Chanterelle Cream Sauce Pasta, plus Collards With Bacon Drippings
Sauce adapted from Earthy.com's Creamy Chanterelle Sauce recipe
Ingredients
- 1 bunch collard greens, washed and cut horizontally across rib into 1/2 inch wide ribbons
- 3 strips thick-sliced bacon
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/2 to 1 pound fresh Chanterelle mushrooms, sliced (leave small ones whole)
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1/3 cup brandy
- 1 cup chicken stock
- Salt
- Pepper
- Chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
- 1 lb farfalle or other dried pasta
- In a heavy skillet, cook bacon low and slow until crispy but not burnt. Turn off heat.
- Set bacon aside on grease-absorbing substrate of choice.
- Leave skillet with bacon grease and drippings on stove. You'll come back to it.
- Start heating pasta water.
- Melt the butter in a separate, non-bacony skillet over medium high heat.
- Add the mushrooms and the onion to the skillet. Sauté over medium-high heat until the mushrooms begin to brown and most of the liquid has reduced (~10 minutes).
- Add dried pasta to boiling pasta water.
- Add the cream and brandy to the mushrooms, then whisk in the chicken stock.
- Boil this mixture until thickened almost to a sauce consistency, about 8 minutes.
- Strain cooked pasta and place in large serving bowl. If you cooked it in an Italian pasta pot, put the strainer back in the water and keep it on simmer. If not, bring another pasta-pot sized batch of water to boil.
- Toss pasta with cream sauce. Season to taste with salt and freshly-ground pepper.
- Crumble bacon and sprinkle over top of pasta, followed by parsley.
- Turn heat for bacon-grease-and-drippings-holding skillet back on, to medium
- Put collards in boiling water to blanch (30 seconds at most)
- Strain collards, place in bacon-drippings skillet and toss, scraping pan to lightly coat with bacon bits and drippings (you might need to remove some of the grease beforehand).
- Serve pasta with collards on the side, wearing a self-satisfied grin.
i have never commented, but since you used alchemy and substrate in the same post i just had to! sounds delicious! but, i thought collards fell into the category of greens you had to cook for longer? i guess not?
ReplyDeleteCollards are the most delicious of the greens, in my opinion -- but they have to be cooked and served quickly. Otherwise they epitomize "meh."
ReplyDeleteLet me know what you think.
totally unexpected post ;)
ReplyDeleteBut I am DROOLING.
Gunna have to find out if we have collards in Australia, but I imagine bok choy would be just as good.
Hi Kelley!
ReplyDeleteIf you can't find collards, dark green kale or even chard would be closer than bok choy -- but you're right, the latter would likely be lovely.