Rigatoni with Radicchio

Ingredients

• Rigatoni Pasta

• 1 head of Radicchio

• 1 bunch of parsley

• 1 lemon

• 1 cup of breadcrumbs

• pancetta or bacon

• 1/2 cup grated pecorino cheese

• 3 cloves of garlic cloves

• 5 tablespoon of olive oil

Instructions

1. Boil the rigatoni pasta in water with salt

2. Fry the panccetta or bacon until cooked; chop into small pieces

3. Slice radicchio finely; chop parsley finely

4. Heat the olive oil in a pan and sauté garlic. After sauté the radicchio in the olive oil until barely wilted

5. Once the pasta has boiled for 30 minutes, strain and add to a bowl; save some of the starchy water to add to the pasta after

6. While still warm in a bowl, add radicchio and olive oil and cheese. Add 1/4 cup of starchy water used to cook the pasta noodles and mix. Add lemon juice and lemon zest and half of the amount of bacon, parsley and breadcrumbs and mix.

7. Top the rest of the bacon, parsley and breadcrumbs on the pasta and serve!

All you need is pasta, radicchio, parsley, lemon, bread crumbs, bacon and cheese!

Parsley and lemon add so much flavor to a pasta!

We had our sous-chef JJ help us in the kitchen!

Mangia!