Eggless Fresh Ramp Pasta
- 2 cups Ramp Leaves
- 1/2 cups Water
- 1 cup All-purpose Flour
- 1 cup Semolina Flour Plus Extra For Your Work Surface
- 1/2 teaspoons Salt
- 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- First you need to blanch the ramp leaves.
- Fill a medium sauce pot with water and add a pinch of salt.
- Bring it to a boil.
- While its coming to a boil get a bowl filled with ice water ready.
- When the water comes to a boil drop in the ramp leaves and boil for about 30 seconds or until they turn bright green.
- With a kitchen spider or slotted spoon pull ramps out of the boiling water and plunge into ice water to stop the cooking.
- Leave them in there for a minute or two then drain them.
- In blender add the drained and cooled ramps and 1/2 cup water.
- Blend until smooth.
- Add both flours and salt into your food processor.
- Pulse until combined.
- With processor on low slowly pour in 1 tablespoon olive oil and the ramp/water mixture.
- Pulse until the dough forms a ball.
- You can adjust now if the dough is still dry, only add 1 spoonful at a time.
- Turn dough out on a floured (use semolina flour) surface and knead dough until totally combined and dough is smooth.
- Cover dough with a sheet of plastic wrap and let dough rest at least 15 minutes or store in the refrigerator for up to two days.
- Rolling out the pasta: Cut dough into 4 pieces and keep the sections that you arent using covered with plastic wrap.
- This dough will dry out quickly.
- Also have a tea towel ready for drying out the pasta or if making ravioli have a sheet pan floured with semolina.
- Flour 1/4 of the dough with semolina and roll it out to the shape of a rectangle.
- Fold the rectangle in thirds and repeat.
- Do this three times to work the dough.
- You can also do this with a pasta machine.
- If using a pasta machine just fold the dough and run it through the pasta machine starting with the widest setting.
- I have a pasta machine but still roll it out by hand.
- I roll the long strips of rolled out dough and then cut it into strips (whatever size width pasta you want) and lay it out flat on tea towels to dry.
- You can hang it over a cabinet door to dry but I have dogs so I cant.
- Repeat with the rest of the pasta.
- Cooking the fresh pasta: Fill a large stock pot 3/4 of the way full with water and add a nice bit of salt.
- The water should taste like the sea.
- Bring to a boil, add pasta to boiling water, reduce heat to simmer and cook 2-5 minutes.
- This cooking time really depends on the thickness of your pasta.
- Cook to your preferred level of tenderness.
- Be careful not to over cook.
- Have your sauce ready and waiting for your homemade pasta!
- This recipe will make 48 ravioli or one pound of cut pasta.
leaves, water, allpurpose, flour, salt, olive oil
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/eggless-fresh-ramp-pasta/ (may not work)