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Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

January 7, 2020 10 Comments


Easy & Delicious Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce is a dish that few, if any of us, could possibly resist! The pasta is coated with a luscious coating of cream and Parmigiano cheese. Slivers of fragrant black truffles blissfully float in the silky, delicate sauce.

One of the greatest food treasures in life has to be Italian truffles. Worth its weight in culinary gold, truffles are highly coveted and sought out to take ordinary recipes to superb new heights of deliciousness! Truffles are at the top of the list of elite food delicacies such as caviar and fine champagne! This Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce is not only a feast for your eyes, but with just one bite you’ll take in a flavor that’s impossible to describe!

Once you enjoy your first taste of truffles, you’ll forever recognize their unmistakable earthy flavor and intoxicating aroma.

This Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce is not only amazingly delicious, it’s got a simple beauty to it as well.

This is so OMG crazy good that when you’re tasting for the perfect level of salt, you won’t even want to wait to plate this. You’ll go for it . . . right out of the pan.

I think that I actually did eat about a fourth of this pasta before it hit the plate! (My husband doesn’t know that I did that . . . hope he skips over reading this post!).

That said, this isn’t on your keto diet!

In fact, it’s not on any diet. But you will end up on a diet from this pasta.

Don’t let that hold you back, my friends. It’s the story of my life! Eat — diet — eat — diet. You know the routine!

And yet, this is such a crazy, easy recipe to make in less than 15 minutes. Not 30 minutes! Less than 15 minutes!

Easy & Delicious Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

How To Cook With Truffles

  • Truffles need to be eaten within 7 days of harvest, with each day they lose their potent flavor and aroma. So keep that in mind if you’re planning to cook with them beyond a one week storage period.
  • The best way to cook with truffles is as simple as possible. Less is more when adding truffles. Their super strength in flavor means that just a little adds a lot of flavor. So always think SIMPLICITY!
  • In the pasta and risotto department, you don’t have to make a fussy, fancy dish. Always use the best, finest ingredients you can afford when including truffles.
  • If you’re going to splurge on white truffles, they should only be shaved on top of the dishes. But both black or white truffles can be near the end of cooking your recipe and/or for garnish.
  • The flavor of black truffles amps up when heated. You can add the truffles to hot pasta.
  • Truffles are the best friends of cream, butter and olive oil.
  • Classic dishes that include truffles are warm cheese/buttery-sauced pasta, risotto, mashed potatoes, pizza, wild mushrooms, and/or eggs (including frittata).
  • Truffles will pair best with warming dishes like risotto, mashed potatoes, pizza, and any cheesy pasta.
  • Truffles are also magnificent on for shaving over beef carpaccio or added to a wine-based steak sauce.
  • Never blend truffles with vinegar, citrus (and citrus juice); anything acidic will not pair well with truffles.

Easy and Delicious Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce
EASY & DELICIOUS Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

Can’t find whole truffles?

Well, if you live in any place similar to where I live . . . in a very rural, off-the-beaten-track on a secluded gravel road . . . then you won’t find truffles in the store or market! If you live in a large metro area where lots of gourmet specialty products are available, you dont have to look very far. There are lots of online gourmet stores that will gladly take your money too for some hard-to-find fresh truffles.

But I’ll help you find them anyway. Just be prepared for some major sticker price shock!

First, you can always try the good old stand by Amazon. Here’s what I recommend for you:

Fresh Italian Black Truffles (2 oz.)

Italian White Truffle (1 pc. $1,200.00) Yikes, I just had to share this to show the incredible expense of truffles!

Italian Truffle Salt

Truffle salt has tiny fragrant pieces of black or white truffle blended in.

Truffle oil usually comes in small 2 or 3-oz. bottles—it delivers the taste and smell of real truffles with a derived “essence” but is not actually made from real truffles.

Italian Black Truffle Oil (I picked up this tin can of truffle oil in Umbria, Italy in a little panini shop. The owner of the shop recommended this brand. It’s on Amazon too and I’ve included the link.

Truffle cheeses are rare, but you can still find them. Try these: Moliterno Black Truffle Pecorino, Boschetto al Tartufo, Venetian Sottocenere.

These are all available on Amazon. (I couldn’t get the links to work for these so if you’re interested, just copy and paste the names of these and they’ll pop up for you.)

Here are some additional truffle products that I picked up when I was in Umbria in 2017 (specifically when I visited the town of Assisi where St. Francis was from and where he is buried today). I purchased these at the same shop in Italy that I purchased the truffle oil. I’ll do my best to give you some ‘state-side’ sources for you.

Whole Summer Truffles by Tartufi (less expensive than autumn’s truffles)

Don’t forget, a little goes a long way!

