Home Made Chocolate Pasta

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pinch salt

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder and salt together with a wire whisk. dump the flour mixture onto your work surface or in a large bowl. make a deep well in the center of the mound and break the eggs into it. mix the eggs with a fork, adding 1 tbsp oil and 1 tsp vanilla. stir with your fork until you form a soft dough. when you have formed a soft, dough ball, transfer it to a clean, floured working surface and knead for 5-10 minutes until the dough is soft, elastic and uniform in color. cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for an hour before rolling.
• 2 roll the dough through your pasta machine and use your spaghetti, linguini or fettuccine cutting attachment. cook your pasta in unsalted, boiling water for 2 – 3 minutes. drain thoroughly but do not rinse.
• 3 mound your warm pasta onto dessert plates and serve immediately with sauce, or chill to serve cold.
• 4 optional idea: you could substitute vanilla for mint essence, or even add a little fresh mint to turn this into choc mint pasta and most likely other essences would allow you to make any combination you liked.