Homemade Orecchiette with Cabbage, Dill & Pancetta

Name: How to cook Homemade Orecchiette with Cabbage, Dill & Pancetta - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Celeste

Homemade Orecchiette with Cabbage, Dill & Pancetta

I saw loads of recipes for this online, even Martha Stewart did one, but she used dry orecchiette. She is a very busy woman: I am a stay at home mum; so I thought I'd make my own. I looked at Mario Batali's recipe, then went ahead and did it a different way. Weekend lunch maybe?

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 servings

Cooking time :

1 hour

1 cup

semolina, plus extra to dust tray

1/2 cup

typ '00' or all purpose flour, plus extra for dusting

1/3 cup

hand-warm water

1/4

savoy cabbage, shredded and chopped into 1 inch pieces

2 tbsp

butter

2 tbsp

fresh dill, chopped

8 slice

thinly sliced smoked pancetta, broiled until crispy on both sides

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Put semolina and flour in a bowl.

* Step 2

Make a well in the middle with your hand and add the water bit by bit, swirling your hand til it makes a dough.

* Step 3

Put the dough onto a floured surface and knead it, adding more flour to the surface if it sticks, and knead for 10 minutes.

* Step 4

Spray a piece if plastic wrap with cooking spray or a little olive oil wiped over with kitchen paper, then wrap the dough and refridgerate it for 30 minutes

* Step 5

Put a large pot of salt water on to boil.

* Step 6

Take out the dough and sprinkle a baking tray with semolina.

* Step 7

Put flour on the work surface, and on your hands.

* Step 8

Take a piece of dough about the size of a glass marble, roll into a ball in the palm if your hand, then cup your palm, place your other thumb firmly into the middle of the ball of dough and drag it down towards your wrist to make a curled 'ear' shape out of the bit of dough. Let it drop off your hand onto the baking tray

* Step 9

Get more flour on your hand and repeat until all the dough is used up.

* Step 10

Shake the orecchiette off the tray, carefully into the boiling water. You may need to use a slotted spoon to gently move them off the bottom off the pan. Give the pan a shake to move them about a bit.