Orecchiette pasta with mushrooms and spinach

I like eating Orecchiette pasta since eating it in London a few years back at the now sadly closed Paesan restaurant close to Exmouth Market. Orecchiette are a pasta typical of the Apulia region of Italy. 

I cooked the pasta according to the instructions on the packet. I then in a large frying pan cooked off some pancetta. To this I added some finely chopped red onion (would have probably used brown onion, but I didn’t have any). Once the onion was soft I added some chopped mushrooms.

Once the mushrooms were cooked, I added a splash of white wine. I reduced the wine and then mixed in some crème fraîche. I added the cooked pasta and served with some freshly grated parmesan and toasted pine nuts.

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