{"id":7305,"date":"2018-05-23T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:54:41","slug":"mushrooms-and-tomato-sauce-orecchiette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Orecchiette with Fresh Tomato & Mushroom Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite short pasta shapes is\u00a0orecchiette<\/a>,<\/a>\u00a0which means “little ears”.\u00a0<\/span>The original recipe from Puglia\u00a0combines orecchiette with \u201cCime di Rapa<\/a><\/span>\u201d – a variety of the same family of broccoli from\u00a0the heel of Italy\u2019s \u201cboot”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, \u00a0it\u2019s also perfect with tomato and vegetable-based sauces\u00a0because it’s ear-like shape holds the sauce very well.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what are you waiting for? Wear your apron and let’s go! Try my:<\/p>\n

Orecchiette with Tomato and Mushroom Sauce<\/h1>\n

Ingredients for 2\/3 people<\/h2>\n

250g\u00a0Orecchiette<\/a><\/p>\n

50g Medium size tomatoes or cherry tomatoes<\/p>\n

1 Onion<\/p>\n

100g Mushrooms<\/p>\n

1 Chilli Pepper<\/p>\n

1 Tbsp Tomato concentrate<\/p>\n

Parsley, as needed<\/p>\n

Extra Virgin Olive Oil “Il Vero”<\/a><\/p>\n

Salt, as needed<\/p>\n

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Ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finely slice the onion.<\/p>\n

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Finely slice the onion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brown the onion in a pan with a little bit of Extra Virgin Olive Oil “Il Vero”<\/a> and a chilli pepper.<\/p>\n

Then, slice the tomatoes and add them to the pan.<\/p>\n

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Chop the tomatoes into fourths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cook the tomatoes for few minutes and then, add a spoon of tomato concentrate and the mushrooms and let it cook for 20 minutes on a low heat (or 30 if you are using frozen mushrooms).<\/p>\n

As needed add a spoon of the cooking water from the pasta.\u00a0 and salt,<\/p>\n

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Slowly cook all the ingredients on a low heat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eventually, check the sauce from time to time, and add further water if it becomes too dry. At the end add the chopped parsley.<\/p>\n

Turn off the heat ones the sauce is ready.<\/p>\n

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The sauce is ready<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the meanwhile, bring to the boil a pot full of salted water and cook the orecchiette<\/a> for the time suggested on the bag, usually between 12-15min.<\/p>\n

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Boil the orecchiette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, drain the orecchiette pasta<\/a> and pour it into the pan. Stir on a high heat for a couple of minutes and then turn off the cooker. Add fresh parsley and serve.<\/p>\n

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Toss the orecchiette pasta with the sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All done… so delicious!<\/p>\n

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So delicious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Enjoy and… Buon Appetito!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite short pasta shapes is\u00a0orecchiette,\u00a0which means “little ears”.\u00a0The original recipe from Puglia\u00a0combines orecchiette with \u201cCime di Rapa\u201d – a variety of the same family of broccoli from\u00a0the heel of Italy\u2019s \u201cboot”\u00a0 However, \u00a0it\u2019s also perfect with tomato and vegetable-based sauces\u00a0because it’s ear-like shape holds the sauce very well. So what are you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}