2 Ingredient Kamut Pasta
Beginner's step by step guide to 100% whole Kamut fettuccine pasta from scratch.
Equipment
- 1 digital scale ( alternate: measuring cup )
- 1 grain mill ( if grinding Kamut berries )
- 1 Danish dough whisk ( alternate: fork )
- 1 medium sized mixing bowl
- 1 silicone bowl scraper ( alternate: plastic knife )
- 1 non stick baking mat ( optional )
- 1 6-quart wide saute pan ( alternate: pasta pot )
- 1 spider strainer ( alternate: spaghetti server )
Ingredients
Pasta
- 200 g Kamut berries ( 1 ½cups ) ( alternate: store bought whole Kamut or durum flour )
- 110 g filtered water ( ½ cup ) ( alternate: distilled water )
Dusting surfaces
- all purpose flour or spare Kamut flour
Pasta water
- 40 g non iodized salt ( 2 tablespoons ) per 4 liters (roughly 1 gallon) of water
Instructions
Prepare the flour
- Measure out 200 grams of Kamut wheat berries.
- If using a home stone mill, set to coarse grind and mill into cracked Kamut.
- After coarse grind is milled, set mill to fine grind and pass the cracked Kamut through.
Mix the dough
- Using a Danish dough whisk, combine the flour and water until you get to a crumbly dough.
- Use hands to roll dough into a ball, and let rest in a tightly covered bowl or closed Ziploc bag for an hour at room temperature or up to half a day in the refrigerator.
Pasta Machine Kneading
- Retrieve dough from bowl and separate into two parts with bowl scraper.
- Keep one part in covered bowl as you work on the other part.
- Flour dough generously with all purpose flour so it will not stick to roller.
Pass through first setting 6 times
- Flatten dough out with a rolling pin to slightly less than the width of the pasta machine opening and around 5 millimeters in thickness (about a quarter inch).
- Set pasta machine to widest opening and pass the floured dough through.
- Using longest part of dough, fold right third over to the center.
- Fold left third over to the center as in folding a letter.
- Use rolling pin to flatten dough slightly then pass through the pasta machine again at the same setting.
- Repeat this process six times to achieve a well kneaded dough.
- Fold dough over another time before returning to bowl and covering.
- Follow same process to knead remaining piece of dough.
Rest
- Rest the dough for 30 minutes at room temperature or up to half a day in the refrigerator.
Stretch out the dough
- Retrieve one of the two folded dough pieces from bowl.
- Flour and roll out with rolling pin to about a quarter inch thickness.
- Pass dough through setting 1.
- Change to setting 2 and pass dough through.
- Continue to pass dough through setting 3 and then 4.
- After setting 4, divide dough sheet into two.
- Pass dough sheets sequentially through settings 5, 6 and 7.
- At setting 7, the dough should be thin enough that you can see through it.
- Divide dough sheets another time using bowl scraper edge. You should have 4 sheets around 10 inches in length.
- Leave the dough sheets to dry on a flat non stick surface for around 15 minutes while you repeat the same process to stretch out the piece of dough left in the covered bowl.
Cut the fettucine noodles
- Once the dough sheets are slightly dry but still pliable, start passing the sheets through the fettuccine roller setting.
- Flour the noodles after they exit the cutter and move them around gently so that they are well coated on all sides and do not stick to each other.
- At this stage, noodles can be left to dry at room temperature if desired. In such a case, turn them around a few times over a day or two and then place in freezer. Whether cooking the noodles fresh or from the freezer, same instructions below apply.
Cook the noodles
- Bring a wide pan of salted water to a rolling boil.
- Place half of the noodles in the pot and wait until they float to the surface.
- Once the noodles have floated to the surface, set timer for 3 minutes. By then noodles should be soft but still chewy.
- Remove noodles with a spider and place in a bowl.
- Return pot of water to a boil and add remaining noodles.
- Flavor noodles with sauce of your choice and serve immediately.
- Enjoy some of the best noodles you are likely to have ever tasted! :)