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Calabria: Scarpariello pasta with nduja

Chef

Viviana Marrocoli

Cook & Prep Time

1 hour

Serves

4

Calabria: Scarpariello pasta with nduja

Ingredients

  • 400g canned organic datterini (or cherry) tomatoes
  • 320g pennette
  • 60g nduja
  • 50g pecorino cheese (grated)
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/2 onion
  • a bunch of fresh basil (leaves only)
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • sun-dried tomatoes in oil to taste

Directions

Step 1

In a large frying pan, briefly sauté the garlic clove and finely chopped onion in some extra virgin olive oil. Add the nduja, allow the onion to brown a little and the nduja to melt.

Step 2

Halve the baby plum tomatoes and when the nduja has almost completely melted, add the tomatoes to the pan, season with a pinch of salt and cook for about 20 minutes.

Step 3

Then, blend the sauce and pour it back into the frying pan. In a saucepan, bring plenty of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta for a couple of minutes less than the time indicated on the packet.

Step 4

Drain (reserving the cooking water) and add to the spicy baby plum tomato sauce, add a ladle of cooking water and finish off the cooking.

Step 5

Take off the heat, add the grated pecorino and stir to combine everything. Drain a few sun-dried tomatoes, rinse and squeeze out the excess oil.

Serve the pasta scattered with the sun-dried tomatoes and a few basil leaves.