Pasta with Sausage and Black Figs

Name: Pasta with Sausage and Black Figs
Cook time: 1/2 hour
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Leek 1 large: white part only; finely sliced Olive oil: 3 tablespoons Sweet sausage: 2 links Red wine: 1 cup Black figs: 5 large Pasta; any short shape: 1 pound Grana padano or other aged cheese: to taste; grated or shaved

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Francine Segan | Wed, 06/01/2022 - 06:49

Photo courtesy of Francine Segan.

Difficulty Level

Low

Cooking Time

1/2 hour

Cost

Medium

Figs, with their jam-like sweetness, add pizzazz to the sausage, building a smoky, and deeply satisfying pasta dish. This recipe is from Caneva, a community in Friuli Venezia Giulia, a region in northern Italy renowned for its delicious black figs, figo moro.

The area’s climate combined with the soil’s particular minerality creates one of Italy’s most highly sought-after figs, rich in flavor and with a soft, delicious skin. The figs are characterized by their excepti

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