Pasta roller and cutter (if not using a rolling pin and knife)
Air tight container for resting
Frypan
Ingredients
Pasta Dough
250g00 flour
70gdurum semolina flour
3eggs
3egg yolks
1tspolive oilextra virgin (we use Rio Vista Olives' Nothin' But Robust)
1/2tspsalt
Pasta Filling
500gfresh spinachwashed
1tbspextra virgin olive oil
1onionchopped
6large slices prosciuttofinely chopped
300gfresh ricotta
100gRomano cheesegrated
1egg yolk
1/4tspnutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
Sugo
2tbspextra virgin olive oilextra virgin (we use Rio Vista Olives' Nothin' But Robust)
1onionvery finely diced
small handful basil leaves
1bottle passataapproximately 700ml
1/2tspsugar
salt to taste
Béchamel
250mlmilk
30gparmesan
25gbutter
20gplain flour
saltto taste
Instructions
Pasta
Mix the flours and salt together and form them into a well. Then add the eggs, 3 egg yolks, and 1/2 tsp olive oil into the centre and use a fork or your hand to bring it together into a ball.
Knead vigorously for 10 minutes, before transferring to an airtight container, and resting for 30 minutes away from heat or direct sunlight.
Filling
Wilt the spinach in a medium heat frypan with only the water left from washing it; remove and finely chop.
Sauté the onion in 1 tbsp of olive oil on medium heat until pale, around 8 minutes, then add the prosciutto and cook on high for a further 3 minutes. Transfer to a mixing bowl to cool, before stirring in the spinach, ricotta, Romano, egg yolk, and nutmeg; season to taste.
Rotolo - Poaching
Bring a large stock pot of lightly salted water (2/3 full) to the boil and preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Cut the dough in half, and roll it out into long sheets of about 15mm width and 1.5mm thickness. If using a pasta machine, turn each piece through the thickest setting a few times, folding over itself in between passes, before stepping through to a setting of 6.
Spread the filling evenly over the pasta sheets, and then roll up by the short edges. Wrap each tightly in a tea towel or muslin cloth, tying with kitchen twine, and then poach for 20 minutes in the salted water. Remove and allow to cool.
Sugo
Add 2 tbsp of olive oil and the onion into a cold frypan, on low-medium heat. Stir regularly, until the onion begins to sweat and turn translucent, approximately 10 minutes.
Bruise the basil lightly, and add to the pan. Cook for a further minute, before adding the passata, sugar, and a pinch of salt. Simmer gently for 15 minutes, until thickened, and then remove from the heat.
Béchamel
Melt the butter on medium-high heat until it begins to foam, then stir in the flour and cook for 2 minutes. Gradually pour in the milk, whisking vigorously, and cook for a further 5 minutes, until thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in 30g of parmesan. Salt to taste, and then stir into the sugo.
Rotolo - Baking
Chop the cooled rotolo into slices of approximately 2cm thickness. Spoon a layer of sauce into the bottom of a baking dish, and then stand the rotolo slices up on an angle, dolloping the remaining sauce in between and on top. Bake for 20 minutes, until the sauce begins to crack and the pasta edges start to brown.