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A Closely Guarded Mushroom, Thyme and Ricotta Linguine
A Closely Guarded Mushroom, Thyme and Ricotta Linguine

A Closely Guarded Mushroom, Thyme and Ricotta Linguine

Have you ever discovered a restaurant so good you didn’t want to tell anyone about it for fear it would be overrun? That’s exactly the way Patrick felt about a certain trattoria in Rome when he was filming there. They have a house speciality called Tonnarelli alla Ciociara which, in his words, “would make a grown man weep with pleasure”. This recreation did get our stomachs rumbling, and the name of the restaurant? You’ll have to twist his arm to find out!

Tags:
Veggie
Allergens:
Cereals containing gluten
Milk
Egg

The quantities provided above are averages only.

Boxes and ingredients are packed in facilities that handles Peanut, Nuts, Sesame, Fish, Crustaceans, Milk, Egg, Mustard, Celery, Soya, Gluten and Sulphites. Due to the war in Ukraine, it has been necessary to substitute sunflower oil with rapeseed oil in some products without a label change. The FSA have advised that allergic reactions to rapeseed oil are rare.

Total20 minutes
Active
DifficultyMedium

Ingredients

serving amount

1

Chestnut Mushrooms

2

Garlic Clove

2

Thyme

180

Linguine

(Contains: Cereals containing gluten)

2

Pine Nuts

½

Peas

½

Ricotta Cheese

½

Lemon

2

Grated Hard Italian Style Cheese

(Contains: Milk, Egg)

Nutritional information

/ per serving
Energy (kcal)821 kcal
Energy (kJ)3435 kJ
Fat40 g
of which saturates13 g
Carbohydrate103 g
Protein44 g
Always refer to the product label for the most accurate ingredient and allergen information.

Utensils

Pot
Knife
Pan
Grill Pan
Bowl

Instructions

1

Put a large pot of water on to boil with ¼ tsp of salt ready for the pasta.

slice your mushrooms
2

Roughly slice the mushrooms. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Pull your thyme leaves off their stalks.

3

Cook the pasta in the boiling water for 8 mins or until ‘al dente’. Towards the end you’ll add in the peas but we’ll remind you later. Tip: ‘Al dente’ simply means that the pasta is cooked through but has a slight bit of firmness left in the middle.

Toast the pine nuts
4

Toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan over a medium heat until they turn golden, then remove and keep to the side. Watch your nuts like an insomniac counting sheep - the moment your head is turned they’ll burn!

Cook mushroom mixture
5

Heat 1½ tbsp of olive oil in the frying pan until hot. Add the mushrooms, garlic, thyme and fry for 3-4 mins over a medium-high heat.

6

Remove half a cup of the pasta water from the pot and keep to the side. Add the peas to the pasta for the last 3 mins of cooking, then drain.

Add your water and ricotta to the mushrooms
7

Add ¼ tsp of salt to the mushrooms followed by your ricotta. Add a few tbsp of pasta water until you have a nice double cream consistency. Add a few grates of lemon zest, 1 tsp of lemon juice and toss in the pasta and peas. Add half the grated Italian cheese and toss everything together.

8

Serve with a scattering of the remaining cheese, the pine nuts, a few grinds of pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.

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