Simple homemade pastina / little pasta
The comfort food!
Language Bites
place, add, incorporate, crack eggs, knead, pull,
stretch flour, cut, pat, make a ball, sprinkle, roll out, dry, break, make a
soup, boil or cook.
What do I need?
- 500 gr semola type flour.
- 4 large fresh farm eggs and I mean fresh from the farm!
- Parsley.
- A teaspoon of salt. (taste and add more in the soup if necessary)
- Beef stock or vegetable soup.
- Homemade pasta equipment: your hands!
- Rolling pin.
Simple steps
- Place the semola on a cutting board, make a well, crack the eggs and put the ingredients into it; remember to incorporate ingredients little by little.
- Knead the dough for at least five minutes until it is smooth; if the dough feels sticky simply add extra semola; pull it and stretch it!
- Pat the dough and form it into a ball with your hands.
- Cut the dough into pieces, sprinkle the cutting board with semola and roll out the pasta by hand using a long rolling pin.
- Make five or six discs/sheets of pasta by rolling out the dough until it reaches the thickness you desire and keep adding semola to the cutting board to stop it from sticking.
- Allow the sheets to dry for about 20 minutes.
- At this point start break the sheets of pasta into small pieces for the brodo/soup.
- Make a beef stock or vegetable soup and cook the Trilli in the soup for 4/5 minutes, sprinkle with parmesan cheese and enjoy!
- Extra tip! Prepare ‘sugo’ instead of soup at Easter time and boil the Trilli in the sauce!