Do you know Italy is the biggest producer of artichokes? With Spain and France they produce the 80% of artichokes in the world... Guess which country outside Europe produce a large amount of Artichokes... California, of course! Fede went for a thankgiving trip in Monterey, 2 hous south of San Francisco, and bought a lot of them. Here one of the recipes she made with them.
Ingredients- 200g of tagliatelle pasta (or 160g of regular pasta) Look the recipe to make it at home! - 10 mini artichokes (or 3 normal artichokes) - 200ml of whipping cream - parmesan cheese, gratered - half an onion - half a glass of white wine - 1 cup of broth - italian parsley - half a lemon |
Clean the artichokes: wash them and take out the hard external leaves. Have the mini artichokes will help you in this phase, they are tender so you don't need to waste a lot of leaves. Cut the artichokews in quarters and then in thin slices. |
While you are cleaning and cutting all the artichokes you can sqeeze a lemon over them so they won't turn black. Chop the italian parsley. |
Dice the onion and sweat it in a pan with 2 tblspoons of olive oil at medium heat. Add the artichokes and the parsley and stir. |
Turn the heat high and add half a glass of white wine. Let it evaporate. Add the broth. |
Cover the pan, turn the heat medium low and cook for 20 min or until the artichokes are soft. Then take half of the artichokes and place them on a cutting board. |
Dice them with a knife and reput them in the pan. Add whipping cream and stir. |
If you want a more creamy sauce you can use a food processor to mash half of the artichokes with a little bit of whipping cream, instead of cutting them on the board. Then put everything in the pot. |
Cook the tagliatelle. Boil a pot of water and add salt. |
Cook the tagliatelle. Usually tagliatelle is an egg pasta, so look carefully the time of cooking on your package, usually they cook really fast (about 4/5 minutes). Strain them. |
Put them in the pan with the artichoke sauce and mix. Add parmesan cheese and mix again. |
Serve warm sprinkling parmesan on top. |
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