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RIGATONI ALLA VODKA

RIGATONI ALLA VODKA

Rigatoni Pasta

300gm semolina

2 eggs (+ water to make a total of 140gm)

  1. Place your semolina in a stand mixer bowl and leave to the side. In seperate bowl add you eggs and water and whisk together until cohesive. Prep your stand mixer with paddle attachment, pour your wet ingredients into your semolina with the stand mixer on low speed. Once wet is all in, bring to medium speed and bring dough together until it resembles a coarse sand (2-3 minutes). You should be able to put it in your hands and have mould quite easily.

  2. Pop your pasta extractor/press on with a rigatoni pasta plate and push your dough into it halfway, using a cylinder object to push it in. You want the bottom half of your press full at all times. The first few inches of rigatoni remove as it will be curly and dry, but once thats gone allow your rigatoni to fall to a thumb length and then cut when you have reached your desired size.

Vodka Tomato Sauce

1/2 cup olive oil

250gm variety cherry tomatoes (halved)

4 garlic cloves (thinly sliced)

1 shallot (thinly sliced)

1 knob butter

1 cipollini onion (finely diced)

1 tbl sp tomato paste

1/4 cup vodka

1/4 cup cream

1/4 cup grana padano (finely grated)

1 tea sp red chilli flakes

Chives to garnish (finely diced)

  1. Place 1/4 cup olive oil in pan and bring to high heat before adding your tomatoes, garlic and shallot. Cook on medium high for around 25 minutes, adding a dash of cold water every so often so that is doesn’t burn. Remove from heat and puree with blender. Place to the side.

  2. Place water (heavily salted) on the boil and bring to rolling high heat

  3. In a new pan on medium low heat add 1/4 cup olive oil, butter and melt, before adding your cipollini onion and cook until translucent (5-7 minutes), stir through your tomato paste, then add your vodka, before adding back in your blended tomato sauce. Cook stirring altogether on medium heat for a minute.

  4. Cook your pasta to just off al dente (60-75 seconds), strain and place into vodka tomato sauce. Add in your cream, grana padano and red chilli flakes and bring altogether. Finish with some fresh chives.