Pasta with cream truffle sauce and fresh mushrooms
4 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Flour * | 
| 1 | large | Egg | 
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Mushrooms, button, chopped | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Puree, shallot ** | 
| 1 | teaspoon | Peppercorns, crushed | 
| 2 | eaches | Bay leaves | 
| 1 | cup | Wine, white | 
| 4 | tablespoons | Mushrooms, cepes, sliced | 
| 4 | tablespoons | Mushrooms, Shitake, sliced | 
| 1 | teaspoon | Pepper, white | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Water | 
| 2 | tablespoons | Oil, olive | 
| 2 | cups | Stock, chicken | 
| 1 | cup | Cream, heavy | 
| ½ | cup | Wine, Madeira | 
| 4 | tablespoons | Truffles, finely chopped | 
| Salt (to taste) | ||
| Pepper (to taste) | ||
| 4 | tablespoons | Mushrooms, Chanterelle, sliced | 
| 1 | tablespoon | Oil, olive | 
Directions
PASTA
SAUCE
ASSEMBLY
* The flour used for this pasta recipe is made up of 70% semolina, and 30% of either all-purpose, rice, or buckwheat flours. 
** See recipe for Shallot Puree. 
For the Pasta: ==============
Place your flour on a work space.  Add the egg, olive oil, water, salt and pepper.  Mix and roll the dough into a ball, then continue working by hand until smooth and consistent.  Dust the dough lightly with flour. Run the dough through a pasta machine to form noodles.
Dust with flour and reserve.
For the Sauce: ==============
Melt the butter in a saute pan.  Add the mushrooms, shallot puree, peppercorns, and bay leaves.  Reduce the mixture over high heat for about 2 minutes.
Add chicken stock and continue cooking over medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add cream, bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce by one-third and make it a smooth consistency.  Adjust the seasoning. 
In another saute pan, add Madeira wine to 3 tablespoons of truffles. Reduce over high heat for 2 to 3 minutes. 
Strain the cream sauce into the truffles and wine, then reduce it to a smooth consistency.
To Assemble: ============
Cook the pasta in plain boiling water, then drain.  In a saute pan, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of chopped truffles, salt, and pepper.  Add pasta to the saute pan. 
Add a little cream truffle sauce and heat. 
In another saute pan, saute 1 tablespoon sliced cepes, 1 tablespoon sliced shitake and 1 tablespoon of sliced chanterelle mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of olive oil.  Strain. 
To serve, ladle some of the sauce onto a serving plate, swirl pasta in the center and garnish with a quarter of the sauteed mushrooms.  Top with chopped truffles. 
Source:  Great Chefs of San Francisco, Avon Books, 1984 Chef:   Masataka Kobayashi, Masa's, Vintage Court Hotel, :       San Francisco, CA
From: Rob Stewart                     Date: 09-08-94