Creamy Boscaiola Sauce

BOSCAIOLA SAUCE

Boscaiola Sauce is one of the best and delicious classic sauces. It is based on

bacon and mushrooms. This sauce is normally served with spaghetti, or Maccheroncelli but you can use any type of pasta. In the photo it is shown the sauce on "ziti longhi"

You can serve this recipe with a delicate perfect salad dressed with your own homemade vinaigrette.

TRY THIS DELICIOUS RECIPE FOR ZITI LONGHI WITH CREAMY BOSCAIOLA SAUCE

Serves: 4
Preparation Time:15 minutes.
Total Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

500 gr (1 lb) pasta
6 bacon rashers, trimmed of rind and chopped
200 gr (6 1/2 oz) button mushrooms, sliced
2 1/2 cups (600 ml - 20 fl oz) cream
2 sprang onions, sliced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Directions

Cook the pasta in a large pan of rapidly boiling salted water until al dente. Drain return to the pan and keep warm.

While the pasta is cooking, heat about 1 tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan, add the bacon and mushroom and cook, stirring for 5 minutes or until golden brown

Stir in a little of the cream and scrape the wooden spoon on the bottom of the pan to dislodge any bacon that has stuck

Add the remaining cream, bring to the boil and cook over high heat for 1 5 minutes or until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon .

Stir the sprang onion through the mixture. Pour the sauce over the pasta and toss to combine Serve sprinkled with the chopped flesh parsley.

If you are short on time and don�t have 15 minutes to reduce tine sauce, it can be thickened with 2 teaspoons of cornflour mixed in 1 tablespoon of water. Stir until the mixture boils and thickens

"Boscaiola" means woodcutter. Collecting mush rooms is part of the Heritage of the woodcutters.

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