Butter, cheese, olive oil, garlic — these are our favorite things to mix with pasta. In one of Martha Stewart’s favorite pasta recipes, however, she adds a secret sweet ingredient, and it looks so good! The chef and lifestyle guru shared her recipe for this pasta that “you can’t stop eating,” and we need to try it ASAP.
“This bottarga pasta is a dish Martha tasted on her first visit to the Italian island of Sardinia, and it’s one you’ll want to add to your dinner rotation,” a video on Stewart’s Instagram was captioned, featuring a how-to video for making her Bucatini with Breadcrumbs and Bottarga recipe.
For the uninitiated, bucatini is a round pasta noodle that has a hole running down its center to soak up sauce. And bottarga has a salty, briny flavor made from the roe sacs of fish like mullet or tuna.
Stewart shared more details on her website, where she explained the dish “showcases the pressed, salted, and air-dried roe of gray mullet or tuna, which has a unique pungent flavor” and it makes “a quick pasta quite unlike any other” with its one-of-a-kind sauce. And the surprising secret ingredient? Raisins!
To make the dish, you’ll need fresh breadcrumbs, bucatini pasta, capers, yellow raisons, bottarga, pine nuts, and more ingredients. Start with the basics: olive oil and garlic cloves in a skillet. You’ll make the breadcrumbs in this pan, then set aside while you work on everything else.
Boil the pasta in a large pot of water, and make the sauce in a large, high-sided skillet. You’ll continue adding ingredients to the skillet, including the pasta, then garnish with the original breadcrumb mixture. Garnish with shaved parmesan and bottarga and dig in!
On her website, Stewart says this is “a dish you can’t stop eating—and one you will remember forever.” Fans seem to agree, with one person commenting, “Martha that looks extremely nice thank you for always featuring pasta content.”
“Fabulous as ALWAYS, we love 💕 you, Martha!!!! 🇺🇸” another person wrote.
Get Stewart’s full Bucatini with Breadcrumbs and Bottarga recipe HERE.
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