Synopses & Reviews
Learn how to use the best ingredients and simple, classic techniques to make fresh, homemade pasta in your own kitchen with Making Artisan Pasta. Calling for just the simplest ingredients and a handful of unique kitchen tools, making pasta at home has never been easier, more fun, or more delicious.
Inside, you'll find:
- Recipes for pasta doughs made completely from scratch, with such delicious ingredients as buckwheat and whole wheat flour, roasted red pepper, asparagus, and even squid ink and chocolate
- Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions for rolling, shaping, and stuffing dough for gnocchi, lasagna, cannelloni, pappardelle, tagliatelle, ravioli, and dozens of other styles of pasta
- Detailed instructions on how to make the ultimate in pasta: hand-stretched dough
- Chinese pot stickers, Polish pierogi, Turkish manti, and other delectable pastas from beyond its traditional Italian borders
- Artisan tips to help anyone, from novice to experienced, make unforgettable pasta
Through author and chef Aliza Green’s pasta expertise and encyclopedic knowledge of all things culinary, plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato, you’ll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again.
Making Artisan Pasta is on Cooking Light's Top 100 Cookbooks of the Last 25 Years list for Best Technique and Equipment.
Review
"James Beard Award winner Green teams up again with photographer Legato (after The Fishmonger’s Apprentice) to produce a beautifully photographed directory on how to make all types of pasta in your own kitchen, with just a few kitchen tools. And don’t think only of Italian—there are a few representative recipes from other countries, such as pot stickers, pierogi, and udon noodles. Recipes vary by shape, flour type, and flavoring. By following the easy, step-by-step instructions and hundreds of photographs, readers will be inspired to make their own delicious creations. The book contains many useful extras such as nutrition information, resources, and a glossary, but those who want to serve a homemade sauce along with their pasta fresca may need to consult another resource. VERDICT: This is a terrific choice for any library as it will be useful for both experts and novices alike. Mangia!"—Library Journal
Synopsis
James Beard Award-winning author Aliza Green shows you how to use the best ingredients and simple, classic techniques to make fresh, homemade pasta in your own kitchen. *Named one of the Top 100 Cookbooks of the Last 25 Years for Best Technique and Equipment by Cooking Light*
With hundreds of gorgeous photos from acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions that call for just the simplest ingredients and a handful of unique kitchen tools, making pasta at home has never been easier, more fun, or more delicious.
As if you were standing by her side in the kitchen, Aliza offers a thorough course on the art of making pasta, from selecting ingredients and mastering different types of doughs to making a range of classic and creative shapes and flavors. This foundation combined with helpful tips from her many years of experience and bits of history on pasta traditions in Italy and around the world make this the only pasta-making book you'll need.
Making Artisan Pasta features:
- Recipes for pasta doughs made completely from scratch, with delicious ingredients including buckwheat and whole wheat flour, roasted red pepper, asparagus, squash, porcini mushroom, and even squid ink and chocolate
- Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions for rolling, shaping, and stuffing dough for gnocchi, lasagna, cannelloni, pappardelle, tagliatelle, ravioli, and dozens of other styles of pasta
- Detailed instructions on how to make the ultimate in pasta: hand-stretched dough
- Chinese pot stickers, Polish pierogi, Turkish manti, and other delectable pastas from beyond its traditional Italian borders
- Artisan tips to help anyone, from novice to experienced, make unforgettable pasta
Making Artisan Pasta brings to you the satisfying pleasure of working with your hands using simple tools to create fresh artisan pasta to share with your family and friends.
Synopsis
Homemade rules in the kitchen, and everyone from artisan bakers to canners and picklers know it.Culinary enthusiasts and hungry home cooks are exploring classic skills again, and making homemade, hand-shaped pasta is on the rise. With the simplest ingredients and easier-than-you-think instructions, Making Artisan Pasta teaches you how make your own linguine, ravioli, lasagna, and dozens of other styles of pasta and noodles by hand. The fully illustrated, step-by-step tutorials will walk you through the entire tasty process, from mixing dough, rolling, and shaping pasta through cooking, serving, and storing pasta for later. Going way beyond noodles, though, this book includes tutorials on gnocchi, Chinese pot stickers, pierogi, and dozens of other world pastas. Through author and chef Aliza Green’s expertise and encyclopedia knowledge of all things culinary, plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato, you will learn everything there is to know about making fresh, delicious pasta in your home kitchen….and you’ll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again.
