Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, spaghettini with grey mullet bottarga, lime and walnuts on truffle pesto. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bottarga is the naturally dried roe from grey mullet (muggine) or tuna and is thought to have been introduced to the coastal areas of Italy by the Phoenicians Serve the spaghetti in deep pasta dishes, grating the remaining bottarga over each portion, then decorate with the reserved bottarga strips and. Spaghettini with sea urchin and grey mullet bottarga - heavenly great. Very special. - Otto Ristorante, Singapur Resmi.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spaghettini with grey mullet bottarga, lime and walnuts on truffle pesto using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghettini with grey mullet bottarga, lime and walnuts on truffle pesto:
- Take 80 g spaghetti or spaghettini (I used Gragnano pasta)
- Get 1 knob butter
- Take 2 tbsp grey mullet bottarga
- Prepare 1/2 lime
- Get 4 walnut halves, chopped
- Make ready Black pepper
- Make ready Salt
- Make ready 1 pot of truffle pesto (optional)
It's considered to be a real delicacy in Italy, particularly in Sardinia. An easy recipe for spaghetti with a grated mullet roe sauce. Spaghetti with Bottarga, a quick and tasty dish for any time of the year and especially during Lent. Bottarga is often called the poor man's caviar, bottarga is the Italian word for a dense cured fish roe made from tuna, gray mullet or swordfish. #spaghetti #bottarga #italianfood Bottarga is an incredible product to use in our kitchen.
Instructions to make Spaghettini with grey mullet bottarga, lime and walnuts on truffle pesto:
- Boil a kettle and add boiling water to a pot on medium-high heat. Salt the water as preferred (I use half a tablespoon of salt for a medium pot) then add the pasta and cook as per instructions. You want to drain it while it's still al dente so remove from heat 2 minutes before the recommended cooking time. I used Gragnano pasta in the "spaghettini" cut, which cooks in 8 mins so I removed it from the heat after 6 mins and removed the excess water using a sieve (you can use a colander as well).
- While the pasta is cooking, heat up the knob of butter in a pan and add the chopped walnuts once it's hot. Toast them until they become golden brown, then add the drained pasta. Stir well.
- Add the juice of half a lime and grind some black pepper on top (to taste). Add the bottarga and stir well for a minute or so.
- Spoon some truffle pesto on a serving plate and place the pasta on it. Top with some more bottarga and walnuts. Serve hot - no one likes limp pasta!!
We are talking about a high-quality ingredient, mostly if we consider Bottarga from Cabras (Sardinia), where the production of these salted and cured fish roe still respects the natural life cycle of the grey mullet. Add walnuts and half of tomatoes, then, with motor running, stream in ⅓ cup oil; process just until combined. Transfer pasta to bowl with pesto and add a splash of pasta cooking liquid. Toss, adding more cooking liquid as needed, until sauce coats pasta. Gli spaghettini vongole bottarga e lime sono un saporito primo piatto da guastare idealmente in estate.
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