Strozzapreti with wild boar and mushroom sauce recipe

Created by Michele Usci and Tony Nicolini

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Cuisine: Italian
Prep Time: 35 min(s)
Cook Time: 40 min(s)
Serves 4

Chef Michele Usci and restaurant owner Tony Nicolini from Melbourne’s D.O.C Italian restaurant give us insider tips on how to prepare strozzapreti with wild boar sausages and mushroom sauce. This is an amazing type of pasta that literally means "the priest stranglers". It's used widely all over Italy and works best with rich tomato-based recipes.

You can also make this dish using lamb or pork sausages.

Ingredients

Strozzapreti pasta
350g durum wheat semolina
2 eggs
Salt and pepper
A little water

Sauce
100g diced onions
100g dice carrots
100g diced celery
1 garlic clove
1 bay leaf
1 pinch fresh sage
100g of mixed mushrooms (at least 20g of porcini)
300g wild boar D.O.C sausages (no casings)
1 glass of dry red wine
500ml tomato passata
1 cup meat stock

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Preparation

To make the pasta, place the semolina on a clean work bench. Make a well in the centre. Crack the eggs into the well. Add a little water, salt and pepper. Using your hands, work the ingredients to form a dough.

Using a wooden rolling pin, roll out the dough into flat sheets. Cut the dough into 2cm x 7cm strips. Lightly roll or twist 1 pasta strip between your palms. Repeat with the remaining pasta. Unlike spaghetti or macaroni, this pasta is not uniform in size or shape.

Cook the pasta in a saucepan of salted boiling water until al dente. (Fresh pasta will cook quicker than dried pasta.) Drain.

Heat extra virgin olive oil in a pot over medium heat. Add the onion, carrot, celery, garlic, bay leaf, sage, mushrooms and sausages. Pan-fry until the sausage begins to stick to the pot. Use a wooden spoon to break up the sausages. Add the red wine and cook it reduces slightly. Add the passata and 1 cup of meat stock. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.

Divide the pasta among plates. Top with the sauce and serve.

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