Yesterday I made sauerbraten. This is basically a pot roast marinated with spices and vinegar along with vegetables including carrots, cabbage, fennel, celery, onion. This roast was a "2 fer" or "buy one get one free. So I got two roasts for about $4.50! It's been sitting in the freezer long enough!
We made a very small dent in it last night. It 's going to provide at least 3-4 meals. Tonight, first leftovers!
When I got home Wayne had found my cavatelli maker and mounted it on my new baking station. Bought this through Amazon.com about 8 months ago.
PERFECT! Time to make cavatelli!
Ingredients:
2 C flour. I have 00 semolina that I use for pasta, All Purpose flour will work fine.
1/3 C of my yogurt. (Ha, you can't get mine...MAKE SOME OF YOUR OWN...its easy!) Sour cream will be fine or a yogurt without sugar added. Check the ingredients on the container.
2 large eggs
1 tsp salt
Just enough water to make a dough
Steps: I use a food processor....but you could make this by hand....it's even more fun.
1. Combine all the dry ingredients
2. Add the yogurt, let the processor mix it well.
3. Add your eggs.
4. If you've got a nice dough now....quit...don't add any water.
5. Take the dough out, knead it a bit with flour.
6. Roll into a tube and wrap in plastic wrap.
7. Let it sit at room temp for at LEAST 30 min. This allows the gluten to develop and makes a very smooth and soft dough
7. Now cut the roll into long pieces and then roll with your hands into long rolls, about an inch in diameter.
8. IF you have a cavatelli maker, just insert between the rolls and turn the crank. The maker rolls and cuts the cavatelli. You can do this by hand but you have to cut into pieces first about 1/2 inch long and then roll and squash with a fork.
This is what mine look like.
I'm going to ladle leftover gravy on them.
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