Name: Spaghettini con i porri (Thin spaghetti with leeks)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 kg/2 lb 4 oz leeks (white part only), sliced into very thin rings and washed thoroughly; 2 tbsp olive oil; 30 g/1 oz/2 tbsp unsalted butter; 4 tbsp double (heavy) cream; 350 g/12 oz spaghettini (thin spaghetti); 125 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup vegetable or chicken stock; 1 tsp curry powder; 100 g/3½ oz Parmesan cheese, grated

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

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Anna Del Conte on Pasta

By Anna Del Conte

Published 2015

About

I use ready-made curry powder for this sauce since it is not worth blending the spices from scratch for such a small amount. Keep the green parts of the leeks to make soup.

Ingredients

30 g/1 oz/2 tbsp unsalted butter
2 tbsp

Method

In a large frying pan, heat half the butter and the oil. Add the leeks, a little salt and the curry powder and sauté gently for 2 minutes. Now add half the stock and cook, covered, over very low heat for about 30 minutes, adding a little more stock whenever necessary, so that the leeks are always cooking in some liquid. At the end the leeks should have collapsed to a mushy consistency. Taste an