Danilo Cortellini’s Pasta Box

Fancy dining like the Italian ambassador tonight? Then you need to order Danilo Cortellini’s exclusive pasta box to make this stunning dish from his home region of Abruzzo. With enough ingredients to make this dish over and over again, or hone your pasta making skills, this is a brilliant way to create perfect pasta!

Check out Danilos instagram feed to find out how you can replicate the dishes he makes at the Italian Embassy.

This box will roughly make 10 portions, but maybe even a few more.

• 6 Italian eggs
• 800g Casa Marazzo Whole Tinned Tomatoes (Grown on the slopes of Vesuvius, the best tinned tomatoes we have found)
• 1kg Petra 00 Pasta Flour (The pasta flour of the professionals and the chefs to ambassadors)
• 500ml Eleusi Olive Oil (One of the oldest Calabrian olives oils. Smooth, silky, warm and fruity)
• 250g Smoked Ricotta Cheese (Take ricotta, dry it, salt it and smoke it. Say hello to your new “go-to” favourite cheese)
• 1 Medium White Onion
• 1 Garlic Bulb
• 1 Bunch of Basil
• 100g Dried Marjoram
• 1 Red Chilli