If you've made pasta before, this recipe for scialatielli might make you do a bit of a double take, since it's made with milk and cheese! It was invented by an Italian chef in a restaurant in Campania in the late twentieth century, and here we've served it with a savoury tomato and anchovy sauce.
Begin by making the dough for the scialatielli pasta
Mix both of the flours together in a large bowl, then pour them out onto a clean surface
Use the base of the bowl to create a well in the flour, then crack in the egg
Drizzle in the milk while using a fork to beat the egg, bringing in a touch of flour at a time
Add in the grated pecorino, then start to knead the dough for around 10 minutes until it's smooth and elastic
Wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes
Meanwhile, make the persillade parsley drizzle. Add all of the ingredients except for the olive oil and parmesan to a food processor
Blitz until the parsley has mostly broken down, then drizzle in the olive oil while blending
Once the mix is almost smooth, but you can still see the odd parsley leaf, remove, transfer the drizzle to a bowl and mix in the grated parmesan
Next, make the toasted panko. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat, then add in the panko
Cook until golden brown and crisp, then season with a generous sprinkle of salt
Remove from the heat and transfer to a separate bowl until serving
Next, roll out the pasta. Take the dough out of the fridge and divide it into two portions
Dust each in 00 flour and roll out through a pasta machine until around 3 mm thick – it should be just thicker than tagliatelle
Cut each sheet of pasta into 10–15 cm lengths
Fold each of these up like an accordion, then slice into 1 cm-wide strips
Dust the pasta in 00 flour again and set aside
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and place a sauté pan over medium heat
Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook for 4–5 minutes, or until just tender
Heat the 4 tsp olive oil in the sauté pan, then add in the minced garlic along with the anchovies
Cook down the garlic and anchovies, before adding in the halved cherry tomatoes
Turn up the heat, season well with salt and pepper, then cook down the tomatoes for 5 minutes until they have evaporated some of their liquid
Spoon the pasta onto serving plates and top each of the bowls of pasta with a generous drizzle of the persillade, some crispy toasted panko, a handful of fresh parsley, more lemon zest and a final drizzle of olive oil
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