making HM pasta

Alison_B

Lidl have got the pasta machines in from 21/11 for £7.99.

bootman

The one in argos is reduced to 9.99. I bought it last week.Its brilliant

Zziggi

I have got the following recipe for HM pasta:

Ingredients (serves two)
You need 100g semolina an 45g Water (or a small egg plus water up to 45g) per dish. No Salt.
I like best Half Semolina and half "Semolina Durum Wheat".
• 100g Semolina
• 100g Semolina Durum Wheat
• 2 Eggs (Take the best you can get, you will taste the difference. Not too big).
• a bit Water, so eggs plus water add to 90g
for spaghetti you use only water, no egg.
• 30 Minutes for preparation

I know it'll sound like a thick question but what is durum wheat flour? Would it matter if i used normal plain flour? Can you get semolina & semolina durum wheat from a normal supermarket, and if so is it on a shelf with normal flour? is semolina and semolina durum wheat different stuff?

Curry_Queen

According to JO you can use plain flour instead of semolina flour, but he also mixes it with strong pasta flour.

He has two recipes in his Naked Chef book ...

Everyday Quick Pasta

500g strong pasta flour (Tipo '00')
5 large free range eggs
semolina flour for dusting

Special Pasta Recipe

150g strong pasta flour (Tipo '00')
350g semolina flour (or plain flour if you can't get it)
2 large free range eggs
9-10 large free range egg yolks
semolina flour for dusting


Like anything else, the end product will only ever be as good as the ingredients used, so you will probably get away with using plain flour but it might not produce the quality of pasta you would like or expect

Zziggi

Curry_Queen wrote:

According to JO you can use plain flour instead of semolina flour, but he also mixes it with strong pasta flour.
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Thank C_Q! Just realised that JO isn;t "Jo" but Jamie Oliver :rolleyes:

arkonite_babe

I'm ashamed to say I gave my pasta machine away recently on freecycle
I don't have time to make pasta any more but when I did make it I used a recipe by Kevin Woodford. It was in the Flying Cook recipe book, so if I find that I'll post it up on the recipe thread.

whitty999

Please could someone tell me how to make a homemade tuna psta salad perhaps with other added ingredients,I know i sound dumb but only just getting started.

arkonite_babe

I actually gave away my pasta machine on Freecycle last year

Heth_2

ancasta wrote:

For an everyday pasta use, your much better off using dried and alot of italians do this themselves or so ive seen every time ive been in Italy.

I keep the making of fresh pasta for special occasions.

I grew up in Italy and no normal full time working people I ever met made their own home made everyday pasta. There is a huge variety of dried pasta for sale there (loads more than in the uk) and i think it tastes better than some of the stuff we get here as well. There are little deli shops that sell fresh pasta, but its expensive and very much a special occasion thing.
Lots of people I knew made gnocchi though.

mummysaver

I make pasta and gnocchi about once a week - both freeze well (no doubt someone will point out that I'm going to poison myself if I shouldn't be doing this!). I use Tesco value plain flour, and whole eggs, a glug of olive oil and water to bind. I did use a pasta machine, but it broke (probably through overuse!) so am on the lookout for a cheap one (hopefully argos will have them in their sale, they ususally do). My pasta has always come out well, and the only time it was a bit chewy was when I used proper flour!

Kids love to make pasta, and don't really make any more mess than when they bake cakes (and at least they aren't making a mess elsewhere!), and I love it when mine cook the dinner!