Buckwheat Pasta - Gluten-free - Pasta Kitchen (tutto pasta)

Gluten-freeĀ Buckwheat Pasta

Ingredients

Preparing the dough by hand:

  • 300g buckwheat flour
  • 2 fresh egg whites
  • 125 ml cold water

Preparing the dough

  1. Create a well with the soft-wheat flourĀ in a bowl; pour the egg whites and the water into the middle.
  2. Mix the flour, egg whites and water with a fork and knead the dough.
  3. Keep kneading the dough by hand until it is smooth and sticks together. If the dough is too dry, add some water, if it is too soft add some flour.
  4. Take the dough out of the bowl and place it on lightly floured table. Continue, if necessary, to knead the dough by hand; then, cut it into four pieces.

Preparing the Sheets (With Marcato Pasta Machine).

  1. Set the pasta machine thickness-adjustment to 0 and pass one of the four pieces of dough through the smooth rollers.
  2. Lightly dust both sides of the sheet of pasta with flour and fold it in half. Feed the sheet of pasta back through the smooth rollers again: repeat these operations several times until the sheet of pasta has a long and regular shape.
  3. Cut the resulting sheet into two pieces, and sprinkle them lightly with flour on both sides.
  4. Set the thickness-adjustment to 1 and pass the sheet through just once; then, set the thickness-adjustment to 2 and pass the sheet through once more; then, set the thickness-adjustment to 3, and so forth until you achieve the required thickness.
  5. Fit the attachment to the Atlas pasta machine or to the Mixer, if you are using the 3 Facile mixer, the selected cutting accessory and pass the sheet through the cutting rollers to achieve the required paste shapeĀ  (No cutting accessories can be assembled on the Ampia pasta machine).
  6. Lastly, cook the pasta that you have made, or store it once you have left it to dry on a drying rackĀ for at least one hour.

Preparing the Sheets (by hand and traditional tools).

  1. Lightly dust both sides of the sheet of pasta with flour and fold it in half. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin: repeat thisĀ actionĀ several times until the sheet of pasta has a long and regular shape.
  2. Cut the resulting sheet into two pieces, and sprinkle them lightly with flour on both sides.
  3. Roll out the two pieces so the dough is in sheets about 2-3mm.
  4. Using your desired cutting tool, e.g. spaghetti cutter rolling pin, or pasta wheel, cut evenly onto the sheet.
  5. Lastly, cook the pasta that you have made, or store it once you have left it to dry on a suitable drying rackĀ for at least one hour.

Tips For Fresh Pasta

  • Do not use cold eggs straight from the fridge.
  • Do not add salt in the preparation of the dough.
  • The dough is the perfect consistency when it does not stick to your fingers.
  • The recommended thickness of the dough sheet for fettuccine is 5 on the thickness-adjustment.
  • The recommended thickness of the dough sheet for tagliolini is 7 on the thickness-adjustment.
    • The thinnest pasta sheet thickness is achieved by setting the machine on 9 and feeding the sheet of pasta through twice.
    • If the rollers are not able to cut the sheet it means that the dough is too soft; add more flour.
    • If the dough is too dry the rollers will not be able to take it in. Add water.
    • Cook the pasta in a large amount of hot water (4 litres for 1/2 kg of pasta).

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