I've planted some red chycory salad in my vegetable garden this winter and I usually use it for making salads. But this time I wanted to try something different, since I read that it can be used to make pasta sauce. I had some fear to obtain a bitter sauce using red chycory, but with the addition of some cream and milk it was really delicious and not bitter at all. So, here's the recipe!
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 300g pasta
- one head of red chycory
- 100g of bacon (*)
- 1/2 onion
- 50g of cubed melting cheese (**)
- 50ml cream
- 50ml milk
- 2 spoons olive oil
- salt and pepper
(*) this time I had only sliced bacon, however the cubed one would have been better.
(**) it is possible to use grated parmesan as an alternative
Directions
- Heat a saucepan containing enough water to boil pasta and add some salt and pasta as soon as the water starts boiling
- In the meantime, put the chopped onion and the oil in a frying pan and let it brown for a couple of minutes
- Add to the frying pan the cubed bacon or the sliced bacon cut into strips and cook for other two minutes
- Add the red chycory cut into strips and cook for other two minutes
- Add the cream, milk and chopped or grated cheese and let the sauce cook at low temperature for about five minutes
- When the pasta is almost cooked add a couple of pasta cooking water spoons to the sauce, drain the pasta and add it to the frying pan
- Add some salt and pepper to adjust the sauce flavour and stir-fry the pasta until it is well mixed with the sauce
- Enjoy your meal!
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Have you ever used red chycory salad to make some hot dishes? I would be curious to find some other ideas!