Pasta Sfoglia al Borragine o Agli Spinach

Green Pasta Flavored with Borage or Spinach

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    2 pounds

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

  • About

While most Italians like their green pasta flavored with spinach, Ligurians favor the distinct flavor of borage, which they find goes better with some of the sauces they use. I would encourage you to follow their lead and make sfoglia with borage if it is available to you, but spinach pasta is also very good, and will pair well with certain sauces: pesto bianco, other nut sauces, vegetable sauces, meat sauces, and mushroom sauces. It does not, in my experience, marry well with