Saffron Pasta
If you can find the time to make your own spelt pasta, the taste is delicious. The pasta becomes the star of the meal and a few flavorful bites fill one with immense eating pleasure. Otherwise spelt pasta is made by purity foods and is available at many USA health food stores. The egg adds flavor to this recipe and cannot be substituted however it can be omitted.
Ingredients Pasta
1 Tbsp hot water
⅛ tsp saffron
1 ΒΌ C sifted fine organic spelt flour
⅛ tsp Himalayan pink crystal salt (optional)
1 tsp olive oil (optional)
1 egg (or omit altogether)
Do not use egg replacer
Preparing Pasta
Place the saffron in a tablespoon of hot water. Allow it to seep until cooled. Add flour and salt to the food processor. With the food processor on, add an egg through the chute; add the saffron with one tablespoon of water, and a teaspoon of olive oil to the flour in the food processor. Process until it resembles fine peas or oatmeal. I put everything in a food processor and slowly add the water, watching it so it resembles little peas. Knead it together to form a lump. Cover and let the dough rest for about an hour or longer. Bring a large pot of water to boil for the pasta. After about an hour,run the pasta dough through the pasta machine several times starting with the thickest noodle setting and continuing until it is run through the thinnest setting. You will notice as you continue to run the dough through the pasta machine eventually it begins to feel like pasta. If it is too soft, add a little more spelt flour. Once it is thin, run the flat pasta strips through the cutter making fettuccine. Place it in the salted boiling water. This will cook more quickly than dried pasta.
NOTES
Recently while traveling I made this pasta for friends. I did not have a cuisinart food processor; did not have my pasta machine yet by almost rolling it out by hand, cutting it by hand, this pasta was enjoyed by all. Beverly, my friend, saved the day by getting the cuisinart to work for mixing. I just tossed with fresh thyme leaves and little olive oil.
