The art of Italian cooking: tagliatelle with mushroom-and-chestnut sauce

Hi, this is the seventy second post about the art of cooking Italian pasta.

It’s mushroom time and we have created a new pasta recipe in the last days.

It tastes fantastic and it’s easy-to-do. The only difficulty is cleaning the mushrooms. You must be patient, very patient but if you like mushrooms it’ worthy to spend time scraping the soil away from every mushroom.

In this case we have chosen chanterelle mushrooms but you can use the mushrooms you prefer. We have already combined chestnuts with porcino mushrooms. How do you call Boletus species? punny ben? or bolete? or cep?

We’d like to know what’s the most common name of  the king of mushrooms  outside Italy.

Anyway this combination between mushrooms and chestnuts is flavorful and satisfying.

Tagliatelle with mushrooms and chestnuts

Read here step-by-step description to make tagliatelle with chanterelle-and-chestnut sauce.

Well, some of you would ask us why spelt tagliatelle … Spelt tagliatelle without eggs is the right choice for an healthy eating and particularly they combine their flavor very well with the sauce ingredients. But you could also use wholemeal or kamut tagliatelle if you want to make you family eat tasty and healthy food. This kind of pasta is rich in fibers and we need to eat a lot of fibers if we want to be on health.

Anyway if you choose this recipe to share a meal with your family and friends be sure every guest likes spelt or wholemeal pasta. On the contrary you can make this recipe with egg tagliatelle.

We suggest two variations to increase this pasta flavor.

1) Add 100 to 150 g (3 1/2oz to 5 1/4oz) fresh  sausage to the ingredients together with the aromatic herbs and substitute orange juice with white or red wine.

2) Brown the shallot and mushrooms in olive oil in which you have added a bit of butter too.

Calories and fat increase but once a time …

Tomorrow we are going to publish a new menu idea for this season with this main course.

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Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta