Today, we will prepare together a pasta recipe using two flavourful ingredients that are typical of the Winter season: Radicchio and Speck.

Radicchio is a type of chicory, a flavorful and versatile fall vegetable. The leaves are a little bitter with a crisp crunch. Speck is a pork-product very similar to prosciutto but the meat is smoked as a final step in the curing process.

The combination of “radicchio and speck” is a classic Italian winter recipe. It has a delicious bitter aftertaste and the crunchy speck strips give an intense boost of taste to the sauce. For my recipe, I used Fettucina pasta because is a perfect cradle for the sauce and is one of my favourite shapes for a Sunday Meal!

Discover all the secrets of this super easy and quick recipe and surprise your guests!

So what are you waiting for? Let’s try my:

Fettuccine Pasta with Speck and Radicchio Sauce

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 250g Fettuccia Pasta
• 400g Radicchio
• 180g Speck (strips)
• 100g Single Cream
• 50g Tomato Sauce
• 1 Shallot
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil “Il Vero”

Salt and Pepper, as needed

Clean and finely slice the radicchio salad and the shallot.

In the meanwhile, cook the Fettuccia pasta in salted boiling water. Drain the pasta 2 minutes before the time, and ultimate the cooking in the pan with the sauce. In this way, the pasta will get a more intense flavour.

When the pasta is ready, add the sliced radicchio and stir all together for one minute. the salad should remain crunchy, to give a touch of freshness to the sauce.

All done! Serve warm and… Enjoy!

Buon Appetito!