Casper’s Pasta alla Calamata
Ingredients Pasta
1 serving
100 g
1
Flour
Egg
Ingredients Sauce
4 servings
500 ml
800 g
20 g
1 TBL sp
1/2
1
Bouillon (vegetable)
Canned tomatoes
Fresh Italian herbs (thyme, sage, oregano)
Olive oil
Lemon
Red chilli pepper
Ingredients Filling
4 servings
1/2
240 g
100 g
Zucchini
Calamata olives
Sun-dried tomatoes
Ingredients Topping
4 servings
25 g
to taste
Walnuts
Parmesan
Prep
- Cut zucchini in quartered slices
- Cut sun-dried tomatoes in strips
- Halve olives
Cook
Make bouillon
add bouillon with 500 ml water, boil
Add tomatoes, fresh Italian herbs, olive oil, and red chilli pepper
remove the stems of the herbs, don't add them
low heat, simmer as long as possible but at least ~20 min
In a medium bowl, put the flour in it with a pinch of salt
mix
Add egg
make a hole in the center and put in the eggs here
mix the eggs with the flour with a fork, making sure that a little bit of flour is mixed with the eggs at a time
when the mixture becomes too thick for the fork, mix the flour with the dough with your hands, adding the flour little by little
when the mixture can be formed into a ball, take it from the bowl and move it to the working sheet
Knead the dough
knead the dough ball adding some flour every time when the dough sticks on the outside ~10 min
put the dough away in plastic foil for ~10 min
Knead the dough again
pick up the dough ball again and knead it again for ~2 min
Flatten the dough
flatten the dough with a rolling pin to fit through the pasta machines
Make spaghetti
put the dough through the pasta machine, adding some flour on the surface whenever you notice that the dough is sticking
don't be afraid to put flour on the surface, better too much than too little
go to position 7, set to the spaghetti position and make spaghetti from the pasta
let the spaghetti dry on the rack
Puree into a smooth sauce
with a hand blender, no need to remove the herbs
Boil 1L water in another pan
Add zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes and olives to the tomato sauce
~5 min
Squeeze lemon
taste if the sourness is good, simmer a little longer if it's too sour
Cook the spaghetti
~2 min
Serve the pasta with sauce, walnuts and parmesan
