How to cook healthy pasta with easy italian healthy pasta recipes – orecchiette (VIDEO)
|Learn how to cook healthy pasta with easy italian healthy pasta recipes – orecchiette. Making pasta by hand is sensual. First you knead the dough, hugging it with your fingers to pull it toward you, then digging the heels of your hands into it and pushing it away, in soothing rhythm. Then, after a period of rest, you shape the pasta. Sometimes you roll it first. In the case of orecchiette, you cut it into pieces and make pencil-thin ropes, cut those into short segments and then shape each segment. It’s a meditative task. After a while, your eyes lose themselves contemplating the wisdom of your hands. Each piece of pasta comes out a little different, unique. Making pasta by hand is joyful. These are the orecchiette, orecchiette is a typical from south of Italy, precisely Puglia, to prepare the sauce, simply place a clove if garlic in a dying pan with a bit of oil, add tomato puree, salt and a pinch of sugar, cook for 10/15 add the orecchiette and serve it, To cook the orecchiette, use boiling water and let it cook the “pasta” for 5/7 minutes, sometimes, depends by how thick the orecchiette are could take a little bit longer, don’t over cook them.
Ingredients:
one egg
250 gr. Semolina flour
one tbsp. of Olive oil
salt and water.