Yet another use for left over starter.
I have been wanting to try making lasagna in the thermal cooker, but so far I haven’t been brave enough. I also have a lot of sourdough starter that needs to be used, why not combine them and make sourdough pasta sheets for a vegetarian lasagna. Today is the day…
First to find a how-to or a recipe I can almost totally change; I found several at;
They all seemed to be just a combination of flour, egg and water, with a few added bits. So I decided to go it alone and make it up as I went along.
Sourdough pasta
Ingredients
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup rye bread flour
1 egg (I used a duck egg)
1 cup sourdough starter
water
Method
Plop everything in a bowl and mix together.
Form a dough that can be kneaded by hand.
Rest for an hour or so on a kitchen bench.
Roll out onto a floured board until you have a sheet that is about 3mm thick
Cut to desired shape and either dry on a rack or use fresh in cooking.
Now for the photo tutorial;
Gather all the ingredients together.
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Resting the dough while I make tomato and vegetable sauce (with fake chicken mince)
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Rolling the sheets out flat
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About this thick
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Beginning to make layers
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Cheese sauce layer
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Oops, I made too much tomato sauce
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Layers of yum. The pyrex container is for the oven and the stainless steel one is for the thermal cooker
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Ready to cook
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Boiled the kettle and poured in some water
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Put a bowl in the bottom of the cooker as a trivet
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The pan is sitting on the trivet and has boiling water to about half way up the side
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First lid on
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All sealed up and cooking
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This one gets popped into the oven for 45 minutes (until it went brown)
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Cooked lasagna in the thermal cooker
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From the oven (yes, I forgot it was in there)
Pasta is a great way to get rid of that extra sourdough starter, I wonder if I can make it without egg now the chooks have stopped laying for the winter?