I have been away from home recently, and what I really enjoy is coming up with a dish using ingredients that I have…and need using up. This must be one of the reasons I enjoy camping and we always eat so well.
I had ‘nduja (a soft chilli-laden, soft salame from Calabria), a bunch of cime di rapa or rape (rape is plural of rapa) and some small and fabulous, pure pork sausages that I had cooked in some tomato salsa the day before. We had eaten most of these with polenta and these were left over.
What I did was simple. I braised the cime di rapa in some garlic and extra virgin olive oil as I do when I cook cime di rapa with pasta. Once cooked, I added the ‘nduja….probably too much, I love chilli but do others like it as much as I do? I could have used a half of the quantity and it still would have tasted great. The ‘nduja melts with the heat and coats the vegetables.
Next, I added the sausages and only a little of the tomato salsa. I was making a pasta sauce and not a soup a , so I needed just a little liquid.
I had rigatoni on hand, and some Sicilian pecorino pepato.
You will need to accept that it tasted vey good. So much so, Squid, that I did not have time to take a photo – it was gobbled up far too quickly by my two guests.
There are recipes for cooking with ‘nduja:
‘NDUJA, a spreadable and spicy pork salame from Calabria
SPAGHETTI with ‘NDUJA, SQUID, VONGOLE AND PAN GRATTATO
‘NDUJA and CALAMARI as a pasta sauce
Ho fatto varie ricette vostre specialmente il coniglio buonissime! Le ho prese in inglese avete anche in italiano?
No Angelo, soltanto In inglese. Scusa per non avere risposto prima, sono a Vienna.