Homemade Pasta Noodles (No Eggs)
Ingrediënten
- 2 cups semolina flour *
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup warm water
Instructies
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour and salt.
- Make a well in the center and pour the warm water into the well.
- Using a fork, incorporate the flour into the water.
- Keep mixing until a ball forms.
- Turn out the ball of dough (it will be sticky) onto a floured surface and knead gently for 10 minutes.
- Use more flour to keep the dough from sticking, but try to use as little as possible.
- If the dough becomes too dry, sprinkle on a few drops of warm water and keep kneading.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest for 20 minutes; then set the ball of dough, still tightly wrapped, into the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Tear or cut the dough into 4 equal pieces and work with one piece at a time, keeping the others wrapped and in the refrigerator so they don’t dry out.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out and cut into noodles.
- To cook the pasta, drop noodles into boiling, salted water and cook for about 3-5 minutes or until done.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
* Semolina flour is made from coarse grinding Durham wheat berries. You can use other kinds of flour, including all-purpose and whole wheat, but Semolina/Durham flour makes the very best pasta noodles. When we were kids growing up, Mama would sometimes use Cream of Wheat cereal straight from the box in lieu of the more expensive Semolina to make our noodles. It works very well!