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Is it possible to make quality dried pasta with cookie cutters?

Asked by Ame_Evil (3051points) March 17th, 2010

I understand one of the problem of making dried pasta is the shaping, however I have recently aquire some awesome cookie cutters (one is a bunny wabbit) and I just had the amazing brainwave of sausage stuffed pasta using these shapes.

So would it be possible to make dried pasta, and would these cutters work for it? Or would it just be easier to make fresh pasta (with egg)? I prefer the taste of dried, but am willing to comprimise with fresh if it isn’t possible or will not anywhere near resemble store bought.

Also any recipe for dried pasta will be appreciated as I cannot seem to google it. I only get recipes for meals using dried pasta.

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marinelife's avatar

Hmm, your difficulty in finding a recipe seems to be because it is not easily done:

“III – Thou Shalt Not Make Thine Own Dry Pasta
In Italy, you have pasta fresca (fresh pasta) and pasta secca (dry pasta), and a common misconception is that the latter is achieved by setting the former out to dry. But they’re fundamentally different products utilizing different ingredients and different techniques. Fresh pasta is easy to make and at its best when you do it yourself. Dry pasta, however, is best left to pasta factories. Making dry semolina pasta with a good bite requires industrial machinery. It absolutely cannot be done by hand, and even home “pasta machines” do a horrible job. Home-extruded pasta is an abomination before the culinary gods.” Source

thriftymaid's avatar

Only if the cutters are extremely small.

Ame_Evil's avatar

mmk fresh pasta it is :D.

Also I have a question with using sausage meat in it – will I need to cook it longer to cook the meat? Or should I cook the sausages before adding it to the pasta. Or is it just fine to eat it as it is virtually raw.

Trillian's avatar

@Ame_Evil A lady named Sylvia had a nice little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Pinetamare and she mad the most awesome stuffed Cannelloni with sausage and mozzarella di buffala. She cooked the sausage first, and partially cooked the shells and then cooled them. She stuffed them and covered them in a lovely marinara sauce and baked them in the oven and I’m almost at orgasm thinking about them.

YARNLADY's avatar

I have cooked wide lasagna and then cut it into shapes, and it worked just fine.

marinelife's avatar

I would use cooked sausage in the pasta.

Ame_Evil's avatar

Cooking the sausage in water is fine? I read some ravioli recipes that do this beforehand and lets it cool.

Ame_Evil's avatar

Hmm additional question. I ate some undercooked sausage earlier and am fine. I had cut a single sausage up (removed the case) and rolled them into balls which I fried for 4–5 mins whilst cooking pasta, but I wasn’t sure if it was cooked on inside. My question is, is sausages only raw when they are pink? This sausage was brown, so was it precooked before? And if so I do not need to cook it again right?

Trillian's avatar

@Ame_Evil I’d need to see the package before I made that call. If it is pre cooked, the package should tell you. When I cook link sausages, I parboil them first, then fry them. If I were doing the recipe for sausage in pasta, I’d chop it up and fry it an a pan. I also would not eat pink sausage.

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