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Red Onion and Pine Nut Linguine

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Serves: 2

An everyday staple, onions become the star ingredient in chef and food stylist Esther Clark’s Red Onion and Pine Nut Linguine. Given time to cook down and caramelise, the onions become sweet and sticky, while adding sumac – a lemony spice – and a few food cupboard ingredients transforms them into a comforting, super - satisfying pasta dish. The recipe works with brown onions too, if that’s what you have to hand.
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Ingredients

  • 20g pine nuts
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 3 red onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 tsp sumac, plus a pinch (optional)
  • 200g linguine (or use spaghetti)
  • 40g parmesan, finely grated (or vegetarian Italian hard cheese), plus extra shavings to serve
  • ½ small bunch flat-leaf parsley

Method

Step 1

Toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan over a medium heat for 3 mins, tossing regularly until golden, then immediately tip into a bowl to cool. Set aside.

Step 2

Heat the oil and butter in a large frying pan over a medium-low heat. Add the onions and a pinch of salt and fry for 20 mins or until they’re sticky and golden. Add the sumac and cook for 1 min more.

Step 3

Meanwhile, cook the linguine in a large pan of boiling salted water until al dente, then drain, reserving around 100ml of the starchy cooking water.

Step 4

Over a low heat, toss the drained linguine with the caramelised onions, 50ml of the reserved cooking water and the parmesan, until well combined; add an extra splash of the cooking water if it seems dry. Season to taste and toss through the parsley. Serve in bowls topped with the pine nuts, parmesan shavings and an extra pinch of sumac, if you like.

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