Rosies McKean’s Survival Essentials

Ever wondered what a Pasta Queen cant live without? The Rosie McKean Survival Essentials Box is a great way to load up your store cupboard from which to make a myriad of tasty, hearty, quick and simple dishes, or deploy to spruce a midweek meal. This is full of wonderful, authentic and exclusive to us, Italian everyday products. A must.

This is a big box of food, with kilo of pasta, guanciale, dried legumes and polenta. Makes between 15-20 portions of food. Make sure to check out Rosie’s instagram page for some exciting and inspiring dishes!

• 250g Dried Black Lentils (Known as the black pearls of the Mediterranean, these are super nutritious, tasty, and healthy)
• 250g Leonforte Antique Dried Chickpeas
• 500G Polenta Instant Gialla (Simple, yet delicious yellow polenta)
• Bulb of Garlic
• 150g Dried Chillis
• x2 Tropea/Umbrian Onion (Dependant on Market Availability) (These are super sweet onions, perfect raw in salds, or cooked long and slow for pasta, pizza, risotto or to go with meat and fish)
• x2 Carrots
• 1 Stick of Celery
• 1.4kg  Maletti Guanciale (Cured pig cheek, ideal for Carbonara or Gricia)
• 1litre Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 500g Paccheri Bronzo Riscossa (Paccheri is our pasta shape of the year and perfect with most sauces, or even baked)
• 500g Spaghetti Riscossa
• 800g Casa Marazzo Whole Tinned Tomatoes (Tomatoes grown next to Vesuvius. Better than Nonna’s)
• 300g Grana Padano