Langhe-style “tagliatelle” with rabbit livers, porcini and fresh sausage
 
 
INGREDIENTS (serves 4)
 
For “tagliatelle” noodles:
  • Plain flour, ½ kg
  • Eggs, 5
  • Water or white wine, 1-2 tbl
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    For ragoût:
  • Rabbit livers, 100 g
  • Dried porcini, 50 g
  • Fresh pork sausage, 50 g
  • “Gusti”: celery, carrot, onion, garlic, rosemary, sage, parsley
  • Extra-virgin olive oil – butter – lard
  • Fresh tomato sauce, 2 tbl
  • Dry Marsala-wine, 1 glass
  • Dolcetto red wine, 1 glass
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    PREPARATION
     
  • Prepare the dough as indicated in the previous ravioli recipe
  • When yellow and firm form the dough into a thin sheet using a rolling-pin or passing it through the largest rollers of the pasta machine
  • Slice the sheets (by hand or through the machine) into ½ cm ribbons
  • Leave your “tagliatelle” aside
  • In the meantime, prepare the ragoût, browning the livers in a pan with extra-virgin olive oil, butter, lard, vegetables and fresh aromatic herbs (all chopped) – when golden brown, sprinkle with red wine
  • Add the porcini (soaked in water and dry Marsala, then squeezed) and mince with the pork sausage removed from its skin
  • Combine with tomato sauce and the remaining red wine
  • Drop the tagliatelle in a large pot of boiling, salted water for a couple of minutes – drain
  • Sauté in the ragoût pan
  • Place on serving plates and dust with abundant, fresh grated Parmesan cheese
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