'Chef cooks at home' initiative - Homemade pasta with cabbage by Marin Rendić

Chef Marin Rendić from Bistro Apetit by Marin Rendić restaurant brings you a recipe for homemade pasta with cabbage, a traditional meal of Zagreb region. 

Ingredients for 4 servings:

1/2 bigger cabbage head

1 onion

600 g turkey meat

100 g butter

0.05l olive oil

100g breadcrumbs

100g bacon

4 stalks asparagus

4 radish heads

Pasta ingredients:

400 g flour

3 eggs

3 spoonful of ajvar

Method for pasta:

1.      Mix all the ingredients together and prepare the dough.

2.      Wrap into stretch foil and put into the fridge for 40-60 minutes.

3.      Roll out the dough until very thin, and cut into squares about 3 cm big.

4.      Cook the cut squares of dough in salted water for 3-4 minutes and don’t throw the water away!

Method:

1.      In a heated pan, sauté minced onions until gold.

2.      Add cabbage and bacon, both diced, and braise for 15-20 minutes.

3.      Gradually add a bit of water you used for cooking pasta.

4.      Add cooked pasta squares and cook for 2-3 more minutes, then season with salt and black pepper.

5.      Cook the asparagus in the remaining pasta water for one minute.

6.      Melt butter in a pan, and add olive oil.

7.      Cut turkey meat into pieces, salt, roll into bread crumbs and fry in the pan for 10 minutes.

8.      Serve the pasta with cabbage on a plate, and top it with turkey meat, asparagus and radish slices.

Check out the videorecipe here: https://www.facebook.com/chefkuhadoma/videos/509866739688194/

Bon appétit!