Luca Lazzari
Sous Chef
August is a tough month.
It's holiday time for me, and I'm eating like an idiot, my lovely belly looks like a big watermelon. So last night I decided to take a pause and I prepared a simple, light
rofl rigatoni recipe.
In Italy we usually prepare it using spaghetti, and we call it "spaghetti burro e salvia", that is spaghetti butter and sage. But I'm a hopeless glutton, so I added lard an pepper to the standard recipe. Let's go.
For 4 people (I'm not talking about normal people, but people more like me) you need: 500 g of rigatoni; 150 g of butter; 6/8 big leaves of sage; 1 tablespoon of lard; salt and pepper; coarse salt; 4/6 tablespoons of parmigiano reggiano.
You can use more butter if you like it
Wash the sage leafs, dry them and cut them in little pieces. Melt the butter in a pan, don't keep the fire too high, add the lard and melt it too, I love tinkering these beautiful fats with a wooden spoon. Use butter, not oil, because this recipe's taste is completely based on it. Then add the sage pieces and saute them for 5 minutes, more or less, taking care not to burn them nor the butter and lard, then let this sauce rest.
Boil the water, add the coarse salt, cook the rigatoni. A couple of minutes before the rigatoni are cooked, put the sauce pan on fire again. Drain the rigatoni and put them in a large bowl, then pour the sauce on top of the pasta. Keep the pan near to the rigatoni and, with a wooden spoon, put some rigatoni inside the pan and thoroughly "clean" the sauce using the rigatoni; mix well. Add the parmigiano reggiano, the pepper (I like to grate it directly on the pasta). Again mix well and serve.
Buon appetito!
PS I'm using Italian butter, I don't know what different types of butter, if any, are available all around the world, I'm sorry...
It's holiday time for me, and I'm eating like an idiot, my lovely belly looks like a big watermelon. So last night I decided to take a pause and I prepared a simple, light
rofl rigatoni recipe.In Italy we usually prepare it using spaghetti, and we call it "spaghetti burro e salvia", that is spaghetti butter and sage. But I'm a hopeless glutton, so I added lard an pepper to the standard recipe. Let's go.
For 4 people (I'm not talking about normal people, but people more like me) you need: 500 g of rigatoni; 150 g of butter; 6/8 big leaves of sage; 1 tablespoon of lard; salt and pepper; coarse salt; 4/6 tablespoons of parmigiano reggiano.
You can use more butter if you like it
Wash the sage leafs, dry them and cut them in little pieces. Melt the butter in a pan, don't keep the fire too high, add the lard and melt it too, I love tinkering these beautiful fats with a wooden spoon. Use butter, not oil, because this recipe's taste is completely based on it. Then add the sage pieces and saute them for 5 minutes, more or less, taking care not to burn them nor the butter and lard, then let this sauce rest.
Boil the water, add the coarse salt, cook the rigatoni. A couple of minutes before the rigatoni are cooked, put the sauce pan on fire again. Drain the rigatoni and put them in a large bowl, then pour the sauce on top of the pasta. Keep the pan near to the rigatoni and, with a wooden spoon, put some rigatoni inside the pan and thoroughly "clean" the sauce using the rigatoni; mix well. Add the parmigiano reggiano, the pepper (I like to grate it directly on the pasta). Again mix well and serve.
Buon appetito!
PS I'm using Italian butter, I don't know what different types of butter, if any, are available all around the world, I'm sorry...
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