Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pasta with black squid ink, squid and pistachio pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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When the pasta is ready drain and keep some of the water aside. Add the pesto, the squid, tomatoes and mix well adding some of the water if it looks too thick. On the plate lay down the squid ink sauce and add the pasta on top. Black spaghetti ( squid ink pasta) adds a a gourmet touch to this delicious shrimp pasta.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pasta with black squid ink, squid and pistachio pesto using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta with black squid ink, squid and pistachio pesto:
- Take 80 g pasta/ person (paccheri are the best option but other similar wholed dry pasta is good too)
- Make ready 400 g calamari
- Get 1/2 glass white wine
- Prepare Cherry tomatoes
- Prepare Granulated pistachios (decoration)
- Prepare Pistachio pesto
- Take 200 g pistachios unsalted and untoasted
- Prepare 1 handful Parmesan
- Get 4/5 basil leaves
- Make ready Oil
- Get Salt
- Take For sauce
- Prepare 1 shallot
- Get Concentrated tomato
- Make ready 1 jar tomato passata
- Make ready 1 clove garlic
- Take 2 squid ink pockets (depends on size)
Here is black spaghetti and some pork sausages. Blackness of this pasta comes from the squid ink. Yes, it is edible and is NOT fishy. Cook the pasta according to pasta directions.
Instructions to make Pasta with black squid ink, squid and pistachio pesto:
- Put a big pot of water with rock salt on the fire for the pasta. When it boils add the pasta and cook as per the instructions
- For the pesto: take the pistachios out of their shells and boil them in a little bit of water for a couple of minutes so that the skin will come off easily. Add in the mixer together with the rest of the ingredients until we’ll mixed. Store in a jar until you need it
- In a pan add some oil and when hot cook the squid chopped into thin pieces in the pan. Cook for about 10 min on low heat until cooked using the wine as and when needed to ensure it doesn’t stick to the pan. Set aside
- For the sauce in a pan on low heat add the shallot thinly chopped with some oil and a pinch of salt, leave it to cook for a while. When they are getting golden (not brown) add the passata and the concentrated tomato previously diluted in some hot water. Leave it to cook for 15 min on low heat covered. When ready to serve the pasta add the squid ink one sachet/ sack and the time until it becomes a very intense black.
- Put the cherry tomatoes in an oven proof dish, add some oil and salt and cook them in the oven on 160/170 for 10-15 minutes
- When the pasta is ready drain and keep some of the water aside. Add the pesto, the squid, tomatoes and mix well adding some of the water if it looks too thick. On the plate lay down the squid ink sauce and add the pasta on top.
Yes, it is edible and is NOT fishy. Cook the pasta according to pasta directions. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Adding jet black squid ink to a fresh pasta dough gives it a striking, shimmering appearance with a slight hint of the sea in its flavour. Most traditionally used in Italian cooking, squid ink (or sometimes cuttlefish ink) can also be used to colour and flavour risotto.
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