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Episode 106

 

Stress Free Cooking by Barbara Seelig Brown

 

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Frascarelli in salsa di pomodoro al pesto leggero di basilico

Recipe from Andrea Tiberi of Eatalia

“Frascarelli” home made pasta with tomato sauce and light basil pesto

Ingredients (6 people)

 

For the frascarelli

1lb 2 oz flour

3 eggs

 

 

For the tomatoes sauce

2 lb 4 oz fresh ripe tomatoes

1 bunch Italian basil (blended with ¼  cup of extra virgin olive oil)

3 garlic cloves

½ cup extra virgin olive oil

½ lb GRANA Padana cheese 

Sea salt

 

Method

 

Heat three quarts of water in a saucepan. Sprinkle flour in a fine layer over a pastry board.  Beat the eggs and distribute them evenly over the flour.   Gather up the flour gently in your fingers, and rub together.

The success of the “frascarelli” depends on the sureness and delicate quickness with which this operation is performed. pass it through a fine sieve, drop the lumps, or “frascarelli”, that remain on the surface of the sieve into the boiling water making sure that there is no excess flour present.

 

Cook the  “frascarelli” in boiling salted water.

Let them cook for one minute. Drain, add the  “frascarelli” to the tomatoes sauce, toss lightly, add the basil leaves and hot pepper.

 

 

Serve immediately,  and enjoy with grated GRANA cheese on top before serve with the other half e.v.o. oil.  

 

For tomatoes sauce

In a pan add half of the oil, the garlic  and when hot add the cherry tomatoes, already cutted in quarter, sprinkle with salt and cook about 10 minutes.

Add salt and the light basil blended with the e.v.o.oil.

 

Trick of the trade: Make sure to pass the Frascarelli through the drum sieve before cooking as otherwise pasta will clump up.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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