Referring to Spaghetti, everyone must think of large, golden noodles soaked in beautiful bright red tomato sauce. But did you know, that's not the only way to eat Spaghetti? Today, Pasta Fresca restaurant will reveal 3 ways to make sausage spaghetti for you to change. The reason we chose to make sausage spaghetti is because this ingredient is easy to find, and also has a European culinary style. Let's start.
Introducing 3 new sauces for your spaghetti
Let's start with a little shock. It's the tomato-minced beef spaghetti you usually eat, not the traditional Italian way of eating it, actually. Spaghetti was eaten dry with cheese a long time ago. After that, many new sauce recipes were born, depending on the taste and preferences of each family. But it was not until the late 19th century that ketchup became popular, becoming the image representing Spaghetti around the world.
Back to the main topic, Pasta Fresca introduces you to delicious spaghetti sauces that go well with sausage ingredients. All are popular and familiar cooking styles to the world in general and Italians in particular. But believe that, many Vietnamese people may not have known these sauces.
Marinara sauce
Marinara sauce is a popular choice for spaghetti and also goes well with hot dogs. This sauce is made from tomatoes, garlic, onions, olive oil and other spices. This is the closest variation to the beef spaghetti we often know. Sauce Marinara It has a sweet and sour taste, easy to eat with most people. The herbs in the sauce combined with the smokey flavor of the sausage make the dish even more delicious and unique.
Spaghetti Arrabbiata Sauce
More unusual is Arrabbiata with the famous spicy taste of Italian specialties. This hot spicy sauce is sure to completely change the way you look at Spaghetti. No longer a "friendly queen" with all tastes, Arrabbiata is more challenging with more garlic and red peppers. It is pungent, hot and all the more seductive when wafted with the smell of smoked sausage. Arrabbiata is more often served with penne pasta. But still perfectly fine if you choose to eat with Spaghetti.
Gorgonzola sauce
Gorgonzola is a completely different type of sauce with sausage. No longer the sweet and sour taste or the red color of tomatoes, this sauce is made from blue cheese, fresh cream and chestnuts, so it has a characteristic aromatic flavor. Therefore, this is definitely a very unique Spaghetti experience that you should try once to enjoy.
How to make Gorgonzola Sausage Spaghetti
Because the article wants to introduce you to a completely new spaghetti dish for a change. Therefore, we choose Gorgonzola to present in detail. making Spaghetti with sausage. The steps and ingredients needed are simple as follows.
Prepare materials
Here are the ingredients for 1 serving:
- 0.5 cups grated gorgonzola blue cheese
- 0.5 cup mascarpone cheese
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (or margarine)
- The amount of sausage just eaten
- 300g porcini mushrooms (or your favorite mushroom you can find)
- Roasted chestnut (Chongqing chestnut) kernel.
- Spaghetti. Here, we choose spaghetti because it's the most popular in Vietnam. But if you want to enjoy it properly, you should use fettuccine (flat noodles) or tortellini.
- 1 tablespoon dry Italian seasoning. You can also use oregano, rosemary and parsley powder/leaves directly.
- 1 large clove of garlic, minced.
- A little salt, finely ground black pepper.
Steps to make Spaghetti Spaghetti Sausage
- Step 1: Boil water on high heat, wait for it to boil, then add the noodles to cook until soft. Then you take out the noodles and do not rinse with cold water, mix with a little olive oil to prevent sticking. Keep a small cup of noodle broth.
- Step 2: Wash the mushrooms, cut off the roots to remove all the sandy soil and cut them into bite-sized pieces.
- Step 3: Add olive oil to the pan. When the oil is hot, add minced garlic and rosemary leaves and fry until fragrant. Continue to add mushrooms, sauté over high heat for about 5 minutes. Season with some salt and pepper. You should only add very little salt because the cheese in the next step is already salty.
- Step 4: Melt unsalted butter in a medium saucepan. Reduce heat to low, melt mascarpone and gorgonzola cheese. Add some of the reserved noodle broth on top. Continue to cook until they are melted and fully incorporated.
- Step 3: Add to the mixture of oregano, parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste. Add in boiled chestnuts but should be controlled to avoid excessive sweetness.
- Step 4: Add the cooked spaghetti to the cheese sauce. Cook on the stove for a few more minutes for the cheese sauce to soak into the noodles. Remove the noodles to a plate.
- Step 5: Sauté the sausage, slice it and place it on top. Garnish with pepper and parsley leaves (if desired). Use immediately while hot.
Enjoy
Spaghetti Gorgonzola is best enjoyed with a glass of traditional white wine. If you want, you can also prepare an additional salad to serve.
The recipe above uses no roux to keep the cream and water together. Therefore, if you leave it for a long time, you may see some water separating as the amount of cream shrinks. However, this does not affect the taste and quality much.
Epilogue
Hopefully the recipe above will help bring an enjoyable spaghetti experience to you. If you rarely cook Italian food yourself, you may be a little confused by the unfamiliar ingredients and methods. In this case, spend an Italian meal in a cozy restaurant Pasta Fresca is a great suggestion. Here, you'll get a taste of authentic, traditional Italy, made by an authentic Italian chef, without having to hunt for every single ingredient.
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