Passatelli with broth – Italian fresh pasta with lemon
Passatelli with broth is a traditional dish from Italy. This kind of “pasta” like noodles is created by combining eggs, nutmeg, bread, grated cheese and lemon zest. You can cut them by hand or create by passing through potato masher. They’re a perfect match for meat or vegetable broth. A recipe with a surprising taste, easy of making and with genuine ingredients.
Traditional Italian recipe: Passatelli with broth – freshly made pasta with parmesan cheese and lemon zest.
Ingredients
- 80 g fresh breadcrumbs
- 100 g grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 0.5 tbsp flour
- 0.5 lemon (only the zest)
- pinch of nutmeg
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 l (or less) vegetable broth
- Instructions below. If you have any questions about this recipe contact me in the comments below or on my social channels. If you have tried this recipe and would like to evaluate it, press the stars above or let me know me why you didn’t like it in the comments.
Notes
The internal structure of passatelli changes depending on the quality of bread that you used. Passatelli can be very firm or slightly jagged and brittle.
Instructions: Passatelli with broth – Italian fresh pasta with lemon
Mix breadcrumbs, cheese, lemon zest, whole eggs, flour and a pinch of nutmeg in a bowl.
Add salt and pepper and knead well with your hands until you have a smooth mixture. It should be firm but not too hard. If necessary, adjust with few tablespoons of broth or breadcrumbs.
Bring broth to a gentle boil. Divide the dough into smaller pieces. Using the potato masher with large holes drop passatelli directly in broth. In case you do not have a potato masher you can make long strips of dough by hand and cut them vertically creating small pieces of passatelli.
Continue until you have used all of the dough. When passatelli comes to the surface turn off the heat. Let it rest for a few minutes and serve with the hot broth.
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p.s. If you are looking for another very traditional Italian recipe check my Tagliolini with milk.
