Pasta is an Italian food item which is made of wheat dough and water. Sometimes, eggs and other foods are included while making it. Pasta is usually served along with sauce. In this guide, we will learn how to make an easy yet delicious pasta dish.
Ingredients you will require:
For making the pasta:
- 200 grams of plain flour, plus some extra for dusting
- 3 eggs, one of them beaten for the eggwash
For making the stuffing:
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
- ½ tablespoon chilli flakes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ¼ savoy cabbage, sliced finely
- 100 grams gorgonzola
- salt to taste and some freshly ground black pepper
For making the sauce:
- 8 fresh sage leaves, chopped finely
- 125 grams butter
Method:
- Put the flour into a food processor. Crack two eggs and add it in. Now start the machine to create dough.
- Dust some flour on a flat surface and tip the dough into it. Knead this dough till it is elastic and smooth. Wrap with a cling wrap and let it rest at room temperature for about 10 to 15 minutes.
- Use a pasta machine and roll the dough. Go from the largest setting possible toward the thinnest. Cut the sheets in halves lengthwise. Lay it on the lightly floured surface for 15 minutes and let it dry.
- Mix parsley, one tablespoon olive oil and basil in a bowl.
- Heat the leftover olive oil in a frying saucepan and fry the cabbage and chili flakes for 5 minutes or till it softens. Remove from heat and let it cool a bit.
- Take the cabbage mixture along with the herbs and the oil, and put it in a bowl. Add the gorgonzola along with it. Mix this well. Add salt and freshly ground pepper to this for taste.
- Take a tablespoon of stuffing mix and place it on a pasta sheet and leave space of about 15 centimeters between each spoon of stuffing.
- Smear the pasta with a beaten egg around the sides and between each spoonful of stuffing that you laid. Place the second pasta sheet on top of this; press down carefully and gently around the edges making sure there are no air gaps left.
- Use a pasta cutter or a pasta wheel to cut the pasta from around the stuffing.
- Boil salt water in a large saucepan and cook the pasta in this for about 2 minutes. Drain while reserving about 3 tablespoons of the water.
- For the sauce, take a small pan and heat some butter in it. Wait for the butter to melt. Add the sage leaves and water you saved earlier from the pasta, and warm it.
- Add all the pasta in the pan and stir it. This should coat the pasta in sauce.
- This recipe will serve two people.
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