Thursday 10 January 2008

Home-made roasted garlic pasta

Yum! I made this to use some roasted garlic - and was really please with the gorgeous silky pasta result! I served it with a roast garlic ragu - the flavours were fab together! But I think it would work just as well with very basic sauces - maybe even some good olive oil with some dried red chilli! If you don't have a food processor, you can make this by hand, but make sure you knead it until it's silky!

I love garlic - so was very chuffed to see that
Sunita from Sunita's World blog has chosen "Garlic" as her choice this month for her Think Spice... Think... event. I'm sending this over to her now - hope she likes it!


I think this made enough for about 6. It's always difficult to say how many 'normal' portions it would cover, as Boyfriend always eats enough for at least two and occasionally 3!

  • 500g strong white pasta
  • 4 whole eggs
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 head roasted garlic
  • Semolina (durem) flour for dusting

  1. Using a food processor with a dough blade, pulse the flour, eggs, and cooled roast garlic until it resembles large breadcrumbs. At this stage you may want to add a spot more egg white (or water) if the mixture looks dusty, or a bit more flour if it looks too wet.
  2. Turn on the processor and allow to turn for 2/3 minutes until the dough is shiny. (Alternatively do this by hand-kneading)
  3. Turn out the dough and continue to knead by hand for a further 1/2 minutes.
  4. Wrap dough in clingfilm and allow to rest in the fridge for an hour.
  5. Remove dough from fridge and cut into 4 pieces - keep one piece out and make sure you cover up the others so they don't dry out.
  6. I use a pasta machine to make my pasta, but I'm sure you could roll it by hand if you had the time or inclination ;)
  7. Roll the piece of dough into a ball and flatten slightly.
  8. Pass through the pasta machine at it's thickest setting, then fold each end in towards the middle (folding it at the 1/3 way point) to make a rectangle. Lightly dust with durum flour.
  9. Pass this through at the same setting, the repeat folding process.
  10. I usually do this 7 times - it is one of the main techniques to ensure really silky pasta!
  11. After the 7th pass through, don't fold the dough - but reduce the pasta machine setting, lightly dust, and pass though.
  12. Repeat this, reducing the machine setting each time, until you have the thickness you are looking for (Usually 1/1.25mm for tagliatelle type pasta)
  13. To make tagliatelle, cut the length of rolled out dough into sections about 25cm long.
  14. Dust both sides of the the dough and roll up.
  15. Using a sharp knife, cut the roll into the pasta width required, then separate.
  16. If using immediately, place onto a plate, and cover with a damp cloth while you finish the rest of the dough. Alternatively,you can hang it to dry for 6-8 hours (must be brittle and snap easily) then store it in an airtight container for up to one month.
  17. How long the pasta will take to cook depends on how thin you rolled it - remember fresh pasta takes much less time to cook than dried - check it after 2 minutes. Use lots of well salted water and a large pan to give the pasta lots of room to move. I heard on a TV show recently that the Italian rule of thumb is for every 100g pasta, use 1 litre water and 10g salt!

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6 comments:

Ruth Daniels said...

Wow! This is definitely one pasta my daughter and I will do on our ritual Sunday pasta making day! Thanks for sharing.

javagirlkt's cookin' said...

Hi there :) I just stumbled across your blog and noticed we have the same blog template, same love of garlic and pasta, and we both have two kitties.

I'm fairly new to the world of food blogging too, so welcome!!!

Everything you've posted so far looks great, keep up the good work :)

sunita said...

Thanks for your lovely entry :-)

lcsa99@yahoo.com said...

I can't wait to try this one. I have spent the last week or so collecting recipes off the internet to try with my new pasta machine. This one will definitely be at the top of my list.

And best of all you've gotten me thinking about other things I can do with roasted garlic! Horray for garlic!

Anonymous said...

Roasted galric pasta sounds amazing!! I have to say - I forgot to mention the cide rman when you asked about Borough on twitter!! You MUST go and see the cider man!! The later you go, the more merry he will be...

Buy Cialis said...

This is awesome because my favorite ingredient is garlic I love putting in my meals a tons of garlic and then kissing my girlfriend because she loves the smell of my mouth.