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MC TX12 - Mushroom capeletti with herb sauce + Hungarian red pepper + tomato coulis

Diana Dodog's pasta recipe from episode 12

Ingredients

  • 100 ml olive oil
  • 3 shallots
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • bunch of fresh herbs: parsley, chive, sprig of thyme, sprig of basil
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 red pepper
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 50 g smoked streaky bacon
  • 50 g chorizo/or hungarian sausage
  • salt + pepper
  • 1 potato medium size
  • 100 g mixed mushrooms
  • for pasta:
  • 200 g '00' flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 yolk
  • drizzle of olive oil
  • pinch of salt
  • 50 g extra flour for dusting

Method

  • Pasta:
  • Combine flour, eggs, oil, salt by handor processor
  • Wrap it in cling film
  • Rest in fridge for 20 minutes
  • Red pepper coulis:
  • Sweat finely chopped chorizo + bacon for 2 mins
  • Then sweat 2 finely chopped shallots + 1 clove of garlic for 4 mins
  • Set bacon + chorizo bits aside
  • For herb sauce:
  • Cook 1 medium size potato until soft (15 mins)
  • Crush it with a potato ricer
  • Add fresh parsley, lemon zest, basil, thyme, chives + blitz it in the food processor
  • Slowly add 100ml olive oil + blitz it for a few seconds until all combined
  • Check for seasoning
  • Mushroom sauce:
  • Finely chop shallot, garlic
  • Sweat 1 shallot, 1 clove of garlic in 1tbsp of vegetable oil
  • Add a sprig of thyme, salt + pepper
  • Finely chop the 100g mushrooms + fry until all liquid has evaporated. Approx. 4 mins
  • Set mushrooms aside to completely cool
  • When pasta dough has been rested, roll It out thin with the pasta machine
  • Flour your surface + cut approx. 7cm x 7cm squares
  • Place 1tsp of mushroom filling in the centre, fold over
  • Make sure to use egg wash to seal the parcels
  • Cook pasta for 1 min
  • serve