Malloreddus Pasta with Campidanese Sauce

Malloreddus with Campidanese sauce is a traditional Italian recipe coming from the south of Sardinia. The preparation of Campidanese sauce requires sausage, tomatoes and saffron. Usually saffron is directly added in the dough of malloreddus but in this case I wanted to use it also for the preparation of the sauce.


INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):

400g of Malloreddus Pasta
200g of sausage
1 Onion
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
400 ml of tomato sauce
Saffron
Basil
Pecorino cheese from Sardinia

PREPARATION TIME: 50 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10-15 minutes

WINE: Vermentino (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Let salted water boil for malloreddus. Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a large pan, chop the onion and add it to the pan. 

Let the onion sauté and then add the sausage in pieces. Let the sausage cook on a low flame for about 10-15 minutes. 

Afterwards add the tomato sauce and stir. Let the sauce cook for about 30 minutes stirring time by time. At the end add the basil

and saffron and cook for other 5 minutes. 

Here I didn’t add any salt because the sausage is already enough tasty but try the sauce before finishing the cooking and add the salt if you think is necessary. When the water boils add malloreddus and cook them for 10-15 minute, drain malloreddus and add them directly in the pan with the sauce,

let them sauté for few minutes. Serve them hot and sprinkle with abundant pecorino cheese from Sardinia.

BUON APPETITO!

Malloreddus Pasta

Malloreddus is traditional Italian pasta coming from Sardinia; they have a typical yellow color due to the presence of saffron in the preparation of the dough, and the shape of a shell with stripes on the surface. The preparation of Malloreddus requires only warm water, durum wheat flour and saffron. You can use saffron directly in the dough of malloreddus or in the seasoning. Malloreddus are usually served with a Campidanese sauce made with sausage, tomato and pecorino cheese or with a cheese sauce made with the traditional pecorino cheese of Sardinia.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
400g of Durum wheat flour
Saffron
200 ml of Warm water

PREPARATION TIME: 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10-15 minutes

PREPARATION
Place in a bowl the flour, the saffron and the warm water. 

Mix all together and work the dough until you obtain homogeneous and solid dough. 

To obtain malloreddus pasta work the dough in order to obtain long and thin sausage of dough as the one showed in this picture, 

then cut them in pieces of more or less 2 cm 

and with the help of a fork give them the typical shape of malloreddus as I shown in the picture below. 

In the next post I will show you how to prepare malloreddus with Campidanese sauce.

BUON APPETITO!