Showing posts with label Pasta recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pasta recipes. Show all posts

Friday, June 25, 2010

Yummy Pici

A very yummy delight that has come to make your day more tasty yes it is Pici a kind of thick, hand rolled pasta it is very much similar to fat spaghetti, it is made up of flour, very delicious recipe as it has originated in the province of Siena in Tuscany, it is hearty pasta and can be best served with rich meat sauce so lets come to know how it is made. Serves 4 to 6 people

Yummy Pici
All you need:

* 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

* Hearty Meat Ragu

* 5 Cups Flour

* 1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Other ingredients:

* Olive Oil for Rolling

* Extra Flour For Rolling and For Drying

* Grated Cheese For Serving

How to make:

* Take flour, salt and water in a bowl.

* Make dough by adding required water.

* Knead the dough to make it elastic, then wrap the kneaded dough in plastic wrap.

* Leave it for 30 mins, then use half of it and start rolling, roll it by making it 1/4 inch thick.

* Keep your dough in rectangular shape and make strips.

* Take a strip with lightly oiled fingers first roll into a tube, follow the process as bring both hands to the center of the tube, then gently roll it with your fingers start moving the your hands apart towards the ends.

* Now keep it on Kitchen towel, start cooking just bring salted water to boil pour the pici and let it get cooked.

* Check after 5 min make sure Pici should not be mushy it should be tendered.

* Drain it , now put it to a pot ,now add couple of scoops of sauce into the pot and shake it with pici.

* Now serve the pici in the bowls add more sauce and top it with grated cheese.

* Enjoy!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Penne all'arrabbiata

Very yummy taste that gives you ultimate delight , a recipe called Penne all'arrabbiata in this there is a use of chili, you can add so much of chilli as you want, it got originated in the central part of Italy, basically it follows Roman cooking tradition. So to have a roman taste try something different this time and just switch to this mouth watering stuff.

Penne all'arrabbiata
All you need:

* 2 Cloves of garlic

* A small handful of flat leaf parsley

* 400 g of Penne rigate pasta

* 90 ml of Extra virgin olive oil

* 500 g of Chopped tomatoes

* Salt for seasoning

* 2 or 3 Whole dried red chili

How to make:

* Chop chili and garlic

* Then heat the olive oil and put chopped ingredients.

* Make garlic golden brown

* After that add chopped tomatoes and stir.

* Add salt.

* Cook the stuff on medium heat for about 20-25 minutes, to make the sauce ready.

* Then add boil pasta to sauce, stir well and coat the pasta will sauce.

* Sprinkle chopped parsely, stir and serve .

* Enjoy!