Delicious homemade pasta with fried pork and fresh lemon basil
By: Helen's Cooking
Published: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 11:57pm

Ingredients




Pasta:
1 egg;
1/2 cup of water;
1 1/2 cups of flour;
2 table spoons of salt;
1 teaspoon of pepper;
2 tablespoons of melted butter;
2 teaspoons of butter (not melted);
Pork
1/2 pound of pork;
1 medium white onion;
1 teaspoon of salt;
1 teaspoon of pepper;
1 tablespoon of corn/vegetable oil;
1/4 cup of lemon basil leaves.

Preparation

1 Melt the butter, let it cool off. Whisk an egg into 1/2 cup of water, add a pinch of salt and  pour in  the cooled melted butter. 2 Gradually add the flour until the dough will be of firm and elastic consistency (not very heavy, but not too moist, not too soft and sticky). 3 Knead the dough for 10-15 min. Split your dough in to two parts. Cover the surface where you will roll out the layer with quite a bit of flour and using a dough roller roll out a thin layer of dough, cover with flour the surface of your layer, so that it wouldn’t stick, when you will start folding it. 4 Fold your thin sheet of dough 3-4 times into a roll (remember you should have enough flour inside the roll, so that your pasta wouldn’t stick) 5 Now start cutting you roll into thin strips (see the pic). 6 As soon as you cut all your roll – add some air to your pasta, work through it with your hands, carefully give   it some air/ 7 Put the saucepan on high heat and wait until the water will start boiling. Add a teaspoon of salt and as soon as you see the water is boiling again add your pasta. 8 In 1-2 min carefully stir the pasta, but don’t break it. 9 In 2-4 min your pasta is ready, drain the water and add 2 tbsp. of not melted butter and carefully stir the pasta. 10 Meanwhile while your pasta is cooling off and the butter is melting: 11 Wash you pork, cut it into medium size square pieces. 12 Peel the onion, cut it into thin rings. Add some salt-pepper to your pork. Let it stay for 3-5 minutes (while you are finishing with your pasta -> draining adding a butter to melt) 13 Now take the frying pan and put it into high heat and start frying your pork. *** Tip: Fry your pork 3-4 minutes on each side without stirring, so that the crust would appear.*** 14 As soon as on one side of your pork you can see the golden-brown crust on one side of your pork, stir it and add the onion rings. Fry your pork again for 3-4 min. then stir. Fry until all the sides of your pork are golden brown and well cooked, you onion rings should be golden brown and almost transparent. 15 Now the most exciting part: mixing the flavors! 16 Put some of your home-made pasta then add your fried pork on top ad cover it with fresh lemon basil leaves. The aroma should be awesome! Enjoy! 17 BTW: you don’t have the fresh lemon basil the dish will still be delicious!  You can play with the over greens and flavors.

About


“Real men’s food: Homemade pasta with fried pork and fresh lemon basil. Inspiring flavor! Normally you don’t add water or melted butter in pasta, but I decided to combine 3 recipes in one and the result was astonishing, even after 5 days since this pasta was cooked and eaten my family members ask if there’s any left (and search for it in the fridge:). try it, You’ll love it. and visit my blog for more pictures on how-to prepare this dish http://helenscooking.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/grannys-homemade-pasta-with-fried-pork-and-fresh-lemon-basil/