I am submitting this recipe for Pasta With Sausages And Cream to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by HoneyB, The Life and Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch.
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Once again I have turned to my copy of The Geometry of Pasta for a recipe. I chose this recipe for pasta with sausages and cream as last year Dave and I spent our annual holiday in Assisi, in the Umbria region of Italy. It was here that we indulged in truffles, ate a lot of ice cream, and walked through the old walled cities. This recipe, found across Umbria, should in theory be made with the famous sausage from Norcia – so famous that the word Norcina has become synonymous with sausage. Unfortunately, we don’t get this typical sausage here so I chose a pork sausage with Parmesan and pancetta in it as these are both Italian ingredients. According to the book, tortiglioni has pronounced grooves that are slightly slanted, wrapping around the tubular pasta in a multiple helix. This is a great bowl of comfort that I would make again, experimenting with different types of sausage.
Tortiglioni Alla Norcina | Pasta With Sausages And Cream
Ingredients
- 200 g tortiglioni
- 15 mls olive oil
- 250 g sausages, skins removed
- 1 small onion, peeled, cut in half and sliced
- 1.25 mls dried chilli flakes
- 100 mls white wine
- 125 mls cream
- grated Pecorino Romana for serving
Method
- while the pasta is boiling heat the olive oil in a large pan
- fry the sausage and the onions until the sausage is partially browned
- stir occasionally to break up the sausage
- add the chilli, closely followed by the wine
- reduce by half and then add the cream
- leave the sauce to thicken
- drain your pasta when al dente and add to the sauce
- cook together until the cream is thick enough to coat the pasta
- serve with plenty of black pepper and the grated cheese
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Sounds like my kind of holiday – beautiful scenery and amazing food! What a lovely recipe, have never heard of this before, but then it´s not a part of Italy I know at all.
That is what holidays should be all about 🙂
Sounds great Tandy – and I love pork sausages! never thought of adding them to a pasta before though, so thanks for the idea.
🙂 Mandy
I also love pork sausages 🙂
Looks great, Very comforting.
thanks, that is the perfect description of a pasta meal 🙂
I’m a huge fan of Italian sausages (often with fennel seeds) in my pasta and had to hunt for the ingredients to Norcina sausages… no fennel but lots of garlic. Can’t wait to give your version a try. Thanks for sharing with Presto Pasta Night. Always a pleasure when you do.
I also could only find that the sausage had no fennel seeds. I think the garlic would have been a nice addition 🙂
The dish looks tempting indeed, but a downside is whether one would be able to name what one was eating after even just one glass of the obligatory vino accompaniment.
I will have to give that a try!
My sausage stuffer broke last night! Unrelated, but it still smarts. What a wonderful place and a wonderful recipe!
that does smart indeed – I have one that still needs to be used!
This sounds like a wonderful pasta dish to serve as a small first course at my next party. I think it will be easy to do ahead and just adding the pasta at the last minute. It sounds so good.
that sounds like a great idea Karen – I am going to try something similar tomorrow night 🙂
A wonderful pasta meal, and memories of a truly beautiful place.
I could move to Italy tomorrow Yvette 🙂
Tandy, what a beautiful and flavorful pasta dish…love the sausage, wine and the cream in it…so creamy…
Hope you are having a great week Tandy and thanks for sharing such a tasty pasta dish 🙂
hope your week is wonderful as well 🙂
How can you go wrong with wine and cream?! This would be comfort food to me, pasta is always calling me back home!
Any pasta dish spells comfort to me 🙂
Wow! A post full of sublime inspiration today, Tandy, thanks…I can’t wait to try this….
it is my pleasure 🙂
This is a typican classic dish, aka pasta but What’s NOT to LOve here?
Comfort food! 🙂
thanks Sophie, I think so too 🙂
I love creamy pasta dishes and the chili flakes added to it makes it even more appealing to me! We don’t eat a lot of sausage here but do have it once in a blue moon. I’ll have to look this type of sausage up as I’ve not heard of it! Thank you for participating in PPN!
thanks for hosting, and I hope you can find a sausage similar to the one in the recipe 🙂
Love pasta with sausage, love pasta with cream sauce. Combining them sounds great as well – thank you for sharing this recipe!
it is my pleasure Bianca 🙂
Any holiday that involves truffles, icecream and walking through old walled cities is very high in my books!
mine too Brydie 🙂
Thanks for linking in, Tandy. Glad you liked the theme. Have a super week.
my pleasure Carole 🙂 Have a great week as well!