Home Made Pasta

The July Daring Kitchen Challenge was to make home made pasta.  Be sure to check out my full post on my main blog.

Pasta:
Ingredients
2 cups semolina flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp olive oil
2 large eggs

• Make a well of the flour and salt on your work surface

• Add eggs and olive oil to the well, mix into flour until a stiff dough is formed

• Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let rest in fridge for approx. 1 hour

• Divide dough into small portions, flatten into a disk and feed through pasta roller at widest setting.  Fold the dough in 3 and feed through again.  Repeat this step 5-6 times.

• Change the roller settings to a smaller width and continue to feed dough through.  Lower the setting with each pass.  You can cut the dough if it gets too long to work with.

• Once the dough is the desired thickness, pass it through the cutting end of the pasta machine.

• Hang pasta to dry.

Tomato, Basil, Brie and Fresh Pasta
Ingredients
Fresh Pasta
Cherry Tomatoes
Fresh Basil Leaves
Brie

• Quarter tomatoes.
• Remove stems from basil leaves, cut a Chiffonade
• Remove rind from Brie, cube.
• Cook Pasta - fresh pasta only takes 1-2 minutes. Drain.
• Toss tomatoes, basil and Brie with hot pasta till Brie is melted.
• Serve and enjoy.