How To Make The Pasta Boscaiola That Will Bring You To Tears

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

pancetta

💰Cheaper: bacon

Bacon is more widely available and less expensive.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

Nutritional yeast provides a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

white wine

💰Cheaper: chicken broth

Chicken broth adds flavor without the cost of wine.

Cut the skin off the sausage (optional) and crush it with a fork.

Heat extra virgin olive oil in a pan.

Add the crushed sausage to the pan and break it up as it cooks.

Crush 5 cloves of garlic and add to the pan with the sausage.

Add mushrooms to the pan and let them cook down.

Add a little bit of parsley to the pan.

Season with salt and pepper.

Pour in a little bit of white wine and let it evaporate.

Boil water in a large pot and add salt for cooking the pasta.

Once the water boils, add 500 grams of semolina pasta and cook for about 7-8 minutes.

Reserve about half a mug of pasta water before draining the pasta.

Mix the drained pasta with the sausage and mushroom mixture in the pan.

Add the reserved pasta water to the pan and cook for another minute.

Stir in Marscapone cheese until it melts into the sauce.

Add Pecorino Romano cheese and more parsley, mixing everything together.

Serve the pasta with sauce on top.

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