Name: Garganelli Mare e Monti (Penne with Seafood and Mushrooms)
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: Serves 4 as a first course, or 3 as a main course
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter; 20 g (¾ oz) dried porcini; 50 g (2 oz) chestnut mushrooms, sliced; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley; 4 scallops; 300 g (10 oz) penne; 2 garlic cloves, lightly crushed with the flat of a knife; 250 g (8 oz) shelled prawns; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a first course

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 35

Appears in

Pasta-lover's Cookbook

By Anna Del Conte

Published 1994

About

Garganelli are a kind of home-made pasta from Romagna in northern Italy. They are similar in shape to penne but, being home-made, they are different in flavour. In this recipe they come with a sauce made with seafood and mushrooms, hence its Italian name, which means ‘sea and mountains’.

Ingredients

20 g (¾ oz) dried porcini
50 g (2

Method

Soak the porcini in very hot water for 1 hour.
Drain, reserving the liquid, and rinse the porcini under cold water. Dry them thoroughly and slice the larger ones. Filter the porcini liquid through a sieve lined with muslin and reserve it.
Heat the butter, oil, half the parsley and the garlic in a large frying-pan. When the aroma of the garlic begins to r

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