Baked Vodka Pasta, N’duja, Stracciatella - the ultimate pasta bake 🔥

Home Cooking Sessions: Baked Vodka Pasta with N’duja and Stracciatella. Full recipe below! 👇🏽🔥 - 1. Start with the vodka sauce. There are a lots of good methods and I often play around with the recipe, using different types of tomato, from purée to passata to fresh - here though, I use purée 2. Lace a pan with EV olive oil and add in one very finely minced shallot, 2 cloves finely minced garlic, 1 halved red chilli 3. Bring up to med heat and sauté 2-3 mins, then add in a pinch of peperoncino, sea salt, black pepp and sauté further minute 4. Add in a bunch of fresh basil + 3-4tbsp tomato paste - cook ~1 min 5. Deglaze with 1.5 shots of vodka and cook out till almost evaporated, then add 200ml double (whipping) cream and mix to combine - adjust amount of cream depending how strong you want the sauce to taste (I add till it turns the perfect orangey-pink) 6. Add 1.5tbsp mascarpone and meld till incorporated, then season with sea salt, 1tsp sugar + any additional heat as needed. Remove basil and set 2 ladles of sauce aside 7. Add your Lumache rigate to salted boiling water, once al dente, add to the sauce + a large ladle of pasta water. Leave to finish cooking 1-2 mins so sauce starts to thicken, then grate in some parmigiano reggiano and toss till combined 8. Add a little reserved sauce to a baking tray, followed by a few torn pieces of good quality spicy n’duja and the sauced pasta 9. Top with more N’duja + a little olive oil, then throw under the grill to bake and crisp up the top ~4-5 mins 10. Once nicely charred, remove from oven and top with stracciatella, peperoncino, fresh basil and a little more basil 11. To pair, an ice cold negroni is perfect - 30ml each gin, Campari & vermouth rosso - This is a fire recipe. The flavours are super rich and spicy. It’s difficult to stop eating once you start! Saw the guys over at @ondapastabar doing this and decided to put my own spin on it - delicious #notoriousfoodie 🙅🏽‍♂️ - - - - - #vodkapasta #easyrecipe #easyrecipes #pastalover #recipe #recipes #reels #homecooking #homemade #imadethis #nduja #spicyfusili #pastafresca #datenight #comfortfood