Casarecce con Sugo di Salsiccia e Broccolo Rabe Campano
Napoli, Campania
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Origin
Campania — Napoli e Caserta province
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Description
Campania's peasant pasta — casarecce (S-shaped twisted tubes) with a sauce of Napoli pork sausage (salsiccia napoletana) crumbled and cooked down with cime di rapa (broccoli rabe, rapini) and a little Pecorino. The bitterness of the rapini against the fat and fennel sweetness of the Napoli sausage is one of the great flavour combinations of southern Italian cooking. The casarecce's twisted shape holds the crumbled sausage and rapini in its cavities.
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The Thread
—The same rapini (cime di rapa) + pasta combination — Puglia pairs it with anchovy where Campania pairs it with sausage; both are southern Italian expressions of bitter brassica + flavour fat Pugliese
—Crumbled pork sausage with broccoli-family vegetable over pasta — the southern Italian template of fennel-pork with bitter greens in a pasta sauce Sicilian
—Short pasta with pork sausage (botifarra) and bitter greens — Catalan and Campanian traditions share the sausage-bitter green pasta combination Spanish · Catalan
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Flavour Context
Fennel-sweet pork sausage, bitter-grassy rapini, sharp Pecorino, pasta curves — the defining southern Italian bitter-sweet-fat tension in a single bowl
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