Italian
Pasta with Butter, Anchovies and Zucchini Flowers
by Marco Rufini · 181K subscribers on YouTube
A simple yet delicious pasta dish from Marco Rufini: whole wheat spaghetti tossed in a buttery sauce with melted anchovies and wilted zucchini flowers. Finished with black pepper, no added salt needed thanks to the anchovies.
- Difficulty
- easy
Ingredients
5 items- ButterUse good quality butter, preferably from centrifugal cream
- AnchoviesAnchovies (in oil or salted)
- Zucchini FlowersFresh zucchini flowers, cleaned
- Whole Wheat PastaWhole wheat spaghetti or other long pasta
- Black PepperTo taste
Method
- Boil the pasta in salted water (it will take about 10 minutes of cooking).
- Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: melt butter in a pan, add the anchovies and let them dissolve in the fat.
- Clean the zucchini flowers: open them and check the inside is clean.
- Add the zucchini flowers to the sauce and let them wilt gently.
- Add a splash of pasta cooking water to the sauce.
- When the pasta is al dente, transfer it to the sauce and finish cooking together, letting the sauce thicken.
- Add black pepper. Do not add salt because the anchovies already provide saltiness and the cooking water is already salted.
Marco Rufini
Professional chef181K subscribers on YouTube115.9M total channel views🧑🍳 Fidasse è bene, ma magnà... è mejo! 📍 Casale Rufini, Gallicano Nel Lazio (RM) 📩 rufini.info@gmail.com In elenco AGCOM Il mio nuovo libro 👇 https://amzn.eu/d/0hAuoE5k