About the Author
Aliza Green is an award-winning Philadelphia-based author, journalist, and influential chef whose books include The Butcher's Apprentice and Making Artisan Pasta(Quarry Books, 2012),The Fishmonger's Apprentice(Quarry Books, 2010), Starting with Ingredients: Baking (Running Press, 2008) and 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 story-telling. Green also leads culinary tours--her next is scheduled for October 2013 to Puglia, Italy, which she calls "land of 1,000-year-old olive trees." 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 http://www.alizagreen.com.
Steve Legato is a freelance photographer specializing in food, restaurant industry, cookbooks and advertising. His work has been featured in Art Culinaire, The New York Times, Food and Wine, Wine Spectator, Food Arts, GQ, Departures, Wine and Spirits, Travel and Leisure, Philadelphia Magazine, Delaware Today, New Jersey Monthly and Main Line Today. He resides just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Visit his website at http://www.stevelegato.com.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
PART I: THE BASICS
CHAPTER ONE: PASTA INGREDIENTS
Water
Eggs
Wheat
CHAPTER TWO: MAKING PASTA DOUGH FROM WHEAT AND OTHER FLOURS
Basic Egg Pasta Dough by Hand
Basic Egg Pasta Dough Using a Heavy-Duty Stand Mixer
Basic Egg Pasta Dough Using a Food Processor
Using Other Flours to Make Pasta Doughs
Whole Wheat Pasta Dough
Buckwheat Pasta Dough
Rye Pasta Dough
Cornmeal-Chipotle Pasta Dough
Semolina Pasta Dough
Methods for Forming Pasta
Hand-Stretched Pasta Dough
Rolling Pasta Dough with a Sheeter
CHAPTER THREE: FLAVORING PASTA DOUGH
Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Dough
Asparagus Pasta Dough
Spinach Pasta Dough (Pasta Verde)
Red Beet Pasta Dough
Squash Pasta Dough
Red Wine Pasta Dough
Porcini Mushroom Pasta Dough
Saffron–White Wine Pasta Dough
Squid Ink Pasta Dough
Chocolate Pasta Dough
Lemon-Pepper Pasta Dough
PART II: THE PASTA
CHAPTER FOUR: DUMPLINGS
Potato Gnocchi
Semolina Gnocchi (Gnocchi alla Romana)
Ravioli Gnudi
Matzo Balls
Spaetzle
Passatelli
CHAPTER FIVE: PASTA SHEETS
Maltagliati
Laminated Parsley Pasta
Lasagna
Cannelloni
CHAPTER SIX: MAKING CUT PASTA
A World of Asian Noodles
Hand-Rolled Alsatian Nouilles
Cappellini
Porcini Tagliatelle
Straw and Hay
Pappardelle and Tagliolini
Pasta alla Chitarra
Buckwheat Pizzoccheri
Japanese Udon Noodles
CHAPTER SEVEN: SPECIALTY HAND-FORMED PASTA
Ricotta Cavatelli from Puglia
Sardinian Malloreddus
Genoese Chestnut Corzetti
Garganelli
Chinese Cat’s Ear Noodles (Mao Er Duo)
Pugliese Orecchiette
Umbrian Ombrichelliv
Greek Trahana
CHAPTER EIGHT: STUFFED PASTA
Making Ravioli Using a Plaque
Tortelloni
Tortellini
Caramelle
Pierogi
Chinese Pot Stickers
Ukrainian Sour Cherry Vareniki
Genoese Pansotti
Giant Asparagus Raviolo with Soft-Cooked Egg
Turkish Manti
Siberian Pelmeni
Glossary
Resources
Flour and Grain Weight and Volume Equivalents
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author and Photographer