Caramelised Onion and Blue Cheese Pasta
Servings 2
An actual 25 minute meal, that's packing plenty of flavour, perfect for Valentine's Day.
Ingredients
Pasta Dough
- 180 g all purpose flour
- 20 g semolina
- 2 eggs *one egg per person
- pinch of salt
Caramelised onion and blue cheese sauce
- 50 g butter
- 3 large brown onions sliced
- balsamic vinegar
- 4 cloves of garlic minced
- 5 leaves of English spinach
- 75 ml prosecco
- 75 g of gorgonzola or good blue cheese
- 200 ml cream
Method
For the fresh pasta
- Weigh 100 g of flour per person (90 g all purpose, 10 g semolina) in this case 200 g total was used
- Make a well out of flour on bench top and crack eggs inside
- Gently mix egg mixture and slowly incorporate flour
- Once incorporated knead for 15 minutes
- Cover in cling and place in fridge for 1 hour
- Set up pasta machine and when ready remove dough from fridge and divide in half
- Using a rolling pin flatten out the dough
- With machine on widest setting roll through
- Fold dough over and repeat
- Work dough through machine lowering the setting with each pass
- Cut dough into desired widths
- These were about 2.5 cm wide
For the Sauce
- Cut onions lengthwise trying to get them as even as possible
- Brown onions in a well oiled pan over medium heat
- Generously salt onions
- Once significantly reduced add balsamic and sugar to taste
- Set aside
- Deglaze same pan with prosecco
- Add garlic and a generous amount of the butter
- Once butter melted add cream and gorgonzola
- Cook pasta in heavily salted water (will only take about 60 seconds to cook)
- Once cooked add pasta directly to pan (do not drain)
- Add onions back to pan with roughly chopped spinach
- Leave on low heat until the pasta soaks up all the sauce
- Plate up and enjoy