So after few months of trying I have mastered my own special recipe for home made pasta!
After doing tagliatelle for a while, my dear friends decided to make my life easier and more exiting and buy for me (as birthday gift) the pasta accessory for my kitchen aid robot so... here I am!
I previously made tagliatelle with the traditional italian method that you can find here
But today I am presenting my second version of my home made egg free pasta!
Making your own pasta will save you time and money, will be 10 times more tasty and fun but moreover (the things that matter the most to me right now) the world!
Just think of all that amount of plastic packaging that we produce just by buying pasta from the shops!
So...are you ready to fly to Italy with me...again?
Doses for 1 kg of pasta
(serving at least 10 portions)
INGREDIENTS
- 800 g semolina flour ( ideal) or strong white flour
- flour to manipulate dough and pasta (100-150 g might be necessary)
- 400 mls of water
- 15g salt
-optional to make it more yellowish ( two teaspoon of turmeric)
EQUIPMENTS
- Kitchen robot ( or strong hands to manipulate the dough)
- Kitchen robot adjunct for pasta making
( or follow below in suggestions for how to make your own pasta or check our previous recipe! )
PROCEDURE to make the pasta
1)Let's start by putting all the flour in the kitchen robot or in a bowl and add all the salt. Mix well
2) Add the water.
If you are using semolina, the dough is already yellow, if not it will be quite pale.
therefore (Optionally) you can add two teaspoons of turmeric powder to the hot water (to make it more yellowish, to resemble the colour of the typical fresh pasta!)
3) Mix well with the robot for about 5-6 minutes until all the flour is absorbed by the dough and the dough is smooth and not too sticky
( if the dough stick to the bowl and remain stick to the bottom of the bowl and robot arm, continue mixing and eventually add a bit of flour )
4) Take the dough out of the robot, put it on a floured surface and mix it by hand a couple of times. Make a bown and cut it in small pieces approximately 7-10 pieces.
5) make some small shapes roll dough with your hands ( about 3 to 5 cm based on your kitchen robot shape and size ) that will be able to fit into your pasta maker adjunct
6) fit the shape of pasta adjunct you want to make ( in my casa I made rigatoni that are a big version of the maccheroni) then turn on the machine and let it do the magic for you!!
N.B: The dough can be too"sticky" or wet. If this is the case the pasta will not come out of the machine nicely as they should, will be very sticky and when you cut it they will stick all together. So you can add more flour to the dough and re do it, it will be fine the second time😁
Now....
7) Put the pasta to dry. Put some flour on a tray and put your pasta on it or on a floured kitchen surface. Let it to dry for at least over night.
If you want to keep the pasta in your cupboard for weeks you will have to dry it properly..
...How do to it?
Follow below!
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PROCEDURE to dry the pasta in a oven
1) Lye the pasta on a oven tray covered with baking paper or kitchen roll and abundant flour.
2) cover the pasta with extra flour ( not too much )
3) Turn on the oven light and the oven fan ( do not turn on the temperature of the oven or you will make bread sticks instead of dry pasta!!)
4) leave it in the oven for approximately two hours then turn the pasta on the other side ( the bottom part will be still humid while the top part will result already dry)
5) leave it for a minimum of 4 hours but if you have more time and dedication, you can keep turning the pasta every hour to make sure they are properly dry.
The pasta is now ready to go into the containers and can stay up to a month in a dry and dark place ( away from heat and humidity ).
This is my pasta!
Let me know how it is yours!!
SUGGESTIONS
-You can eat the pasta right away after you made it. Just make sure to cover it with loads of flour while you are preparing the boiling water as it will easily stick together. Cooking time for the pasta ( if you have not dry it ) is 2-3 minutes only so in this case make sure to prepare your sauce before!
- Cooking time for the dry pasta is approximately 5-6 minutes, a bit less then common supermarket pasta.
- You can make with this dough any pasta shape if you have the right struments ( see link belows for some ideas) Then put the pasta to dry in a oven tray!
( check these youtube videos for more shapes and how to do it without the kitchenaid robot!)
enjoy!!!
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