Category: Pasta
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Pasta alla Caprese
The famous Italian Caprese salad is made of sliced ripe tomatoes and mozzarella with basil leaves. This pasta dish uses virtually the same ingredients to make a light and fresh-tasting pasta sauce and I top it with toasted breadcrumbs for added texture. Use very ripe, flavoursome tomatoes and a good quality buffalo mozzarella for best…
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Braised sausages with orzo and peppers
I got this beautiful black Chasseur casserole dish for Christmas and it’s perfect for cooking dishes that need breadth not depth. I love braised sausages and my butcher makes lots of different varieties – the Cambridge, Old English, Bury Bangers, Chorizo and wild venison; he also stocks the Suffolk Salami Company salami with fennel which…
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Pasta shells with broccoli and anchovy sauce
This recipe originally comes from the Apulia region of southern Italy. Anchovies are used in lots of savoury dishes and here they combine successfully with broccoli cooked so it still has a little bite to it, and shell-shaped or orecchiette pasta topped with Parmesan and a crisp pangratto crumb. Pangratto was used in poorer households as…
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