Italian pasta, what a variety of dishes is hidden behind this phrase. Pasta with meat, pasta with vegetables, pasta with fruits. And you can also with ham and melon. Delicious and satisfying. And the pasta itself can not be bought in the store, but you can make it yourself.
Instructions
Step 1
• Prepare a pasta, for this take 1 egg, mix it with 0.5 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of salt, stir, add 1.5 cups of wheat flour (it is better to choose flour from durum wheat), and knead a soft dough. Put the dough on a board, and kneading thoroughly, gradually adding flour, knead the hard dough. Roll out the dough with a long rolling pin, as thin as possible so that the resulting crust becomes almost transparent. Slice the pasta. To make it easier to cut, and the noodles turned out to be even, first make the dough rectangles, as wide as you would like to get the length of the pasta, put them on top of each other and cut into thin strips. Disassemble the strips, lay them on the board, dust with flour and let dry.
Step 2
• Pour water into a saucepan, lightly salt, put on fire and bring to a boil. Dip 500g of pasta into boiling water and cook until tender. Discard the paste in a colander and rinse with cold water.
Step 3
• Take 200g of low-fat ham, cut into strips the size of a pasta. Heat a frying pan over a fire, pour 2 - 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, and fry the ham, add the boiled pasta to the pan and fry everything together. Finely grate the cheese, add to the ham pasta and simmer until the cheese is melted.
Step 4
• Prepare a small melon: cut in half, remove seeds, peel. Cut the melon into cubes (about 1 cm3) or use a teaspoon to make melon balls. Place in a skillet and heat slightly to soak the ingredients. Stir well and refrigerate.
You can also make a lighter version of the dish. To do this, add chopped ham, melon, finely chopped arugula, juice of one lemon and two tablespoons of olive oil to the boiled, washed pasta. Put everything in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Step 5
• Spoon the cooked pasta on a large plate, garnish with mint or arugula leaves.
