Recipe Bitter Chocolate Pasta (Pasta di Cacao)

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OK - I know. Chocolate pasta really? Yep, really. Actually it should be cocoa pasta but Cacao tend to get translated as chocolate into English....

There are 2 versions of this. The sweet and the bitter. This is the bitter one, you can get the sweetness from your sauce! I will also add a recipe, almost identical to this one for the sweet version in another thread.

Ingredient - very simple.
150g '00' Pasta Flour
50g Cocoa powder (preferably Dutch Processed) or cacao powder.
2 eggs, beaten
1-2tbsp cold water

Method

1. Combine the flour and the cocoa/cacao powder in a bowl.
2. Add the beaten eggs, and working into a dough. If it is a little dry add a little water, a teaspoon or two at a time. If it is too wet, just add a little more flour and work in. You want a dry dough.
3. Tip it out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead it for roughly 10 mins until smooth.
4. Wrap it in clingfilm and allow it to rest for 30 minutes
5. Now cut into manageable sizes, - the rest depends on if you have a pasta maker or not. I don't so my instructions are for a rolling pin. Roll it as thin as you can get it!
6. Now lightly flour the surface so that it is dry and carefully roll into a short, fat cylinder. With a sharp knife, slice into 2-3mm strips (or wider if you prefer). Repeat for the rest of the dough.
7. Cooking in unsalted boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
8. Serve with a suitable sauce of your choice - Nutella melted in a cream sauce, a lightly sweetened cream sauce, a chocolate sauce made from a cream base with dark chocolate melted into it served over strawberries.... you get the idea. One really odd idea that came to mind was that you could serve it with chilli after all chilli traditionally has a couple of pieces of dark chocolate melted into it, so why not serve it with chocolate pasta instead of rice?

 

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Some images of the Bitter chocolate tagliatelle I made.

Rolled and floured ready to roll up.

Rolled and partially sliced.

Sliced and ready to be unravelled.

Ready to be cooked.

 

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And cooked for 2 minutes and ready to be eaten...

 

[Francesca]

@ Sat,

This is phenomenal !!! I am not much of a Baker, or Pastry Enthusiast but this would be magnifcant for my two little grandsons during the Christmas & Three Wise Men ( Ephiphany - January 6th ) Holidays ..

Thank you for posting ..