Why didn’t y’all make me buy that Kitchen Aid attachment sooner? I can’t believe how easy it was. I could use my left hand under the attachment to “catch” the sheets or the cut pasta and I could feed it through and kinda keep it straight with my right hand.
I was talking with C.J. earlier in the day and you know that always results in trouble! 🙂 Not so much today. She was telling me that she’s been making pasta using half emmer.
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It was funny because I didn’t think I had any emmer and have been waiting for Azure Standard to get it back in stock. Just this morning I unpacked a box that had an unopened 5 pound bag of emmer. I brought it upstairs and was going to pour it into half gallon jars today and then I ended up using some of it for the pasta dough.
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I was going to make a 3 egg batch but the eggs were kinda small and the flour/olive oil amounts depend on the weight of the eggs so I added a fourth egg.
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I still can’t get over how easy it was to make the pasta with that attachment.
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Here it is all cooked and ready to be served.
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The pasta was cut but I hadn’t cooked it yet and I still wasn’t sure what I was going to do for the rest of the meal. I knew I wanted a cream sauce and I wanted to use leftover roasted chicken.
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This is what cajun sausage looks like! I had those two pieces in the fridge so I browned those, added onions, garlic, some yellow squash and zucchini from the garden.
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I added a bit of flour to brown, then the leftover roasted chicken, as well as the pan drippings I had saved from when I roasted the chicken, then poured in cream, added seasonings, parmesan cheese and fresh basil from the garden.
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It was delicious and Vince seemed very happy with it.
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Here’s the pasta attachment after I finished using it. Not a crumb of residue from the pasta dough. You’re not supposed to wet it, just brush the crumbs out. I took it off the mixer, looked underneath it and through it and there just weren’t any crumbs so I considered it clean enough and put it all away. Can’t beat that!
Dottie says
YUMMY!!!
Helen says
Looks good. What is emmer?
Linda Garcia says
Awesome looking pasta. I don’t have this attachment, but I have 3 or 4 other ones. They all work great! Love my kitchenaide.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Do you have the citrus juicer attachment? I was thinking about getting that one.
Susan says
My only problem with homemade pasta is that it is soooo good. As a result we eat way too much. Enjoy the pasta maker. Love mine.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I can understand that problem and I may have to hide that attachment from myself.