I needed to take some time out! Doesn't it happen to you too???
Today I decided to prepare a meal that takes me straight back in the
arms of my mom!!!
TAGLIATELLE AL SUGO DI POMODORO
I woke up and I started preparing a simple, slow cooked tomato sauce,
so to fill the air with the delicious smell I would wake up with
every Sunday when I was young.
After that I prepared some fresh tagliatelle.
Here are the recepes for you!
SIMPLE TOMATOE SAUCE
Ingredients:
1 big can of peeled tomatoes (750g)(smash tomatoes in blender)
1 can of tomatoe sauce (250 g)
1 peeled whole onion
3 whole celery sticks
2 peeled whole carrots
1 peeled clove of garlic
1 tsp origanum
4 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
Put all ingredients in a pot and cook slowly for 1 hour.
Adjust salt and remove vegetables.
If in season, add basil to give extra flavour!!
You can use it to dress pasta, tagliatelle, gnocchi, polenta.
You can also use it to cook eggs topped with a fine slice of mozzarella!
TAGLIATELLE
Ingredients:
400 g/3cups FLOUR
4 EGGS
1tsp salt
Place a wide wooden board on the kitchen counter.
Mound the flour on the wooden surface and make a deep well in the center with your hands.
Crack the eggs into the well and add salt.
Mix the eggs with a fork and then start incorporating the flour from the side of the well.
When the egg mixture is no longer liquid start using your hands to incorporate the rest of the flour and to start kneading the dough.
Scrap up any dough that sticks to the wooden surface with a knife and keep kneading
for about 5 minutes, till the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
Cover dough with a ceramic bowl and let it rest.
Meanwhile prepare the pasta machine.
Knead dough again and cut it in small pieces.
Roll each piece in the machine starting with the widest setting, ending with the finest one.
Sprinkle the pasta stripes with flour and cut them in the tagliatelle side of the machine.
Toss the tagliatelle on a floured wooden board to dry.
