Fettuccine with Artichokes

Name: Fettuccine with Artichokes (Fettuccine ai Carciofi)
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4 as a main course or 6 as part of a multicourse Italian meal
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter; ½ medium yellow onion; Salt; 1 lemon; 3 large or 4 small to medium artichokes; 10 to 12 sprigs flat-leaf Italian parsley; 1 cup heavy cream; Egg Pasta of Emilia Romagna, cut into fettuccine, or 9 ounces dried egg fettuccine

Fettuccine ai Carciofi

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

How to Cook Italian

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2005

About

I used to avoid making artichoke pasta sauces because I found artichokes to be too mild to adequately season pasta. Then I discovered the trick to more intensely flavor artichoke sauces: Simmer the artichoke trimmings and use the resulting water to make the sauce.

Ingredients

1 lemon
3 large or 4 small to medium artichokes
Salt

Method

Cut the lemon in half. Trim the artichokes, rubbing the cut parts with a lemon half. Save the artichoke tops. Squeeze the juice from the remaining lemon half into a medium bowl and fill the bowl halfway with water. Cut the trimmed artichokes lengthwise in half, thinly slice, and put them in the lemon water. Put the reserved artichoke t