Super Simple Homemade Pasta
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Even if you have no experience at all, you can make Italian pasta like a professional chef in your own home kitchen with the Super Simple Handmade Pasta cookbook, adapted from the best-selling Making Artisan Pasta by James Beard Award–winning author Aliza Green. Perfect for the beginning cook, this book walks you through selecting ingredients and tools, how to use a pasta machine, and shaping, filling, and flavoring pasta—plus how to cook it perfectly and serving ideas. There is nothing complicated in these recipes—only delicious results!
Perfect the classic egg semolina pasta and also learn how to make all sorts of flavored pastas, from the more common tomato spinach pastas to shaped noodles flavored with herbs and spices including basil, chives, pepper, or saffron. Also explore unexpected flavors like beet and sweet potato and even chocolate, all made by hand.
Super Simple Homemade Pasta features:
- Recipes for pasta doughs—Make your own pasta doughs with classic ingredients including buckwheat and whole wheat flour, roasted red pepper, spinach, squash, mushroom, chocolate, and more.
- Step-by-step photo instructions—Following the simple, clear instructions, learn to use a pasta sheeter, an extruder, and a cavatelli maker as well as roll, cut, shape, and stuff dough for gnocchi, lasagna, cannelloni, pappardelle, tagliatelle, ravioli, and dozens of other types of classic Italian pasta.
- Helpful tips—Expert advice and serving suggestions will ensure pasta so beautiful and delicious your family and guests will be clamoring for more.
No need to serve dry, boxed, or frozen pasta again once you’ve easily mastered the recipes in Super Simple Homemade Pasta.
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Aliza Green is an award-winning Philadelphia-based author, journalist, and influential chef whose books include The Butcher’s Apprentice, Making Artisan Pasta (Quarry Books, 2012),The Fishmonger’s Apprentice (Quarry Books, 2010), Starting with Ingredients: Baking (Running Press, 2008), Starting with Ingredients (Running Press, 2006), four perennially popular Field Guides to food (Quirk, 2004–2007), Beans: More than 200 Delicious, Wholesome Recipes from Around the World (Running Press, 2004), and successful collaborations with renowned chefs Guillermo Pernot and Georges Perrier. A former food columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Cooking Light magazine, Green is known for her encyclopedic knowledge of every possible ingredient, its history, culture, and use in the kitchen and bakery and for her lively storytelling. Green also leads culinary tours. Green’s books have garnered high praise from critics, readers, and culinary professionals alike, including a James Beard award for “Best Single-Subject Cookbook” in 2001 for Ceviche!: Seafood, Salads, and Cocktails with a Latino Twist (Running Press, 2001), which she co-authored with Chef Guillermo Pernot. For more information about Aliza’s books and tours or to send her a message, visit her website at alizagreen.com.