Saffron tagliatelle with spiced butter

Name: Saffron tagliatelle with spiced butter
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: ½ tsp ground turmeric; 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp chilli flakes; black pepper; 1 tsp ground coriander; 1 tsp cayenne pepper; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp sweet paprika; 4 tbsp boiling water; 2 tsp saffron threads; 1 tsp ground ginger; 4 medium free-range eggs; 80 g pine nuts, toasted and roughly chopped; 200 g butter; 4 tbsp olive oil; 4 tbsp roughly chopped parsley; 4 tbsp roughly chopped mint; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 440 g ‘00’ pasta flour, plus extra for rolling; 8 shallots, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Plenty

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2010

About

Counterintuitive as this combination of pasta with Moroccan-style butter may seem, it is absolutely delicious and I am sure that once tried you’ll keep on coming back to it. Instead of home-made you can go for a good variety of dried pasta and add a decent pinch of saffron threads to the cooking water.

Ingredients

2 tsp saffron threads
4 tbsp boiling water
4 medium fr

Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Place the saffron in a small bowl with the boiling water and leave to infuse for at least 10 minutes. Then add the eggs and oil and beat to mix. Place the flour and turmeric in the bowl of a food processor and add the saffron mix. Blend until a crumbly dough is formed. You may need a little more oil or flour to adjust the dough to the required consistency – neither sticky nor very dry.