Italian recipes: cavatelli with sauce, aubergines, sausage and mozzarella

I tasty cavatelli they can be prepared in various ways and seasoned with sauce, aubergines, sausage and mozzarella. Here's the recipe!

Many recipes with tasty cavatelli

Un first course beautiful to look at but also rich and tasty: let's talk about cavatelli, a typology of fresh pasta pasta realized by hand with durum wheat flour much loved and used in the kitchen with many ingredients throughout Italy, especially in the South. It is one of the regional excellences of our cuisine

They are said to have been born in the reign of Frederick II in Molise , so much so that it is thought to be one of the oldest pasta preparations in Italy.

This type of pasta can be seasoned mainly with ragù but also with meat, fish and vegetable sauces.

Preparation of cavatelli

Arrange the flour in a small pile. Add water and salt a little at a time, then the oil, and knead by hand. After kneading the dough, let the mixture rest for about half an hour. Once the time has passed we begin to cut the dough into pieces, be careful, take a piece of no more than no more than 1 cm. Exert a little pressure and hollow out the cavatello inside, curling the edges. Some also use a fork. Then let the pasta dry, put it in the fridge for a few hours. After these operations the cavatelli can be boiled in water.

The recipe for cavatelli with sauce, aubergines, sausage and mozzarella

Prepare a dough with 300 grams of durum wheat flour from which to obtain the cavatelli using the method explained above. Arranging the ingredients for the condiments, preparing the sauce with sautéed onion and garlic; previously cook some sausage and aubergines. When they are cooked, after starting to cook the sauce, crumble the sausage and cut the aubergines into small pieces and add everything to the pan. Cook everything for a good half hour. Prepare a baking dish on which to place the cavatelli to be seasoned and cooked together with the sauce. Add basil, salt, breadcrumbs, mozzarella and parmesan to make the crust. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes over high heat, being careful.

Other ideas with cavatelli

Cavatelli are still prepared at home today: what makes them special is their typical hollow shape, made with the hands.

Other ingredients to enhance the flavor of this pasta and other ideas with which to season them are: speck, rocket and potato cream but also with mussels and beans, with courgettes, ricotta and sausage, with pepper sauce, mushrooms, broccoli, turnip greens , courgette flowers, typical of the season we are experiencing.

Have fun with recipes and ingredients and enjoy your meal!!!

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