Tagliolini with Cotechino and Tomato sauce

INGREDIENTS
3 small Cotechini from Salumificio Marchisio
1 cup of thick tomato sauce
1 carrot
2 garlic cloves
4 walnuts
4 juniper berries
4 cloves
1 glass red wine
Olive oil, salt and pepper

METHOD

1. Prick Marchisio cotechini with a fork and boil them for few minutes in hot water.
2. Mince the carrot with garlic and walnuts, add juniper berries and cloves and fry over low heat with some olive oil.
3. Peel cotechini and add them in the saucepan, fry them for a few minutes then squash them to pieces with a fork.
4. Simmer with red wine and cook for some minutes.
5. Add tomato sauce, stir from time to time and cook over low heat.
6. Taste the sauce and add salt and pepper if needed, continue cooking the sauce until almost thick: the more it cooks the more it gains fragrance and taste.
7. Prepare tagliolini (a kind of fresh pasta) or another pasta you like and mix it with the sauce you just made.

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