Fresh pasta with minced meat, tomato sauce and olives

As with all my pasta recipes, I’m making the pasta myself but I’ll also note down in the recipe when you can start cooking the pasta.

If you are making fresh pasta start with prepping the pasta dough. Take 200 gr of pasta flour and mix this (in you food processor) with 2 eggs and a dash of salt. Once the dough is becoming a nice boll, you put the dough in a bowl in the fridge. You can already put a pan with water on the stove, do the same when you are using dried pasta.

Peel and fine slice the onion. Chop the thyme. Put a frying pan on the stove and add a bit of olive oil. Chop the olives into thin slices.

Peel the garlic, cut it in half, remove the root and squeeze the garlic into the frying pan. Add the onion, fry the onion and the garlic for 2 min. Add the meat and the thyme and fry the minced meat.

If you are using dried pasta, add it into the boiling water now.

Now that all ingredients are ready to be used, it’s time to start prepping the pasta.

Make sure your counter top is clean and dry so to roll out the pasta dough. Cover your counter top with some flour and roll out the pasta dough until you can cut it into pieces that fit into the pasta machine.

Pull the pasta sleeves approx.. 3 times through the pasta machine. For this dish I’ve used tagliatelle. So once the sleeves are thin enough you can take them through the tagliatelle shaper. After this, hang them on your drying rack.

Add sea salt and olive oil to the boiling water. Put the fresh pasta in the pan. It needs to boil for 5 minutes.

Stir the meat, add the olives and the tomato passata. Heat up the stove until it boils.

Rinse the pasta and put the pasta on the plates. Add the sauces and finish off with some ricotta and pesto.