Conchigliette pasta with zucchini, speck and saffron

An easy summer dish elaborated by Chef Matteo Giudici that we pair with a Romagna Albana Secco I Croppi 2020 - Celli.

Ingredients for 4 people:

380g conchigliette pasta, ½ a leek, 30g butter, 20 saffron pistils and a packet of ground saffron, 2 medium-size zucchini, 50g speck cut julienne style, 30g grated percorino, salt and pepper as desired.

Directions:

Put the butter in a large pan and melt it. Add the leek that has been cut julienne style and let it stauté at a low heat for ten or so minutes, until they become soft. Add a little water or vegetable broth to help cook.

Add the green part of the zucchini that have been cut into broad short strips and let them sauté for 3-4 minutes until they are cooked yet still crunchy.

Add the saffron and some salt and pepper as desired.

Boil the pasta in abundant salted water and when they are two minutes from being done add the shell pasta to the pan with the sauce and mix together gently along with a knob of cold. At the end add the speck that has been cut julienne style.

When the pasta is cooked, add the grated pecorino and, if needed, some of the pasta water to make it creamier.

Wine to pair:

(edited by Stefania Vinciguerra)

Romagna Albana Secco I Croppi 2020 Celli

Light golden yellow color. Aromas of ripe fruits, medlar, yellow plums, then honey, white flowers, hints of saffron. Very typical taste, savory, warm, tense, great body, enveloping with a quite long finish.

Production area: Bertinoro in Romagna, from Fratta and Maestrina vineyards, facing east-southeast and north-northeast and planted on clay-loamy soil with good presence of active limestone.

Grape variety: 100% Albana, compadrona clone. Planting density 3000-5000 vines per ha, double Guyot training system. Production 85 q/ha. 

Aging: stainless steel. 

Organic wine: controlled operator no. E147, control body IT-BIO-009.

Alcohol content: 13.70% vol.

Serving temperature: 8°C.

Recommended food pairings: first courses and grilled fish, white meat.