Homemade pasta made with just four ingredients: semolina flour, water, olive oil, and salt. These homemade gnocchetti sardi are simple to make and perfect for your favorite pasta dish.
Ingredients
1 cup semolina flour
¼ teaspoon ground turmeric (optional)
½ cup warm water
1 teaspoon olive oil
Pinch of salt
Directions:
In a medium sized mixing bowl, add semolina flour. If you want to add a little bit of color to the dough, you can add ground turmeric to give it a more yellow color. Just mix the ground turmeric into the flour. Otherwise, you can leave it out. Make a hole in the center of the flour and pour warm water into it. Mix the semolina flour and water until combined. Add olive oil and a pinch of salt. Mix until the dough is well combined.
Roll the dough out on a lightly floured counter. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes. If the dough sticks to your hand, then add about a tablespoon more of the semolina flour. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and doesn’t tear as easily. Place the dough back in the mixing bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or a towel and let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
Once the dough is ready, break a marble size piece, about one centimeter in diameter, from the dough. And use your thumb to roll the dough on the gnocchi board or on the tines of the back of a fork to create ridges. The dough will curl onto itself and create a hollow center.
Repeat with the rest of the dough, but keep the unused portion covered so that it doesn’t dry out.
Place the gnocchetti sardi on a lightly floured baking sheet as you make the roll the rest of them.
Serve the gnocchetti sardi with your favorite pasta sauce or place them into a freezer safe container and freeze them until you’re ready to eat.
Recipe by Cooking with a Wallflower at https://cookingwithawallflower.com/2020/05/24/homemade-gnocchetti-sardi/