Fettuccine pasta with asparagus and snow peas

Makes 30.

Two groups of 4-6 people will work on this dish. One group will make, roll and cook the pasta ,the other group will make the topping and help serve the pasta.

Equipment

• 4 Chopping boards
• Knives
• Tea towels
• Bowls, including one very large
• Scales
• Grater
• Strainer
• Wooden spoon
• Measuring spoons
• Large spoons
• 4x Deep dishes
• Very large saucepan
• Pasta lifter or large egg slice
• Frying pan
• 4x Serving spoons

Ingredients

• Semolina flour for dusting
• Salt
• 2x Basic Pasta Dough (400g)
• 60 g butter

Topping

• 6 cloves garlic
• 2 onions or leeks
• 2 tab extra virgin olive
• ½ tspn nutmeg
• 200g parmesan
• 10 stalks of parsley
• salt and pepper
• 3x bunches of asparagus.
• 150g of snow peas topped and tailed.
• 40g butter

What to do

First group (4-6 people)

• Use pasta dough that has been made for you. Roll out to the largest setting on the pasta machine.
• Slowly pass the pasta through the pasta machine and increase the settings yo make the pasta thinner. Once you reach no. 6 of the paste machine. Change the setting to the fettuccini setting.
• Pass the thin sheets of pasta through this setting until all the pasta has been made into fettuccini.
• Dust the trays with semolina and place the fettuccini onto a floured tray.
• Place the fettuccini into a large pot of boiling water Cook fettuccini for 2 minutes
• Lift pasta out with a slotted spoon and place into a large bowl. Once all the pasta is cooked mix the snow pea and asparagus sauce with the pasta, fold through some parmesan cheese and butter place into a serving tray and serve.

Second group (4-6 people) Now to make the filling

• Chop onions finely
• Chop garlic finely
• Grate Parmesan, reserve
• Wash and slice the asparagus. Top and til the snow peas.
• Finley chop the parsley.
• Saut’e onions until soft.
• Add garlic for half a minute, stir till smelling good, and then add all of the asparagus and snow peas.
• Stir and cover pan for 3 minutes
• Uncover, raise heat, to finish the cooking process
• Tip the mix in to the freshly cooked pasta and fold through some butter and parmesan cheese.