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Sweet Potato Pasta
If you're looking for interesting fall vegetarian fare, homemade pasta is a people pleaser. By incorporating harvest flavors like sweet potato and winter squash into your dishes, vegetarian main courses become dramatically more than just a meal without meat.
I'm married to a meat eater, but I don't eat meat except for the occasional piece of fish. But with dishes like these, we both feel satisfied. All you really need to pair this with is a baguette and a small green salad.
I adjusted a recipe from Joy of Cooking by leaving out one egg and replacing it with the moisture in the sweet potato. The pasta, however, didn't have a very deep hue because the variety of sweet potato that I used had very little color. Keep adding flour to the mixture until you get a dough consistency that's not too sticky.
INGREDIENTS
| 2 cups | unbleached all purpose flour |
| 2 | large eggs |
| ½ tsp | salt |
| 1 tsp | extra virgin olive oil |
| 2 | sweet potatoes, boiled, peeled |
| 3 tbsp | olive oil |
| 3 | cloves garlic, minced |
| 1 cup | freshly grated parmesan cheese |
| Sea salt | |
| Pepper | |
PREPARATION:
Method
- Form the dough by adding the flour to a clean surface and making a hole in the flour, like a volcano. Add in the egg, salt, olive oil, and sweet potato. Slowly combine until a dough forms. Or you can use the dough attachment in a standing mixer and beat for about 15 seconds.
- Knead for about 10 minutes, until the dough is elastically. Divide into four pieces and wrap up loosely with plastic wrap and cover with a bowl.
- Let the dough rest for 60 minutes. One at a time, unwrap the dough and roll it out. Cut the dough into 1/8 inch thick pieces or use a pasta maker to cut the dough (the second choice is much easier).
- Take about four pieces each, and store pasta pieces in loose coils. Dry on a wire rack for a few hours.
- Heat a large pot of water up to a boil and add 1 tbsp salt to the water. Add pasta but do not walk away. Use a fork to gently loosen the pasta coils so they open up.
- Cook about 2 to 4 minutes at most. Do not over cook. Drain the pasta.
- In a large skillet, sauté the garlic in olive oil until fragrant. Briefly add in the cooked pasta, just to coat. Top with parmesan cheese and serve immediately.
Recipe adapted from Joy of Cooking.
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