Tagliatelle with Chestnuts and Mushrooms with Pears and Hazelnuts


Servings: 4
Prep time: 45
Cooking time: 20
INGREDIENTS
  • - 15 g of dried mushrooms
  • - 180 g of white flour
  • - 100 g chestnut flour
  • - 2 eggs
  • - 3 pears
  • - 40 g of roasted hazelnuts
  • - 1 teaspoon of chopped rosemary
  • - 3 tablespoons of pecorino
  • - 2 cloves of garlic
  • - Extra virgin olive oil
  • - salt
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Clean the mushrooms and put them to soak in half a glass of warm water for 20 minutes. Drain and then whisk finely along with their soaking water, after filtering.
  2. Mix the two flours with eggs, cream and mushrooms and a pinch of salt, add warm water if necessary, form a smooth dough and let it rest in a damp cloth for about an hour.
  3. Peel the pears, cut them into four pieces, lengthwise, remove the seeds and then slice them all, except the four smaller segments for the final decoration. Coarsely chop the hazelnuts.
  4. Saute the garlic with rosemary and three tablespoons of olive oil over low heat, add the pears, salt and cook over medium heat for 10-12 minutes removing, half-cooked, the whole cloves.
  5. Roll out the dough until you reach scarce 2 mm thick and make normal tagliatelle to boil until al dente in salted water and then drain.
  6. Sautè the noodles in the pan along with the pears, distribute them in the dishes decorating them with chopped hazelnuts, grated Pecorino and possibly a slice of pear in the center of the dish.