could well just reduction alter the flavors (breakfast sausage in actuality tends to be sweeter) and reduction the meat caramelize.
Ingredients
1 tiny onion, diced
1lb raw breakfast sausage (or sweet Italian,* true add sugar), eradicated from casing
1 1/2 tsp sugar* (no longer obligatory, search imprint above)
2 tiny heads of radicchio di treviso (prolonged, no longer spherical), halved and cut into 1-scuttle strips
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup grated parmiggiano cheese
1lb rigatoni
Bring a gigantic pot of salted water to boil and cook dinner the pasta in response to kit instructions till true fearful of al dente. Reserve 1/4 cup of cooking liquid.
In a gigantic skillet, saute the onion over medium-high heat in 1 tablespoon of olive oil till at ease and starting up to brown, about 8 minutes.
Add the sausage to a meals processor and pulse till finely chopped.
NOTE: I skipped this step since I don’t private a meals processor. It’s gorgeous to true add the sausage to the pan and break it up with a spatula into very gorgeous bits because it browns. Appropriate construct positive there are no big chunks.
Push the onions to the perimeters of the pan and add the sausage. Continue to cook dinner over high heat, breaking apart the objects alongside with your spatula, till fully browned and starting up to caramelize. If you’re the utilization of sweet Italian, add the sugar with the meat.
Turn the warmth motivate down to medium, and add the radicchio to the pan. Saute gently till the leaves are very wilted and lowered in dimension by half.
NOTE: try now to no longer make use of too a lot of the bottom of the radicchio which has no crimson leaves, and is simplest stalk/core. If you enact, carve it a bit finer, as this could well just snatch longer to develop into at ease.
Turn the warmth down to low and add the cream. Saute for a pair of minutes till integrated. Add the cheese add toss to combine. Add the drained pasta to the pot and continue to cook dinner for a minute or so. If the sauce is simply too thick, add rather of the cooking water.
Wait on without prolong with some additional grated cheese and some chopped parsley, as soon as you’ve got gotten it accessible.
Bon Appetito!
