For this recipe we made our own pasta! I hae a pasta machine at home, but hardly ever use it. And when I do, I usually end up making lasagne sheets because I can't be bothered with the last step of cutting into strips. But its not even difficult, so will have to do better in the future!!
Fresh Noodle/Pasta Dough Recipe
Ingredients – serves 4:
250gm plain flour
3 eggs (55gm)
10ml oil
pinch of salt
Method 1:
1. Sift the flour into a bowl and form a bay in the middle
2. Whisk the eggs and pour into the bay
3. Add the oil and salt
4. Gradually incorporate the flour into the egg
5. Knead the dough until its smooth and doesn’t stick to your hand
6. Wrap and refrigerate for ½ hour
7. Roll as desired
Method 2:
1. Alternatively sift flour into a food processor, add the egg, oil and
salt and process until smooth
2. Wrap and refrigerate for ½ hour
The sauce we did for the Fettucine was simple, different and delicious!!
¼ cup olive oil
300gm fettucinne
½ head cauliflower
½ red chilli
40 gm kalamatta olives (pitted)
½ Bunch continental parsley
1 x sprig rosemary
1 teaspoon mini capers (preserved in salt)
1 teaspoon anchovies
60gm Pecorino cheese
2 cloves garlic
salt and pepper
I didt let my partner put the anchovy into our sauce because I wanted to keep it vegetarian!
Cut cauliflower into small 2cm florets
1. 2. Pick rosemary leaves
3. In deep frypan, fry florets with ½ cup olive oil until golden brown
4. Rinse capers, and leave to dry on paper towel
5. Slice garlic and chilli, add to cauliflower
6. Cook for 3 minutes or until soft
7. Add dried capers, chopped anchovies, olives and rosemary
8. Stir on medium heat until anchovies dissolve
9. Meanwhile, chop parsley, grate cheese
10. Boil a medium pot of salted water and cook fettucine until pasta is al dente
11. Drain off excess water
12. Add half of grated pecorino and the half of the parsley
13. Stir with metal spoon off bottom of pan until mix to begins to
stick
14. Add remaining cheese and parsley
15. Toss through pasta and serve
IT was really delicious!!!
