Fusilli With Porcini Puttanesca Sauce Recipes

PASTA PUTTANESCA

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add oil, garlic, anchovies, and crushed pepper. Saute mixture until anchovies melt into oil and completely dissolve and garlic is tender, about 3 minutes: your kitchen never smelled so good! Add olives, capers, tomatoes, black pepper, and parsley. Bring sauce to a bubble, reduce heat, and simmer 8 to 10 minutes.
• Toss sauce with cooked pasta. Pass bread and cheese at the table and serve with Bitter Greens Salad.
• Combine greens in a salad bowl. Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon over the bowl. Drizzle salad liberally with extra virgin olive oil. Toss salad and season salad with salt and pepper. Arrange salad on plates. Garnish plates with black olives, if using.

FUSILLI WITH PORCINI PUTTANESCA SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Combine 1 1/3 cups hot water and porcini in small bowl. Let stand until porcini are soft, about 25 minutes. Strain porcini, reserving liquid
• discard sandy residue in bottom of bowl. Coarsely chop porcini. Drain tomatoes, reserving juice. Bring juice to boil in large saucepan. Add onion and garlic. Reduce heat and simmer until onion is tender, about 15 minutes. Add porcini, reserved porcini liquid, tomatoes, olives and next 6 ingredients. Partially cover pot and simmer sauce until thickened slightly, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain pasta. Return to pot. Add sauce to pasta. Toss to blend.

FUSILLI WITH PORCINI PUTTANESCA SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine 1 1/3 cups hot water and porcini in small bowl. Let stand until porcini are soft, about 25 minutes. Strain porcini, reserving liquid; discard sandy residue in bottom of bowl. Coarsely chop porcini.
• Drain tomatoes, reserving juice. Bring juice to boil in large saucepan. Add onion and garlic. Reduce heat and simmer until onion is tender, about 15 minutes. Add porcini, reserved porcini liquid, tomatoes, olives and next 6 ingredients. Partially cover pot and simmer sauce until thickened slightly, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain pasta. Return to pot. Add sauce to pasta. Toss to blend.

FETTUCCINE PASTA WITH OCTOPUS AND PORCINI MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• To prepare fettuccine with octopus and porcini mushrooms , start by cleaning them: remove the soil from the base with a knife 1 , then clean both the stem and cap with a dry cloth 2 . It is not advisable to wash the mushrooms, as they may absorb water. If very dirty with soil, you can quickly run them under a very light stream of water. Cut the porcini mushrooms into slices about 1/6 inch (4-5 mm) thick 3 .
• Pour a drizzle of oil 4 into a saucepan and sauté a clove of garlic and chili pepper 5 . Add the sliced porcini mushrooms 6 ,
• and add the peeled plum tomatoes 7 ; tomato paste 8 , laurel 9 ,
• then add water 10 and, as soon as it comes to a boil, add the whole octopus (we used an octopus that was already eviscerated and cleaned) 11 and let it cook without a lid for at least one hour. Adjust the salt 12
• and flavor with thyme leaves 13 . After the cooking time has elapsed 14 , boil some water in a large pot and add salt. Then drain the octopus from the sauce, transfer it to a cutting board 15 ,
• and cut it into 1/2 inch (1-2 cm) pieces 16 . Transfer the sauce into the saucepan in which you will season your pasta, remove the garlic and add the pieces of octopus 17 . Continue to cook the sauce over low heat for about 10-15 minutes for it to reduce (it must be a fluid and not too watery). Cook the pasta for the time indicated on the package 18 ,
• then drain it and put it in the pan with the sauce 19 , stir well 20 and serve it steaming and garnished with more thyme 21 .

PUTTANESCA SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large pot heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Add the onion and saute until soft and lightly caramelized, about 6 minutes. Add the garlic and cook an additional 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and the remaining ingredients and simmer until the sauce is thickened and slightly reduced, about 40 minutes. Adjust seasoning, to taste, cover and set aside. Add penne pasta to the pan and toss for 1 minute.