Jamie's Festive Feast
30 mins
Super easy
serves 4
About the recipe
A comforting, delicious dinner, which you can bosh together without too much hassle. This recipe is great for using up any leftover cheese from your Christmas cheeseboard – I tend to chuck in a mixture of hard, soft, strong and mild cheeses, but go easy on the blue cheese (that stuff can be strong!).
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Ingredients
sea salt
3 heaped tablespoons mascarpone cheese or crème fraîche
100g mixed leftover cheese
250g dried taglierini
extra virgin olive oil
For the pangritata:
2 slices of quality sourdough bread
1 clove of garlic
1 sprig of fresh rosemary, thyme or marjoram, leaves picked
5 shelled walnuts
olive oil
Method
- To make the pangritata, lightly toast the sourdough. Peel the garlic, then put in a food processor with the toasted bread and the walnuts. Pick in the leaves of the herbs and blitz until fine.
- Preheat a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat, add a drizzle of olive oil, then add the pangritata and fry for around 5 minutes, or until golden and crisp.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, then reduce the heat to low and place a large heatproof bowl on top. Add the mascarpone or crème fraîche to the bowl along with the leftover cheeses, crumbling or grating any harder varieties first, then stir until melted.
- Carefully remove the bowl from the heat and set aside, then turn the heat up to high. Once the water is boiling, add the pasta and cook according to packet instructions.
- Drain the pasta, reserving a cupful of cooking water, then add to the bowl of melted cheese and toss to coat, adding a splash of the reserved cooking water to loosen, if needed.
- Transfer to a serving platter, drizzle over a little extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle the crispy pangritata on top and serve right away.
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