welcome friends today in the studio I'm gonna make a pretty simple lunchtime
pasta dish that I really enjoy and that is orecchietti pretty sure I'm saying that
wrong but sort of little ear pasta with a
sausage white wine sauce and it comes together really quickly pretty much in
the time that it takes the water to come to a boil and the pasta to cook you can
have everything else measured out and cooked so in this pan I put a little bit
of olive oil just to get the sausage started so this is one of our homemade
Italian sausages I've taken the casing off and I'm just gonna put that in and
brown it and break it up as it starts to brown well that's going I'm going to
grate some hard Italian cheese an aged cheese I use pretty much whatever I've
got open in the fridge whether that's par more pecorino and I like to grate it
myself rather than use one of those shaker cans the flavor is just so much
better and it really isn't that much more expensive when you figure it out
okay so the water is boiling in goes the pasta and give it a stir just so that it
doesn't clump together bubbling away so our sausage is cooked through at this
point and pretty brown so I'm gonna add in some red pepper flakes to taste make
it as hot or not hot as you like we'll just sort of stir that in to get them
cooking and white wine white wine of your choice
and I'll just bring that up to a boil to burn off that alcohol flavor you want
the wine flavor but not the alcohol flavor now I'm going to throw in some
frozen peas and you could put in pretty much any vegetable you want you could
put in sort of broccoli you could steam off a little bit of broccoli and put
that in asparagus tips you could put that in kale spinach whatever you want I
mean I've done this with butternut squash little bits of roasted butternut
squash that were leftover from a dinner a couple nights before absolutely
fantastic so really anything you want to put in as your vegetable and if you
don't wanna put a vegetable in don't put a vegetable in I mean it's gonna be your
pasta so do what you please that's gonna come up to temperature and we'll check
the pasta not even close yet okay doing good
okay so we are minutes away from the pasta being done I'm going to finish
this sauce with a little bit of cold butter you put butter in and you stir it
furiously and that will give your sauce a really nice silky feel and flavor
that's just unbelievable so we stir that in pasta is done so I'm
gonna turn that off and we pull it over and we just transfer the pasta out of
the pot directly into the pan with the sauce and you want to bring the pasta
water with it that pasta water is going to help thicken the sauce and make it
really sort of rich and luscious okay toss this all together and we drop in
the cheese just stir it till it's melted
looks great now before I serve it of course give it a taste make sure that
the the spicing is right yeah um for me maybe just a little bit more hot pepper
just a little bit bring that flavor up now there are a whole bunch of things
that you can do to change this certainly a little bit of white wine vinegar would
be fantastic in this brighten that flavor just a little bit a squeeze of
lemon if you've got a lemon just squeeze a little lemon juice in there it'll do
the same thing that acid will just brighten everything up at this point
if you wanted to you put like a quarter cup of heavy cream in here and mix that
in and that'll just sort of bring even more unctuous nests
to the dish but I didn't do any of those things because you know it's lunch time
in the studio I need something quick and fast and I just wanted to use what I had
on hand I really like this I'd say this head and head with the macaroni and
cheese hmm thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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