Homemade Pappardelle Pasta with Mushrooms, Green Peas, and Asparagus

Name: Homemade Pappardelle Pasta with Mushrooms, Green Peas, and Asparagus
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters (1-inch) sliced asparagus; 1 bay leaf; 1 teaspoons butter; 1 Tbsp butter; 1 carrot, quartered; 1 celery stalk, quartered; 118 milliliters dried porcini mushrooms; 2 larges eggs, lightly beaten; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour, divided; 1 Tbsp chopped fresh chives; 1 garlic clove; 1 garlic clove, minced; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 small onion, quartered; 57 grams 1/2 cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese; 118 milliliters fresh or frozen petite green peas; 1 teaspoon saffron threads; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 Tbsp diced shallot; 8 shiitake mushroom stems; 8 larges shiitake mushroom caps, quartered; 6 thyme sprigs; 237 milliliters fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth; 59 milliliters water

Homemade Pappardelle Pasta with Mushrooms, Green Peas, and Asparagus requires about 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 5. One serving contains 385 calories, 14g of protein, and 14g of fat. A couple people really liked this main course. Head to the store and pick up butter, carrot, vegetable broth, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

To prepare pasta, combine saffron and 1/4 cup water in a saucepan. Cook over low heat 10 minutes; cool. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

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Saffron

All Purpose Flour

Pasta

Water

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Sauce Pan

Knife

Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and salt in a bowl. Make a well in center of mixture; add 3 tablespoons saffron water, 1 tablespoon oil, and eggs. Stir to form a dough. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; shape into a ball. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 to 15 minutes); add remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands. Dust dough lightly with flour, and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill 1 hour.

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Saffron

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

Salt

Wrap

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

Divide dough in half. Working with 1 portion at a time, pass dough through smooth rollers of pasta machine on the widest setting. Continue moving width gauge to narrower settings; pass dough through rollers once at each setting, dusting with flour, if needed. Repeat procedure with remaining half of dough.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Pasta

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Pasta Machine

Cut dough portions into 8 x 1-inch strips. Hang pasta on a wooden drying rack (no longer than 30 minutes).

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Dough

Pasta

To prepare mushroom broth, melt 1 tablespoon butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

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Mushrooms

Butter

Broth

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Sauce Pan

Add porcinis and next 7 ingredients (porcinis through bay leaf); cook 5 minutes.

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Bay Leaves

Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer until reduced to 1 1/4 cups (about 25 minutes). Strain broth through a sieve into a bowl; reserve 3/4 cup broth. Discard solids.

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