Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, homemade pasta: orecchiette. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mix semolina flour and salt in a large bowl or on a marble work surface. Make a well in the center. Pour water into the well a little at a time, mixing it with the flour.
Homemade Pasta: Orecchiette is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Homemade Pasta: Orecchiette is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade pasta: orecchiette using 2 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Pasta: Orecchiette:
- Prepare Semolina flour
- Prepare Lukewarm water
Orecchiette, or "little ears," for their cupped shape, are one of the simplest pastas to make at home. See Lucinda Scala Quinn make orecchiette in our step-by-step photo tutorial. Any extra orecchiette can be frozen up to six weeks: First, freeze them in a single layer on a baking sheet. Making homemade pasta in Italy is an ancient art: from the fresh pasta sheet you get tagliolini or With the dough without eggs usually you get pasta like cavatelli, trofie, orecchiette, bucatini, fusilli.
Steps to make Homemade Pasta: Orecchiette:
- Fill a large bowl with the semolina flour, shape it into a mound, then make a well in the middle. Gradually pour 2/3 the amount of lukewarm water into the well and mix in the flour.
- After mixing the water and flour, gradually add the rest of the lukewarm water a little at a time, and knead until the dough reaches the firmness of your earlobes. Bring together into a ball.
- Transfer to a work surface. With one hand, hold down the part of the dough closest to you.
- With the other hand, press down on the side of the dough farthest from you, then use your palm to knead away from you several times.
- Rotate the dough to evenly knead. Put your weight into it for ease.
- The once dry dough will turn elastic. Once it is well kneaded until elastic, bring it together into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, then let sit for 20 minutes.
- Cut the dough into fourths, and roll each portion into long rope 1 cm in diameter. Wrap any dough that you won't be using.
- Chop 1.5 cm pieces from the rope of dough.
- With your non-dominant hand, pinch a piece of the dough between your thumb and pointer and middle fingers. Lightly press on the dough while smoothing out the rounded imprint with your thumb.
- To prevent the pasta shapes from sticking together, lightly dust with flour, put on a dish, and wrap in plastic wrap.
- To boil the pasta: Boil a pot full of water, add a handful of salt, bring to a boil, then add the orecchiette and mix.
- Remove the orecchiette pasta 30 seconds after they rise to the surface, check the firmness, and drain.
- The photo shows orecchiette pasta with a soy milk-based sauce. Make this pasta when you want to enjoy a tasty sauce.
With my Dad originally being from Puglia in Southern Italy, homemade pasta just seemed like the right thing to do and let me tell you this, it was delicious. Le orecchiette - Peperoni e Patate. Plus tips on how to roll out your pasta by hand or using a pasta maker. Fresh pasta with zucchini and green asparagus. Potato salad with bacon onion mustard.
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