Homemade Fettuccine with Pesto or Vegan Alfredo

Making homemade pasta is super easy. A few ingredients and the dough is ready. It's also easy to store the dough for a few days in the fridge or freezer.

You can make the fettuccine with any type of pasta maker but I have the KitchenAid attachment (makes my life so much easier).

We had this with some homemade pesto but you can also make a vegan Alfredo sauce that is amazing. I am putting both sauce recipes on here!

You'll need:

• 3 cups of flour (+ 1 cup for dusting, adjusting dough)
• 4 eggs
• 2 tbsp water
• 1/2 tsp salt

How to make pasta

- Put all ingredients (3 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 2 tbsp water and salt) in a bowl and mix on speed 2 with the "paddle" attachment on the KitchenAid mixer. If not, mix on speed 2 with any mixer/blender.

- Add more water in 1 tbsp increments if the dough is too dry. Alternatively, if too liquid add more flour.

- Mix for 1 or 2 minutes.

- Change the attachment to the "dough hook" and knead dough in the bowl for 2 more minutes. If you don't have a stand mixer then knead the dough by hand for 4 minutes.

- Let the dough rest for 20 minutes in the fridge.

- Cut the dough in 3 pieces and flatten out each piece to be used in a rectangle shape. Use flour to prevent the dough from sticking (and add flour as necessary). 

- Go piece by piece and put the dough through the pasta attachment (the sheet roller) and roll the pasta dough through the roller on the #1 setting. Fold pasta in half and run again through #1 setting (do this twice).

run pasta through sheet roller

- Set roller on #2 and run pasta through there (repeat same step as before but on #2). Do this with #3 and #4. 

- If you want thin fettuccine do it on #5 too. If you want a thicker one just leave it on #4.

- Adjust and add flour to each side of the dough.

- Once the pasta is rolled place the sheet somewhere flat and change the attachment to the fettuccine pasta cutter. 

- Run the sheet through there and cut in half if noodles are too long.

fresh fettuccine

- Once you do all of the pasta dough - boil for 3 minutes or until al dente. 

Making Pesto

 You'll need

• 1/3 cup whole walnuts (raw unsalted)
• 1/3 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 cup fresh basil
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2-3 tablespoons lemon juice

- Just blend or put ingredients in a food processor until sauce is ready.

**oil free pesto: instead of oil use almond/soy milk (1/3 cup) or water and add more nuts and basil.

Vegan Alfredo Sauce

You'll need:

• 3/4 cup + 3 tbsp almond milk.
• 1 garlic clove
• 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• pinch nutmeg
• 1/3 cup cashews

- Mix ingredients in a blender until ready and creamy. Adjust consistency by adding more cashews or more almond milk.

pasta?

- Heat sauce up in a saucepan for a few minutes and serve with hot pasta.

Pam & Oscar