Chestnut pasta

Monica shares her homemade chestnut pasta dough recipe, using Italian chestnut flour (farina di castagna), which is finely ground and full of flavour.

📝 Ingredients

• 400 g of chestnut flour
• 200 g of whole wheat flour
• 200 g of 00 flour
• 6 eggs
• 1 pinch of salt

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Combine the flours on a large clean table and form a well in the middle of the flour pile
2. 2Break the eggs into the well, add a pinch of salt and mix together with your hands. Knead for about 3 minutes, until you get a soft, pliable dough. Cover the dough with a cloth and leave to rest for half an hour
3. 3Roll out the pasta dough as thinly as possible (using a rolling pin or a pasta maker) then cut into whatever shape you’d like. I like thin ribbons, squares, or rounds for ravioli. If you’re not using a pasta maker, a pizza slicer is a handy tool for this
4. 4If you’re not going to cook the pasta straight away, dust the pasta with semolina or flour and drape it over a rack to dry. Alternatively, cook the pasta immediately in a pan of boiling, salted water until al dente (4-5 minutes)