A refined Italian paccheri recipe with silky fava bean cream, sweet red prawns, lemon zest and cool stracciatella.

Paccheri alla Norma al Forno (Italian Sicilian Baked Paccheri alla Norma) There are two ways to eat Norma in Sicily. One is the weekday plate, tossed in the pan and carried to the table while the eggplant is still slick with oil. The other goes into the oven, and it is the one families make when there are more people than chairs: large paccheri, fried eggplant, a tomato sauce cooked down further than a pan version needs, ricotta salata worked through the whole dish rather tha

Paccheri con Pesce Spada, Pistacchio, Melanzane e Ricotta Affumicata (Italian Paccheri with Swordfish, Pistachio, Eggplant and Smoked Ricotta) This is a Sicilian plate built from four things the island does better than anywhere else: swordfish out of the Strait of Messina, eggplant that arrived with the Arabs and never left, pistachios grown on the lava of Etna, and a hard smoked ricotta from the Nebrodi that is grated over the top like a seasoning rather than stirred in like