Italian Acacia Honey with Truffles

White Truffles in Parmigiano Cream

Storing Truffles

Once a fresh truffle is out of the ground, it doesn’t keep long. To best preserve, your truffle, wrap it in a paper towel, put in an airtight plastic container and set in the refrigerator. Do not clean the truffle until you are ready to use it. Keep your fresh truffles DRY and avoid any extra moisture or humidity which makes them spoil and rot. Allow truffles to come to room temperature before using.

Easy and delicious Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

Black truffles swimming in the silky cream sauce. Grab a fork and taste to your delight (before serving because you won’t be able to resist this)!

More Recipes with Truffles:

Porcini Mushroom Risotto with Truffles

Risotto with Porcini Mushrooms and Truffles

Six Cheese Pasta with Truffles

Six Cheese Pasta with Truffles and Prosciutto

I highly recommend and use each of the following for preparing pasta:

Stainless Steel 4-Piece 8 Quart Pasta Pot with Strainer and Steamer

Set of 3 Spider Strainers

11″ Copper Non-Stick Frying Skillet (actually this is the skillet that I use and in the photos — it’s a dream pan!)

Truffle Slicer with Recipe e-Book

Yield: 6 servings

Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce

Easy and Delicious Pasta with Truffle Cream Sauce
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1-½ lb. fresh pasta (penne, rigatoni, spaghetti, fettucine)
  • ½ cup butter
  • 1-½ cups freshly grated Parmigiano cheese
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 - 2 oz. imported Italian truffles, sliced or diced
  • Freshly cracked salt and pepper to taste
  • For the table: extra sliced or diced truffles for guests to add to their own servings
  • For the table: ½ - 1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano cheese for guests add to their own servings.

Instructions

    1. Cook the past in a tall pot of boiling water.
    2. Drain after reaching al dente (when there's a little bit of a bite to the texture of the pasta) -- spaghetti and fettucine about 6 minutes, penne and rigatoni about 9 minutes.
    3. While pasta is boiling, melt the butter in a large saucepan or frying pan with tall sides.
    4. Mix into the melted butter the Parmigiano cheese and cream.
    5. Add the cooked pasta, toss well, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
    6. Put the pasta mixture into a large serving bowl and grate the truffle over the pasta. You may also want to serve more truffles separately at the table for guests to add to their servings.
    7. Serve additional grated Parmigano cheese to pass around the table also.
© Roz | La Bella Vita Cucina
Cuisine: Italian / Category: Pasta

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Comments

  1. angiesrecipes says

    January 7, 2020 at 10:34 PM

    wow I am drooling over that creamy truffle sauce! The pasta must have tasted amazingly delicious, Roz.

    Reply
    • Roz says

      January 8, 2020 at 4:06 AM

      Thank you Angie; it’s a keeper, but one certainly must eat it in moderation! I hope that your new year has started off ‘deliciously’!

      Reply
  2. 2 Sisters Recipes says

    January 8, 2020 at 9:37 AM

    What an amazing dish – who doesn’t like truffles ? We adore a pasta dish with truffles and this is a great recipe, thanks Roz! Buon Anno 2020!! Lovely new design on your blog too! Also, I added one of your smoothies to our post today! Have a wonderful day!
    xo Anna and Liz

    Reply
    • Roz says

      January 9, 2020 at 5:29 AM

      Thank you for your kindness Anna and Liz! And a big Buon Anno 2020 to you as well! I’m looking forward to all your recipes! Thank you for including my smoothie, what an honor for me to be recognized by the two of you!
      Ciao,
      Roz xo

      Reply
  3. Judee says

    January 9, 2020 at 6:37 PM

    Roz,
    I can only imagine how delicious this pasta dish must taste. Your photos are enticing and your description of the pasta dish has me drooling. Happy New Year

    Reply
    • Roz says

      January 19, 2020 at 2:30 PM

      Hi Judee!
      So nice to hear from you! I hope that life is being good to you in 2020! Love that cauliflower rice recipe that you just posted!
      Ciao,
      Roz

      Reply
  4. Liz says

    January 11, 2020 at 6:52 AM

    Wow, so simple yet decadent and absolutely delicious! This pasta would be such a treat. I’d be happy to eat Bill’s share of truffles….I’m sure he’d still enjoy the penne in the luscious pasta sauce! xo

    Reply
  5. mjskitchen says

    January 15, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    I’ve never cooked with truffles before, but you have inspired me to give it a go with this recipe It certainly does look like one of those dishes that you just eat it out of the skillet and that it never makes it to the plate. 🙂

    Reply
  6. Karen (Back Road Journal) says

    January 19, 2020 at 11:28 AM

    Truffles…such a delicacy and in your pasta dish, absolutely delicious.

    Reply
  7. Mary-Anne says

    January 20, 2020 at 6:02 PM

    I was blessed to visit Tuscany last October with my family. October is truffle season– what a treat! All the restaurants offered truffle specials. I didn’t know what I was missing until this trip. If only we had truffle season in New England.

    Reply

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