I am not a big pasta person, never really have been but for the holiday my father-in-law got me a ravioli form so I had to try making pasta. Believe it or not there aren’t any good recipe’s that I found online so I had to go hunting in my cookbooks! Can you believe it, I actually had to open up a cookbook! I love my cookbooks and use the bread ones often but don’t usually get the opportunity to use my Fanny Farmer Cookbook and even less often my Joy of Cooking which I have had now for about 8 years. I love my Fanny Farmer cookbook, it’s the one my grandmother (and her mother) use. My grandmother still has the 3 edition from her mother! I have the 13th edition. So that was the first one I jumped to for a pasta recipe.
There were two different versions, one American and one Italian. I decided to go with the Italian one because the recipe said the American version was more chewy. I don’t like chewy pasta at all…ick! So I put all the ingredients together and instead of doing the white version I substituted KA White Whole Wheat.
2 cups flour KA White Whole Wheat flour
3 eggs
I threw the ingredients into my Kitchen Aid Standing Mixer, which worked great! You can also make a bowl in your flour and slowly combine the ingredients with a whisk. With my standing mixer I used the paddle and let the flour saturate well. It was necessary to throw some water into the mix to make sure the White Whole Wheat flour saturated appropriately. Then I put the dough hook on and kneaded the dough for another couple minutes. I then allowed the dough to stand for about 20 minutes to make sure the flour was fully saturated. I then separated the dough into 2 balls and with the pasta machine on its highest setting started running the dough through it. Slowly working down to the lowest setting. I then ran it through the linguine cutter and viola, homemade linguine!
I then separated the strands and laid them on a pan lined with parchment to dry out a little bit.
Once they dried a little bit it was cooking time! They cooked for about 3 minutes in boiling water then I drained them and rinsed them with some water. If you want to prevent them from sticking together, toss them with some olive oil. The final product should look something like the picture below.
The recipe makes about 1 pound of noodles and you do need a pasta machine for this (to get it thin enough).
I was surprised how easy it was. My husband and I then dressed the noodles with some organic pasta sauce and Tofurky. It was excellent! My hubby then had it for lunch the next day. The noodles became a little sticky and slightly chewy after some time but were very good. I had made pasta once before and it tasted more like egg noodles to me then pasta. I am not a fan of egg noodles.
My next plan is to make some lasagna with home made whole wheat noodles. I hope this works out well for others! Enjoy!
