Macaroni (basic recipe)

Macaroni (basic recipe)

»» Italian name: Maccheroni al Ferretto (ricetta base)

Cooking Recipes (Sardinia - Italy)


Ingredients:

• 300 g of fine semolina
• 2 eggs
• wheat flour
• 1 pinch saffron
• pecorino q.b.
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• salt

Preparation:
Traditional maccarrones ferritus to prepare in a very very original.
Mix the flour with the first egg, 2 tablespoons olive oil, saffron and a pinch of salt until dough is soft but compact, then cover it with a clean tea towel and let rest for at least 1 hour in a warm place and away from drafts.
After this time, remove from the mixture, the small pieces, about the size of a walnut and roll it out one by one to pastry very thin, so you get many squares of approximately 8 cm side.
Sprinkle lightly with flour so that they do not stick and then equipe a knitting needle rather large (about ferritu), place it in the center of the small puff pastry and roll it to wrap around the knitting needle, shows the iron and Put the pasta gradually to dry on a clean cloth and lightly floured.
When the young bucatini are dry, cook in salted water like pasta joint and then season with olive oil and pecorino cheese, or with sauce normally used for pasta.