Tagliolini with Black Truffle

Name: Tagliolini with Black Truffle
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 85 g butter; 55 g Parmesan, freshly grated; a few drops of truffle oil (optional); 55 g fresh black truffle, cleaned and finely sliced; salt and pepper to taste; 400 g freshly made tagliolini

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Mushroom Book

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

Depending on the season, this dish can be prepared with white Alba truffle, or simply with a black truffle. To give more flavour to the dish when using summer or Périgord truffle, add a few drops of truffle oil. This is a classic starter for an elegant meal.

Ingredients

400 g freshly made tagliolini
85 g butter
55

Europe
Italy
Starter
Mediterranean
Pasta
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

If you make your own pasta, you only need its cooking time - some 3-4 minutes - to cook the sauce! Is this the ultimate in fast food?

While the pasta is boiling in plenty of salted water (log salt per litre water), melt the butter in a pan, then add the sliced truffle with a few drops of truffle oil. (If using Alba truffle, the oil is not necessary.)

Drain the pasta, reserving a