Fresh pasta with shrimps in tomato sauce

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.

Boil some water for the tomatoes, cut a small cross in the upper skin of the tomatoes and put them in a bowl. Poor the cooking water over it.

Chop the parsley, cut open the red chili pepper, take out the seeds and chop the pepper. Peel off the skin of the garlic, cut the garlic in half and take out the root. Rasp the skin of the lemon and squeeze out the juice of ½ lemon.

Peel off the skin of the shrimps if needed. Make a clean cut in the length of their skin and take out the intestines.

You’ll see that the skin of the tomatoes is coming loose from the tomatoes; drain down the water and just rinse the tomatoes with some really cold water. Peel of the skin, remove the root and mash the tomatoes with your food processor till a nice fresh tomato sauce forms.

Put a baking pan on the stove and add some olive oil. Let the oil heat up.

All the ingredients are ready to be used, so it’s time to start prepping the pasta.

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

Check the oil, once it’s hot you can squeeze the garlic in the pan, add the pepper and the lemon grates. Let it all fry for a moment before adding the shrimps. Put some black pepper on the shrimps and let them bake for a couple of minutes.

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.

Stir the shrimps and add the parsley (keep a little bit aside to garnish the dish).

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 your shrimps once more and add the lemon juice and the tomato sauce, keep stirring and let de sauce boil for a couple of minutes.

Poor down the pasta, put the pasta on the plates, add the shrimps and tomato sauce. Sprinkle some parsley and parmesan cheese on top.

Enjoy!