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Making fresh pasta has become one of my favorite activities on my days off. You'd think that when I'm not working in the kitchen, the last thing I would want to do is cook more at home; however, I find certain things very relaxing on my day off. I love making pasta and I love making gyoza. It's a mindless task I can do in the living room while watching a movie, and it gives me plenty of leftovers I can store in the pantry or the freezer.
This spinach pasta is a wonderful color before cooking and it retains its color after cooking. It looks beautiful and tastes delicious with just olive oil, Parmesan cheese, crushed red pepper and black pepper. It's a very easy second course for dinner. In this case, it was an afternoon snack with the leftover scrap pasta after making ravioli (recipe to be posted later)
Spinach Pasta dough
- 5 ounces all purpose flour
- 5 ounces semolina flour
- 2 eggs
- 160 grams fresh baby spinach, stems remove
Directions
- Bring a pot of liberally salted water to a boil. Blanch spinach in water until just wilted and shock in cold water to preserve the color
- Squeeze water out and chop in both directions so the final product will not be stringy. Place spinach and eggs in a food processor and blend until smooth. It will not be uniform, but the spinach pieces will be very very small.
- Pour egg mixture into the flour and form pasta dough. You can use volcano method or stand mixer. If too wet, add more flour mixture as needed
- Let rest for 30 minutes for the gluten to relax
- Roll pasta to desired thickness through your pasta roller. Boil until done and serve as desired.
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