This dish is from my favorite Italian cookbook Frankies Spuntino. Making cavatelli was a first for me, and I have never made pasta with ricotta cheese, but there it is. It’s difficult to work with the dough, but I did my best. In the book the authors say that this is the most popular dish on their menu. That is good enough for me, and I LOVE brown butter sage sauce so it was an easy call. The recipe calls for hot italian sausage coins to accompany the brown butter sage sauce. To make the sauce, you first pre-cook the sausages, then cut them into coins. You brown the coins on both sides with some butter. Once browned, you set them aside and add butter and sage leaves to the pan. While the butter is browning you boil the pasta for about 4 minutes then drop them into the pan with the sausage, the pecorino romano and some white pepper….serve with a pinch of Italian parsley. I can absolutely see why it’s the most popular dish on their menu!
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