Pici Alla Boscaiola (Handmade Pasta with Mushrooms and Sausage)

Name: Pici Alla Boscaiola (Handmade Pasta with Mushrooms and Sausage)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ½ ounce, dried porcini mushrooms, rinsed and chopped fine; ½ cup, boiling water; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; ½ , onion, chopped fine; ¾ teaspoon, table salt; Pinch , red pepper flakes; 4 ounces, cremini mushrooms, trimmed and chopped; ½ cup, water; ½ cup, dry white wine; 8 ounces, sweet Italian sausage, casings removed, meat mashed with fork; ½ cup, heavy cream; 1 recipe cooked, recipe (including reserved pasta water); ¼ cup, chopped fresh parsley, divided

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2023

For more than a millennium, Tuscan cooks have made pici—long, delectably chewy strands of pasta—using just their hands. You can too.

SERVES4

TIME30 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pici (pronounced “PEE-chee,” or sometimes “PEE-shee”), are made of long, wonderfully chewy strands that have been rolled out on Tuscan tables since Etruscan times. Pici are inherently frugal too and simple to make. Just mix together a dough...

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