Name: How to make homemade spelt flour pasta step by step
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 egg; 100 grams White Spelt flour; 1 tsp sea salt; 1 tbsp Olive Oil (opcional)

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Spelt pasta with tomato sauce chopped basil and parmesan cheese.

Making homemade pasta using spelt flour is a simple and fulfilling task, and a lovely activity to do with your kids.

Fresh pasta is a nice change from the ready-made pasta, and why not include your kids in the making process?

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Spelt

Spelt flour is an ancient grain flour that works well in all baking. It has a delicious, wheaty, nutty flavour, is high in nutrients, and higher in fibre, fat, and protein than most wheat varieties.

Because it is not a highly processed grain, it contains less gluten than wheat flour, making it easier to digest and a better choice for individuals who can’t tolerate gluten.

I buy my spelt flour here.

Different ways to make homemade spelt pasta:

You can make it entirely by hand with a rolling pin and knife.

By hand and a pasta machine, which children get very excited about!

You can also just put all the pasta ingredients in a food processor or a dough mixer.

If you want to create a more meaningful experience for your children, I recommend making it by hand.

I will go through the two processes of making homemade spelt pasta, with the pasta maker and by hand.

How to make homemade spelt pasta

With pasta machine:

Ingredients per (adult) person:

1 egg
100 grams of white Spelt Flour
1 tsp Sea Salt
1tbsp of Olive Oil (optional)

What you need:

Pasta machine
A fork
A dough cutter (optional)
Pasta drier (optional)

spelt pasta ingredients 3 eggs salt and flour tin

Method:

Mix the spelt flour with the salt in a bowl or on a clean work surface.

Make a hole in the middle and add the eggs and oil. Mix it with a fork and start adding the flour, working it with your hands until you have a smooth dough.

spelt pasta, flour with three eggs on a wooden surface.

Spelt pasta, mixing of the flour and the egg with a fork.

spelt pasta, a round ball of dough on a wooden surface.

Knead the pasta dough for 15 minutes and let the dough rest for half an hour at room temperature.

Divide the dough into pieces and, starting with the thickest setting on the Pasta machine, start stretching the divided dough into pasta sheets.

So start in 7 (thickest), and pass it once, sprinkle flour, fold it and pass it one more time on set 7.

Then move to the next set, 6 or 5 and repeat the process time on 5 and then keep going down the settings, repeating the process until 2 or 1 (thinnest).

Spelt pasta, three cut pieces of dough and a dough cutter on a wooden surface.

Spelt pasta, pasta maker with arrow indicating thickness wheel

Spelt pasta, pasta maker and a child holding the dough passing through it

When the pasta sheets are the desired thickness, pass the flattened dough through the cutting mode.

The ideal thickness would be thin enough that when you blow the dough it moves.

spelt pasta, a child sprinkling flour on a stretch piece of pasta dough. — spelt pasta

Choose the pasta shape you want: fettuccine (wide noodles) or spaghetti (thin noodles). Sprinkle the work surface with flour

Every time you finish cutting a pasta sheet, sprinkle the pasta with more flour and let it air dry for 20-30 minutes.

Homemade fresh spaghetti spelt pasta on a floury wooden surface.

COOKING:

Cook like any other type of pasta, in salted water in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, add the pasta gently to the boiling water.

Cook for about 5 minutes or until you see the pasta floating.

Rinse, add butter or oil and serve with parmesan cheese, tomato sauce or homemade pesto.

Two plates of spelt pasta and tomato sauce, and cheese.One fettuccine and the other spaghetti.

Variations:

You can simply change the spelt flour to any type of flour: whole grain spelt flour, white wheat flour

How to cut the pasta without a pasta machine:

A hand cutting rolled dough of spelt pasta, the fresh spelt pasta cut and a plate of cooked spelt pasta, basil and a bowl of tomato sauce.

(The recipe. It is the same as with the pasta machine.

spelt pasta process, rolling pin and 4 pieces of spelt pasta dough, hands stretching the spelt pasta, rolling pin stretching the dough and a hand with flour on the stretch dough.

Divide the dough into the amount you made per person.

Start by stretching the dough with your hands first, then with the rolling pin.

Sprinkle with flour.

Then, fold in half and then fold it again, and stretch with a rolling pin.

spelt pasta, a hand folding the stretched spelt pasta dough, a rolling pin rolling the dough, the open dough and rolling pin, folded dough with hands sprinkling flour.

a triangle of folded spelt pasta dough, a rolling pin, rolling the dough, stretching the dough and hands rolling it with a rolling pin, and sprinkling flour.

Open it and stretch it again, sprinkle with flour and fold again. Do this as many times as you need to get the dough thin enough.

Stretch it a bit more, and then sprinkle with flour and start rolling it. (as shown in the pictures)

Process of rolling the spelt pasta dough

Process of cutting the rolled spelt pasta dough.

With a Sharp knife, cut the dough into the width you want your pasta, around 1cm.

Sprinkle with flour and let rest for 20 minutes.

If you have one, you can hang the pasta to dry on a pasta drying rack; otherwise, just leave them on a flour surface.

Simple Tomato sauce

A blue bowl of tomato sauce with basil on two and a wooden spoon

This is a simple tomato sauce recipe to go along with your pasta.

It has some optional vegetables, which are a great way for your kids to eat vegetables. You can add and “hide” all those vegetables that your child would not eat!

I like to start preparing it while the pasta dough is resting.

You will need:

Ingedients:

3 or 4 cloves of garlic
1 small onion
Salt and pepper
oregano, basil,bay leaf
Fresh or tin of tomatoes

Optional:

Carrots
pepper
Croquette
Mushrooms

Method:

On a cutting board, with a sharp knife, chop the garlic and onion

hands chopping onion on a wooden chopping board .

Heat a saucepan with a bit of olive oil, and cook the onion over low heat.

When the onion is transparent, add the garlic. Subsequently, add the vegetables, if any.

Then add the tomatoes and water, stir and add condiments.

If adding fresh condiments like basil or oregano, add them just before you finish cooking.

Cook for 30 minutes to an hour at low heat. Stirring occasionally and making sure it doesn’t dry up.

a blue bowl with tomato sauce with basil, and a picture of a plate with cooked spelt pasta with tomato sauce and basil

Pesto:

Ingredients

Fresh basil leaves
1 small Garlic clove
Nuts
Lemon (optional)
Parmesan cheese.

Method

First, in a mortar and pestle, crush the nuts until creamy.

Then, cut half a garlic clove and crush it in.

Add the basil and mint and crush.

And to finish, grate the cheese and add the olive oil, and crush them together until the desired consistency.