Unusual Ingredient Transforms Classic Pasta
Social media user homamino shared an intriguing recipe featuring a highly unusual ingredient: desert truffles, known locally in the Middle East as kamah or Fagaa (فقع او كماء).
These rare fungi are noted for appearing after lightning strikes on desert sands. In this preparation, they are combined with standard pasta components to create a unique dish.
Desert Truffle Tagliatelle Recipe Details
The recipe, labeled ‘Dream pasta alert,’ combines the rare truffles with mushrooms and potatoes (implied via the context of desert truffles but not explicitly listed as an ingredient in the provided list). The required ingredients for the homamino recipe are:
- 400 g tagliatelle
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 30 g butter
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely minced
- 250 g brown mushrooms (porcini or similar), sliced
- 100 g desert truffles frozen then sliced
- 15 g dried mushrooms
- 200 ml boiling water
- 200 ml crème fraîche
- 2–3 sprigs fresh thyme
- Freshly grated nutmeg
- Salt & black pepper
- Parmesan, finely grated (to serve)
homamino concluded the post by asking followers if they had ever tried this combination before.
