Handmade Fettuccine with Shrimp and Mushrooms

No pasta maker, no downside. Essentially the most tender, decadent pasta from scratch might be made with little greater than an egg, flour, and your favourite kitchen knife. Semolina flour helps the pasta absorb sauce, and it’s extra elastic and fewer sticky than different flours.

At a excessive stage: make a dough, let it relaxation, then slice it into noodles able to boil.

We’re making egg noodles with butter and cheese, complemented with some elective shrimp and mushrooms. This recipe is impressed by a visit I took to Italy within the low season the place it’s simple to get a bunch cooking class all to your self! I realized to make pasta in an previous Vatican granary with Romina from Cooking Class Rome. 

PASTA DOUGH

Components

The traditional pasta dough recipe requires 1 egg per particular person (50g), and 1 ½ the egg’s weight in flour (75g). Let’s make sufficient dough for 4 individuals… we might want leftovers. 

• 4 giant eggs (~50g apiece)
• 1 cup minus 2 tbsp Semolina flour (~150g) resembling Bob’s Purple Mill
• 1 ¼ cup All-purpose flour (~150g) resembling White Lily
• 1 tsp sea salt or desk salt (6g)

Directions

In a mixing bowl, mix the semolina flour, all-purpose flour, and salt. 

Select a clear work floor resembling a big slicing board or clear countertop.

Flip your salted flour onto your work floor and kind a mound like a volcano with a deep crater within the heart. Crack your eggs into the middle one by one, discarding the shells, and use a fork to softly stir a number of the flour into the eggs. As soon as all eggs are within the heart, hold gently stirring till they’re fully mixed with the flour, folding it inward.

Hold some semolina flour close by to powder the floor and hold the dough from sticking to your arms. Fold the dough onto itself till you could have a uniform ball of dough, and a pressed finger indentation bounces again barely.

Cowl it with plastic wrap and set it apart for half-hour. This lets the dough relaxation and loosen up to develop into supple and stretchy by itself, saturating each grain of flour with the eggs we blended in. 

Clear and dry your work floor, and sprinkle on some semolina flour to maintain it from sticking.

This dough will get rolled flat all the way down to 1mm, so in case your work floor is small, you possibly can merely slice off ¼ a piece and work with a small portion at a time. 

Take away your dough from its resting place, discard any plastic wrap, and roll your dough flat utilizing a rolling pin, dusting at any time when you should forestall sticking.
I roll twice in a single path, rotate it 90 levels, and roll once more, repeating till it’s solely flat. The objective is an extended rectangle that we’ll fold in on itself. Trim off any sides to make it sq..

THE NOODLES

Utilizing the again of a knife, hint 3 even fold traces, so at 25%, 50%, and 75%.

Mud all the floor.

Fold the highest of the dough all the way down to the 25% line, and fold the underside as much as the 75% line.

Fold each of these in direction of the center so you could have one lengthy strip.

Utilizing a pointy knife, lower this into 1cm strips, every lower will develop into a noodle. 

As soon as they’re lower, sprinkle some flour and jumble them along with your fingers to unfold them out into noodles and take away their angular folds. Divide the noodles into 4 separate, gently twisted “nests” for boiling. 

Deliver a pot of not less than two quarts of water to a boil, and sprinkle in a pinch of salt. 

As soon as it’s a rolling boil, add one batch of noodles and separate with a picket spoon, fork, or tongs to separate in the event that they’re sticking. 

Boil for 2-3 minutes, then take away from water and put aside. 

They are going to end cooking in your sauce of selection — my favourite is under. 

Shrimp

Elective however a incredible add-in, incorporate shrimp proper because the noodles are going within the pan with the sauce. 

• 1lbs shrimp- uncooked, thawed, peeled, deveined (450g)
• ½ lemon’s juice (54g)
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 1 tbsp olive oil (15g)

Deliver a pan to medium warmth. Add in olive oil and garlic. Stir till aromatic, however don’t let the garlic totally brown. Add in shrimp, combine with garlic and oil, and drizzle with lemon juice.

Stir and switch shrimp simply till they’re not translucent on both aspect… they’ll end cooking in pasta sauce. 

Mushrooms

Once more elective, however mushrooms are one other worthwhile add-in. They pair so nicely with shrimp and Parmesan. Incorporate these proper because the noodles are going within the pan with the sauce.

• ½ pound (226g) contemporary mushrooms resembling crimini, shiitake, or oyster mushrooms, sliced
• ½ shallot, sliced finely
• 1tbsp butter (15g)
• 1tbsp olive oil (15g)

Deliver a pan to medium warmth. Add in butter, olive oil and shallot, stirring steadily to distribute till the shallot is aromatic and scorching. Add in mushrooms, turning over to mix and absorb the butter and olive oil. When all elements are saturated and the mushrooms are tender, take them off the warmth. 

SAUCE AND FINAL ASSEMBLY

This pasta sauce is just like what you’d discover in “fettuccine alfredo”, however is primarily often called “fettuccine al burro”. 

• 8 tbps butter, softened (114g)
• ¼ cup heavy cream (60g)
• ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (56g)
• 1 tsp further grated Parmesan cheese for topping
• 1 tsp freshly floor black pepper

Cream the butter in a bowl till gentle and fluffy. Beat within the cream a little bit at a time, till totally included. Lastly, combine within the grated cheese. In the event you’re not utilizing the sauce without delay, this could go within the fridge.

Warmth a skillet over medium warmth, and even the identical empty pot used for the pasta, and add within the sauce substances till they’re about to simmer. Add in your noodles. 

In the event you’ve ready shrimp and mushrooms, they go in now as nicely.

When all the pieces is coated, simmer for two minutes and take off the warmth. 

Plate the pasta and canopy with a pinch or two of contemporary Parmesan.

Buon urge for food!

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