{"id":133,"date":"2009-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-02-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:00:00","slug":"pappardelle-with-mushroom-and-eggplant-ragu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/2009\/02\/pappardelle-with-mushroom-and-eggplant-ragu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pappardelle with mushroom and eggplant ragu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I know ragu is traditionally a meat-based sauce but I think these mushrooms are ‘meaty’ enough to consider this sauce a ragu. Combined with homemade semolina pappardelle, this was a home run hit for dinner. My sauce started with a combination of baby portobello and button mushrooms.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They were halved and sliced.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>I also cubed up a whole eggplant for this dish.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Of course you can’t have a pasta sauce without garlic and onions!<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>First the onions and the mushrooms were cooked down until softened and tender. Then the garlic was added to the pan.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>The eggplant was combined with the cooked onions and mushrooms.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Everything was saut\u00e9ed until the eggplant began to soften.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A bit of red wine was added to the pan.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>And a can of tomato paste was stirred into the sauce.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>The ragu was covered and cooked down until the eggplant dissolved and the sauce was rich and delicious. A little water was added during the cooking to keep the sauce from getting to dry.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Meanwhile, a pasta dough made from all purpose flour, semolina flour and eggs was prepared and rolled out into sheets using my pasta roller.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>The pappardelle was cut by hand into wide noodles.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>The noodles were boiled until al dente and tossed with the ragu. Finally I topped it off with some parmigiano reggiano.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I know ragu is traditionally a meat-based sauce but I think these mushrooms are ‘meaty’ enough to consider this sauce a ragu. Combined with homemade semolina pappardelle, this was a home run hit for dinner. My sauce started with a combination of baby portobello and button mushrooms. They were halved and sliced. I also cubed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,155],"tags":[60,54,115,219],"class_list":{"0":"post-133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-pasta","7":"category-vegetarian","8":"tag-eggplant","9":"tag-mushroom","10":"tag-pappardelle","11":"tag-ragu","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}