California Farm Hand Made Orzo Pasta

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Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, 9 dinners
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Hand Made Orzo Pasta

Of all handmade pastas, fresh orzo will amaze you the most with its rich flavor, compared to machine made orzo. The fresh pasta itself has the flavor of fresh breadcrust. Orzo pasta is a rice kernel shaped pasta and absorbes 2/3 more sauce and flavors than pastas, because the rice shaped kernels have more side surface than pastas that are strings. The dough we use to make orzo is very fine spelt hard winter wheat flour. Very fine wheat flour also absorbs more flavors. We use egg yolks only to make the dough, egg whites diminish flavor aborption.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, 9 dinners

Cooking time :

Dough an hour, cook time 15 minutes

2 cups

hard red wheat, makes 4 1/2 cups spelt wheat flour

farm fresh egg yokes

1 Teaspoon

salt

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Make superfine spelt flour from red winter wheat kernels by grinding flour 3 times. Kneed dough and salt with 1 fresh farm egg yoke, add more yokes till you have a spongy dough. I use 4 egg yokes per cup of flour, pinch of salt, spray of olive oil to bind flour and make dough more supple. Save eggwhites to make omelettes.

* Step 2

Flour dust your cutting board. Make four thin orzo dough pancakes per cup of flour from the dough, the thickness of a rice kernel.

* Step 3

Dust pancake with flour, dry till no longer sticky, cut in strips if you have a long kitchen knife, or use kitchen scissors.

* Step 4

If you dont have a long knife, dry the pancakes longer and roll into a pancake roll, slice strips with knife. Cut strips with hatchet into rice kernel size pieces. Flour dust your dry hands and roll orzo pieces till free flowing.

* Step 5

Cut or Chop rice kernel size pieces from strips or rolls with kitchen scissors or hatchet. Flour dust your dry hands and roll orzo pieces till free flowing. Store in freezer bag in freezer till ready to use.

* Step 6

Orzo cooks quicker than most pastas, 10 minutes, great to boil with a fresh egg for a dinner salad with a squeeze of lemon, Tbs each fresh parsley, fresh basil, chopped tomato, chopped green onion, chopped egg, optional tuna in oil, chopped cucumber and grated parmesan cheese. Enjoy.