What Can I Do With Chocolate Pasta? Good Questions

Q: My mother in law brought back some chocolate pasta from a recent trip to Italy. I have no idea what to do with it.

Any suggestions?

Sent by Katie

Editor: Katie, I'm intrigued by this recipe for chocolate pasta with Irish cream sauce:

• Get the recipe: Chocolate Pasta at Poet in the Pantry

Readers, what would you do with chocolate pasta?

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Comments (13)

I see in the link above that the author felt it was OTT to make a sweet dish with it, so maybe something savoury, like beef strips/cubes and a hint of chilli?

I like the combination of coarse salt and chocolate, so maybe keep it plain with butter and sprinkled salt.

One of the best dishes I have ever eaten in Philadelphia is at Le Virtu, a chocolate ravioli with a lemon ricotta filling and a butter/sage sauce. I agree with carinb, love sweet and salt and would mimic the Le Virtu recipe if I didn't fear I would absolutely butcher one of the greatest pastas to grace my palate.

At a visit to Felidia's in NYC I had an excellent chocolate papardelle with a ragu of wild boar!

My favorite way to eat chocolate pasta is to make a cream sauce, toss is with peas and prosciutto. Really simple but crazy good. Had it at a restaurant and craved it for a long time after til I finally just made it myself.

I wonder if a red sauce made of reduced balsamic vinegar and strawberries would work... a little basil and some good ricotta on top would be a nice touch and a fun visual play on your typical spaghetti.

I think something with smoky chiles would pair well with chocolate pasta. Maybe a quick tomato sauce with some chile en adobo? Or some smoky paprika?

I agree with karenenen: I once had a strawberry-balsamic-oreo cookie ice cream that was delicious and can only assume that combo would translate well over to chocolate pasta.

And Kris0218 has a good suggestion with the chiles, maybe with some cinnamon too!

And I think a sweet curry-coconut sauce with cashews would be good.

Was just going to say kugel :)

I'd jump on the chocolate and bacon trend and add some bacon crumbles and maybe some sweet scallops with a little chili pepper infused olive oil.

I just saw this recipe at Heather Christo Cooks - looks delicious!

I made chocolate pasta once. The only thing I liked with it was to mix the cooked pasta with raspberry jam and whipped cream. Made a decent dessert but in the end I wound up tossing most of it as unusable.

Oo, I used to get cocao ravioli stuffed with butternut squash in a sage brown butter sauce. I'll bet the squash/sage combo would work well with any choco-pasta.