Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah BATMAN!!! PASTA!!!
This week I’m making two-toned Batman-inspired pasta. These little sheets of fazzoletti pasta as pretty easy to make, they just take a bit of time and care. This is perfect if you’re a fan of the comics, movies, or TV shows, or could even be great as a spooky and delicious Halloween treat! Let me show you how it’s done!
To make the Pasta:
- Flour – I used 00 flour, but all-purpose will work fine too!
- Eggs (basic ratio I used was 2 eggs/2 c. flour and more flour as needed)
- 1 yellow pepper
- Turmeric (can leave out too, but helps get a little more yellow color and adds a very subtle flavor)
- Activated Charcoal
Let me show you how it’s done!
- Make the 2 doughs. Cut the yellow pepper into small pieces, removing the seeds. In a blender combine pepper pieces, 1-2 tsp. turmeric, and eggs and blend until smooth. Mix into flour and stir to combine. Add more flour if necessary until it comes together as a dough. It shouldn’t stick to your hands. If it does add more flour. Keep kneading for 5-10 minutes until smooth. For the black dough add 1-2 tsp of activated charcoal to the eggs and mix the same way as the yellow dough.
- Roll out dough. Set your pasta machine to 0 and roll out the dough. Then fold dough over on itself and roll again. This is called Laminating the dough and it’s an important step for giving the dough some strength. Do this 5 times or so. Then turn the dial to setting “1” and roll again. Then roll out at “2” and keep doing this until a level of “6”. If the pasta gets too big to handle cut in half with a sharp knife.
- Cut Batman Shapes. Use your cookie cutter dipped in a bit of flour to cut out Batman shapes from the yellow dough. I fit 2 shapes on top of each other. Save the little Batman cutouts for later.
- Combine two doughs. Brush a bit of water all over the now cut-out yellow dough with a clean paintbrush. Lift the BLACK DOUGH (not the yellow as all of the cut-outs has made it very weak) and place it over the yellow sheet of dough. Lightly roll together with a rolling pin to get an initial seal. Then set the pasta machine at a 0 or 1 and roll together to make the two colors stick to one another.
- Roll out two-toned dough. Cut each Batman into a single square sheet and continue rolling out until a level of 6, each time turning the dough to roll either “wing” side or “head” side first to keep the image as even as possible.
- Trim up edges. Use a sharp knife, pizza cutter, or fluted pasta roller to clean up the edges of the fazzoletti until they’re the size you desire. You could also make these into large ravioli or even sheets of lasagna.
- Dry, Freeze, or Cook. You can now let the pasta dry and use it later, freeze it in a large freezer-safe plastic bag, or boil a big pot of salted done. Fresh pasta doesn’t take as long as dried pasta to keep an eye on it. Mine took 5-7 minutes.
- Enjoy. Make a simple sauce of brown butter and sage or whatever you like and enjoy!
- Use the scraps! You can re-roll any scraps of dough together to get a marbled effect and then cut out more Batman shapes, which you can use in place of farfalle, orichette, or other small pasta.
And there it is – Batman Pasta!
