Yes, I know pasta is a quick weekday standby but how wonderful is it when you choose a different pasta shape and match the sauce to suit. It sort of elevates it to beyond the ordinary.
This dish uses orecchiette pasta (‘little ears’ in Italian). These little cup shaped pieces of pasta hold cream sauces very well and really the rest of the ingredients are quite ‘ordinary’ but together they create such a delicate, fresh and textured dish, that the sum is so much greater than the parts.
I recommend you serve it with a spoon to slurp up every drop of that delicious parmesan cream and toss in a few green peas if you like too.
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