Chestnut pasta with guanciale, red grapes, grana emulsion
Chestnut pasta might just be the perfect Fall dish.
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Ingredients
2 tbsp
butter, (+more if needed)
1/2 cup
grana padano
3/4 cup
red grapes
4oz
cut into thin strips guanciale
1/2 cup
pasta water
Chestnut flour pasta
1 cup
chestnut flour
1 1/2 cup
flour, "00"
3
large eggs
1/2 cup
milk
Instructions
Chestnut flour pasta:
- Sift the two flours together in a large bowl or on a wooden board.
- Form a fountain and crack the eggs in the middle of it, add most of the milk and start kneading until a shiny pasta ball is formed. Place the dough under a dome or in a plastic bag and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
- Roll the pasta with the appropriate machine, or if you are good to do it using a rolling pin excellent, make into fettuccine type pasta and set aside until needed.
- Precook the pasta in salted boiling water until done to your liking, reserve some of the cooking water for the sauce.
- Preheat a frying pan and into it add the guanciale, render at medium low heat to remove excess fat.
- Drain the fat from the guanciale and into the pan add half of the butter and the grapes, sauté on a strong fire for a few seconds and add the pasta water, turn the fire down to medium.
- Add the precooked pasta, turn the fire down and add the remaining butter and all cheese, toss to emulsify the sauce and serve immediately.