Pappardelle, Butternut & Sausage
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Hand-Cut Pappardelle, Butternut Squash Cream, Italian Sausage, Brown Sage Butter.
Kirsty's quarter-final main: hand-cut pappardelle in a butternut squash cream with Italian sausage, finished with a brown sage butter and stracciatella on top. Pappardelle are thick, belt-like ribbons of noodles - not easy to get right. The judges wanted pasta about an inch wide and very thin. The roasting of the butternut squash gives a sweetness that plays against the brown butter.
Tony Rodd: this is fantastic pasta - such a thin pappardelle; she has paid so much attention to seasoning - he can even pick out nutmeg.
Simon Wood: mix it all together and the balance of flavour is absolutely outstanding.
Tony Rodd again: individually the components have really strong flavours, and when you put them all together they sing - great pasta work.
Anna: the sage butter is absolutely spot-on. Both the dining room and the judges crowned Kirsty cook of the day.
