Product: Schär Gluten-Free Tagliatelle – $3.99+
Gluten-free foods have come a long, long way.
From breads, to crackers, to cookies, to pastas, these foods are no longer the tasteless, strange items they once were. In fact, some companies set out to go above and beyond when it comes to the taste and the look of their food. This is definitely something that Schär accomplishes with every one of it’s products.
I can declare that without worry…because I have sampled quite a few of their items and have been beyond pleased each time.
For my holiday dinner party, I was cooking up a delicious pasta in a white truffle butter sauce. Since it was a creamy sauce, I decided to pair it with a wider, heartier noodle than your average spaghetti or linguini noodle. The challenge, then, was finding something to pair with the sauce that was also gluten-free.
Thankfully, where most gluten-free pasta are limited to the most common cuts of noodle (spaghetti, fusilli, penne, lasagna), Schär provides gluten-free pasta connoisseurs with other options as well. One of which is the wider pasta noodle – Tagliatelle.
Because of the number of guests, I ended up cooking up two boxes of the Tagliatelle, and it did wonderfully. Nothing could be easier. Season and boil water. Add pasta. Stir. Allow to cook for 8 minutes in boiling water. Drain. Yes…it really is that simple. And the noodles that emerge from the hot water taste like regular, wheat noodles. The texture is fantastic. Every guest (as I am the only gluten-free one among them) couldn’t tell it was gluten-free. They weren’t surprised, since I was the chef, but they all said it tasted just like the regular stuff. That’s high praise coming from some pretty hearty pasta eaters!
After cooking the noodles to the perfect al dente, I added them to the pan on the stove top with the white truffle butter sauce I had prepared while the noodles were cooking. They mixed and were finished off in the pan, then plated, topped with some fresh chives and thinly shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano.
It was the perfect meal that night. Nobody ate too much. Everyone cleaned their plates. And we all were able to enjoy a delicious, gluten-free pasta meal, have great conversation, and enjoy the holidays. Nothing could be better than that.
I owe a lot of thanks to the people at Schär, for continuing to produce amazing gluten-free products. When pasta is so amazing that no one even guesses that it’s gluten-free…then there is magic in the product. And I am definitely enchanted by the products that this amazing company continues to offer to those who can no longer tolerate gluten.
I’m raising a pasta-filled fork to the geniuses at Schär who have made me fall in love with Italian cooking again…a whole new gluten-free way.
The Celiathlete 