Eggless Pasta Dough - 15 mins

Eggless Pasta Dough

This is one of the easiest and simplest recipes to make, since it requires less time and ingredients. Most people prefer to use a pasta machine but this recipe is to those whom a pasta machine isnt available. Yup, it is eggless pasta dough without a machine



Where I learnt it from: Google

Approx prep time: 15mins
Approx cook time: N/A 
Serves: 2 people

Cuisine: Italian 
Part of menu: Not to be served raw 
Hot/Cold: N/A

Ingredients:

• 50g plain flour
• 50g all-purpose flour 
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Water
• Salt to taste

Major Equipment: None

Preparation:

1. Mix the flours and salt in a bowl
2. Use your fingers and a fork to mix the flours
3. keep adding water gradually to the bowl
4. When you notice that the flour is beginning to become stickier, add the olive oil
5. Remove the dough onto your work space and work it by hand
6. Do not over-stretch or overwork the dough 

Plating Suggestion: Use to cook different types of pasta.

If you have and questions or suggestions (or want me to put up the recipe of something) Please feel free to comment. Thanks and Happy Cooking.

Three Cheese Bechamel Lasagna - 2 hours

Three Cheese Bechamel Lasagna

Who doesn't like a good lasagna? This one is called a Bechamel Lasagna because of the sauce used in it - Bechamel or white sauce. You can add many veggies to your lasagna but here I am putting it up with just parsley and spinach.




Where I learnt it from: From the internet
Recipe requested by : My friend, Sandeep

Approx prep time: 20 min
Approx cook time: 1.5 hours
Serves: 6 people

Cuisine: Italian
Part of menu: Main Course
Hot/Cold: Hot

Ingredients:

• 6 sheets of lasagna (defrosted). Alternatively you could use home-made pasta dough
• 1.5 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
• 0.5 cups grated Parmesan Cheese
• 1 cup skim Ricotta Cheese
• 2.5 cups Bechamel sauce
• 100g baby spinach 
• Butter

Major Equipment: 

• Oven

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C
2. Spread flour over your work area to prevent dough from sticking
3. Make the dough into 6 equal sized ping-pong balls
4. Roll them into flat thin sheets. 
5. Use a knife to cut them into equal square shaped sheets
6. <--Start here if you are using store bought lasagna--> 
7. In a bowl, mix the three cheeses, using butter to bind them
8. Add Parsley and spinach in bowl

Cooking: 

1. Grease baking g bowl
2. Add a little of the sauce at the bottom of the tray.
3. Put a sheet of Lasagna and top with sauce and the filling 
4. Keep adding layers of lasagna and filling until 6 sheets of lasagna is used and filling is over.
5. Drizzle remaining sauce over the last sheet, covering it 
6. Bake for approximately 1 hour
7. Remove from oven and serve
8. Garnish with little grated Parmesan

Plating Suggestion: Serve in the baking tray. Let it rest for about 15 minutes after baking. Serve warm

If you have and questions or suggestions (or want me to put up the recipe of something) Please feel free to comment. Thanks and Happy Cooking.

Bechamel Sauce - 10 min

Bechamel Sauce

Bechamel sauce is a traditional Italian Sauce usually made to accompany pasta or serve as a dip. Commonly known as White sauce, the main ingredient in this sauce is Milk. Because of it's white colour and cheesy taste, It is also often called Cheese sauce; although, it can actually be made without cheese as well.




Where I learnt it from: My father
Approx prep time: 5 min
Approx cook time: 5 mins
Serves: 3 cups 

Cuisine: Italian 
Part of menu: Sauce
Hot/Cold:N/A

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 4 tablespoons of flour
• 3 cups milk
• Salt
• Black pepper

Major Equipment : None

Preparation: 

1. Melt the butter in a pot 
2. Add the flour and move to a low flame
3. Keep stiring
4. Gradually add the milk
5. Once the sauce thickens, add the salt and black pepper 

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to post comments. Enjoy cooking!

Orange Granita - 5 minutes

Orange Granita

It is an very easy dessert and let me warn you, very cold to. It is basically frozen flavored ice. I am going to tell you how to make Orange granita, but to make a different flavor, all you have to do is change the syrup. ;)






Where I learnt it from: Masterchef

Approx prep time: 5 minutes
Approx cook time: 0 min. (Setting time 5 hours)
Serves: 4 people


Cuisine: British
Part of menu: Desert
Hot/Cold: Hot

Ingredients:

• 150 milliliters Orange syrup 
• Orange peel, small pieces (known as orange zest)
• 350 milliliters water

Major Equipment: 

• Setting tray

Preparation:

1. Pour water into setting tray
2. Add syrup and stir with a spoon. Keep adding till a orangish colour is noticed.
3. Add the orange zest and keep in freezer/ blast chiller
4. After 5 hours, remove set granita

Cooking: None

Plating Suggestion: Scrape the ice with a fork. It should produce a small ice crystals. Serve in a bowl cold

If you have and questions or suggestions (or want me to put up the recipe of something) Please feel free to comment. Thanks and Happy Cooking.