Le Ricette
Rotini with bottarga, garlic and dried pepper
di Academia Barilla

PREPARATION TIME
26 min
26 min

DIFFICULTY
Easy
Easy

TYPE
First course
First course
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Ingredients for 4 people
1 box rotini
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 ounces bottarga from mullet or tuna
one clove garlic
1 dried hot red pepper
salt to taste
Ingredients

Rotini
Try Barilla's Rotini from our Classic Blue Box pastas. This twisted shape allows the pasta to hold more sauce and is great in pasta salads or sauce dishes!
Try Barilla's Rotini from our Classic Blue Box pastas. This twisted shape allows the pasta to hold more sauce and is great in pasta salads or sauce dishes!

Bottarga
Bottarga is cured mullet or tuna eggs. The fish eggs are preserved inside the fish’s egg sack, or the ovaries.
Bottarga is cured mullet or tuna eggs. The fish eggs are preserved inside the fish’s egg sack, or the ovaries.

Preparation 5 minutes preparation + 21 minutes cooking

Heat the oil in a pan over low heat. Add the peeled garlic and finely chopped pepper and cook for 2 minutes. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water for the time indicated on the package.

Drain the pasta, dress it with the sauce prepared as above and garnish with the grated bottarga. Serve immediately.

Note: Bottarga, which is the dried egg sac of tuna, mullet and several other species of fish, is considered the "poor man's caviar" and in Italy is produced primarily in Tuscany, Sardinia and Sicily. It is sold whole or in powdered form.
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Bottarga is cured mullet or tuna eggs. The fish eggs are preserved inside the fish’s egg sack, or the ovaries.
Tags: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Fish-seafood-shellfish, Winter
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Try Barilla's Rotini from our Classic Blue Box pastas. This twisted shape allows the pasta to hold more sauce and is great in pasta salads or sauce dishes!
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