Home made pasta

I had 3 almost overdue chicken drumsticks in my freezer and was supposed to make something out of it for dinner. As we have always been eating drumsticks for curry and teriyaki sauce, I decided to make something really different this time round. Spent a long time searching online and decided to make chicken lasagne!

Since I had a day off from uni due to the 2nd round of strike (again?!), I felt ambitious and attempted to make everything from scratch! And the food came out great and delicious!

The whole preparation and cooking procedure took me a whole 4 hours. So do try out this when you have the time! Especially try making your own pasta! It tastes really great and different from the instant ones which you dump it in the boiling water!

As the procedures for making the lasagne is too long, I will divide this into 3 different parts:

- Home made pasta

- Chicken Lasagne

- Simple and fast pasta

HOME MADE PASTA:

*The following ingredients are for 2 portions of lasagne.

Ingredients:

- 1 and 1/2 cup of flour

- 3 eggs

- olive oil

Methods:

1. Pour the flour on a dry and clean surface.

2. Make a well in the centre of the flour.

3. Crack the eggs and put it in the centre of the well.

4. Mix up the egg using fingers.

5. Gradually draw flour into the egg from the side.

6. Gradually add more flour from the sides.

7. Add 1 tbsp of olive oil into the mixture.

8. Keep working the dough till it becomes a ball.

9. Knead it for a few minutes until it becomes a compact ball.

10. Wrap the dough in cling wrap for 20 minutes (so that it does not dry up)

11. Put some flour on the table top.

12. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough.

13. Turn the dough over and leave it to relax occasionally.

14. You may add more flour to make sure that the dough does not stick on the surface.

15. Roll it out as thin as possible ( till it is possible to see a magazine cover underneath the dough).

16. Hang the dough over something to airdry if for storage.

17. You may cut them into any sizes you want it to be, but make sure you cut it thinner than the actual size you want it to be.

18. Add some flour and airdry it a little before cooking.

There are many videos available online. Here is a good one!

Do take a look first before attempting, you will have a rough idea about how to make it.

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