Hi I’m Courtney and we hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks kids recipes. I am so proud to be working with Coles to support the Stephanie Alexander, Kitchen Garden Foundation. Tonight I’ll be cooking a handmade semolina pasta, with a fresh tomato and garlic sauce.
So let’s get started. The first thing we need to do is chop our tomatoes and you guys want to do your bridge hold of the tomatoes and we just want to slice down. We now need to dice the tomatoes. So you can do your “bear grip” or your “tiger grip”. Keep your fingers tucked out of the way. All of the tomatoes are diced up. So we’ve got 4 cloves of garlic and you can just use your “rock and chop” to roughly dice these.
So I’ve got about 2 tablespoons of olive oil that we’re going to pop into our pan. And we can go in with the garlic. Put in our tomatoes. You want a good pinch of salt and we also need a little bit of sugar. The tomato sauce is smelling amazing. You can see it’s reduced down a little bit.
Ok for our hand-made pasta today there’s lots of different recipes but this is the easiest of them all.
All we’re using is some water and some semolina flour. And we’re using our clean hands to start to work that flour into the water. And you’re wanting to get this to a really nice dough consistency and we’re going to do what’s called kneading. Now this pasta dough has become really nice and soft and smooth. All we need to do now is let this rest.
Alright our pasta dough has had it’s 20 minutes resting and we’re going to cut it into 6 portions. So now that that’s rolled out we can start to nip pieces of dough and give it a roll. And then using your three middle fingers, press down on the pasta and then roll it towards you. I’ve got some boiling water here and we need to add some sea salt. And then we can just lower this into the water and it will start to rise up and tell you when it’s cooked.
Look at that beautiful big bowl of hearty pasta. Really simple to make. Really lots of fun as well.
So I'm just going to top my pasta with this beautiful tomato and garlic sauce. And there you have it handmade semolina pasta with a fresh tomato and garlic sauce.
We hope this week has inspired you to get in the kitchen with your kids and loads of great ideas for mothers day too. For this and many other fantastic recipes head over to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation and Coles websites.
Happy cooking!