'Special' pasta sauce for homemade pasta

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We've friends round at the weekend so am going to dust off the pasta machine (mainly to prove to DH it's not the white elephant he said it would be!!)

It'll be tagliatelle - I've previously made ravioli with but won't have the tine for the extra faff on this occasion.

I personally like a 'coating' sauce with fresh pasta but DH likes a lot of sauce. I want something a little darker different to my usual tomato or creamy mushroom sauce (but don't mind 'special' variations on these). Special doesn't necessarily have to be complicated!

No dietary requirements except one of the guests doesn't eat lobster (not that I'd be serving lobster anyway!!)

Yes, I can Google, but I would appreciate tried and tested please.

I was also going to suggest some form of ragu, I love a beef shin one if you could find time to make it in advance. Also love the recipe @AtleastitsnotMonday shared and highly recommend trying it. There was a fab pasta thread on here recently that may be worth having a read through, here

One of the best pasta dishes I ever had was parpadelle and wild boar ragu in Italy, it was so amazing I don't think I dare try to replicate it!!

Thanks again for all the suggestions

Would this work without the chickpeas? I'd cook down the sauce a bit more than the recipe suggests so it'll coat the pasta better

Prawn and squid nduja sauce

I'd do Ragù di cinghiale (Wild Boar Ragu in English).

This is an Italian cooking website but they have an English option for the recipe
https://www.giallozafferano.com/recipes/Wild-boar-ragu.html

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Nothing fancy but bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, with red wine plus some herbs, garlic & onions amounts to a lovely pasta sauce and takes about 15 minutes!