Recipe Orecchiette Cime di Rapa and sausages
A simple and quick recipe from the Puglia tradition that will surprise you with its tasty and creamy side.
Ingredients for 4 persons :
- 4 sausages to fry from your butcher
- 320gr of Orecchiette*
- 1 jar of Pesto Cime di Rapa from Pesto Puglia*
- Organic Olive Oil*
- Coarse Salt Riserva del Mare *
- ¼ glass of white wine
- 15-20gr of grated Parmesan *
- Chilli Olive Oil*
* Products available at MO Tra Mozzarelle & Olive
- Cut the sausages into pieces 1.5 to 2cm long
- In a frying pan put a bottom of Organic Olive Oil
- When the oil is hot, brown your sausages and brown them. If necessary, cover with a lid halfway through.
- At the same time put water to heat, and salt with the coarse salt Riserva del Mare
- Cook the Orecchiette
- At the same time pour the Pesto Cime di Rapa from Pesto Puglia into a salad bowl. Add the parmesan and mix, set aside.
- At the end of the cooking of the Orecchiette, take a ½ ladle of cooking water and add this water to your pesto & parmesan mixture and stir.
- When the sausages are well grilled, deglaze with white wine, let simmer so that the alcohol evaporates. Add the drained orecchiette and sauté them for a few seconds.
- Pour the orecchiette and sausages into the salad bowl, mix and serve.
- Enjoy your meal !
Variant :
- In the pure tradition, the recipe includes chilli. If you like the spicy side add to your sausages a red pepper cut into thin rings
- When you don't have chilli on hand, use Chilli Olive Oil*

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