Amalfi scialatielli with tomatoes, anchovies and persillade drizzle

  • medium
  • 4
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
5.00

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.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Scialatielli pasta

Persillade drizzle

Toasted panko

  • 2 tbsp of olive oil
  • 100g of Panko breadcrumbs
  • 1 pinch of flaky sea salt, plus more as needed

Tinned anchovy sauce

Garnish

Equipment

  • Pasta machine

Method

1

Begin by making the dough for the scialatielli pasta

2

Mix both of the flours together in a large bowl, then pour them out onto a clean surface

3

Use the base of the bowl to create a well in the flour, then crack in the egg

4

Drizzle in the milk while using a fork to beat the egg, bringing in a touch of flour at a time

  • 120ml of milk
5

Add in the grated pecorino, then start to knead the dough for around 10 minutes until it's smooth and elastic

  • 20g of pecorino, grated
6

Wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes

7

Meanwhile, make the persillade parsley drizzle. Add all of the ingredients except for the olive oil and parmesan to a food processor

8

Blitz until the parsley has mostly broken down, then drizzle in the olive oil while blending

  • 150ml of olive oil
9

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

10

Next, make the toasted panko. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat, then add in the panko

  • 2 tbsp of olive oil
  • 100g of Panko breadcrumbs
11

Cook until golden brown and crisp, then season with a generous sprinkle of salt

12

Remove from the heat and transfer to a separate bowl until serving

13

Next, roll out the pasta. Take the dough out of the fridge and divide it into two portions

14

Dust each in 00 flour and roll out through a pasta machine until around 3 mm thick – it should be just thicker than tagliatelle

15

Cut each sheet of pasta into 10–15 cm lengths

16

Fold each of these up like an accordion, then slice into 1 cm-wide strips

17

Dust the pasta in 00 flour again and set aside

18

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and place a sauté pan over medium heat

19

Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook for 4–5 minutes, or until just tender

20

Heat the 4 tsp olive oil in the sauté pan, then add in the minced garlic along with the anchovies

21

Cook down the garlic and anchovies, before adding in the halved cherry tomatoes

22

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

23

Add in the lemon juice, zest and capers then toss well. Drizzle in a touch more olive oil as you toss the pasta

  • 2 lemons, juiced and zested
  • 2 tbsp of capers
  • 4 tsp olive oil, plus extra for cooking
24

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

First published in 2024

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