Serves four
Ingredients for the tagliatelle:
4 eggs; 400 grams of flour.
Ingredients for the mushroom
gravy:
90 grams of dried mushrooms;
half an onion,
a clove of garlic
and
some cooking cream
half a glass of
white wine.
Directions
Make the tagliatelle: put the flour in a” heap” (a
volcano like shape) on the chopping board, then brake the eggs and put them in
the middle of the volcano-heap hole. Then knead eggs and flour as shown
(video). Tip: put some flour on your hands in order not to let the mixture
stick on them, do the same for the chopping board. When the mixture looks very
smooth like this (picture) put it between two bowls and let it rest for at
least half an hour.
Now you have
to stretch the dough to make it thin as shown (picture) with the rolling pin.
Later you
have to roll it trying to get a rectangle as shown, then you have to cut it
striped like in the picture. Take the stripes and unroll them like shown in the
video. Finally twist them like “nests” as shown (picture) and wait until they
dry.
Make the sauce: put the mushrooms
in a bowl of water and soak them, it should take about twenty minutes
Meanwhile thinly slice an onion and put it in
a frying pan with hot olive oil, add a clove of garlic but remember to take it
out at the end. Take the mushrooms out of the bowl and squeeze them so that
they lose the absorbed water but remember to keep that water. Put the mushrooms
with the fried onion and cook on medium heat , after about five minutes
blend with wine and wait until it evaporate.
Complete the
cooking adding the mushroom’s water when the pan gets dry, season to tastewith
salt and black pepper.
Cook the tagliatelle: fill a pot with water and put it on
fire, when the water starts boiling add and
the noodles. After about five minutes noodles should be cooked, drain
them well al dente and toss them in the
pan with the sauce.
To complete
the dish you may put some cream, just enough to mesh the noodles with the sauce
but remember that the less is the better,
stir for a couple of minutes and remove the garlic.
EXTRA TIPS
- Sprinkle
with parsely
- Sprinkle
with parmesan cheese
- if you can
get fresh, wild mushrooms, your dish will be even better!
- If you are
short of time you can buy pasta instead of making it.
