What to do with too much pasta dough!
OK, so I accidentally made too much pasta dough. I was making a huge lasagna and I seriously overestimated. I've got a ball of dough the size of a pomelo now. Yes, I could make more lasagna, and yes, I could make fettucini with my pasta roller, but is there anything else I can do?
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8 Comments:
I would make more sheets and lay them out and freeze them. From sheets you can make any long pasta you like. They also freeze nice and flat in sheets. Sounds great.
JerzeeTomato at 10:47AM on 01/14/09
DROP-DUMPLINGS FOR SOUP
Just drop tea-or tablespoon size pieces into you already boiling soup. They'll be done in just a couple of minutes.
brigittesm at 11:09AM on 01/14/09
I would make some kind of stuffed pasta and freeze it for later. Any kind of filling could be good: meat, ricotta, potatoes (sweet or regular), potatoes & spinach...
brooke29 at 3:34PM on 01/14/09
Fry it up, baby! Fry it up and sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar.
(Sorry, that's basically my answer to anything leftover that isn't soup.)
BangieB at 3:50PM on 01/14/09
Great suggestions all! I wonder if you could slightly flatten your ball of dough and cut it into "batons," wrap and freeze those? When it's time to thaw, you can still run it through a pasta machine if you like or form it into another shape of pasta.
. o O (Gotta admit, Bangie's suggestion sounds yummy right about now...)
therealchiffonade at 4:15PM on 01/14/09
Just form a thick rounded disk, flatten it slightly, then wrape it in saran wrap and put it in a ziplock to freeze it. Then nextime you want to make fresh pasta leave it at room temp. until it defrosts and use it as desired. Ive done this many times and even used the left overs for my catering....people LOVE IT!
cooked7 at 4:40PM on 01/14/09
Stuffed pasta...mmm...especially since something labor-intensive like that is good to do in large batches, not so often...
akk328 at 4:52PM on 01/14/09
@BangieB Deep fry or pan fry?
tienh5 at 9:24PM on 03/25/09