Fresh Pasta with Lentil Sauce

Here is what we are having for dinner tonight. I am making fresh pasta with a lentil tomato sauce.

For the pasta i use:

3 1/2 cups of flour (you can play with varieties)
4 eggs
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt

I put it all in the bowl of my kitchenaid and mix it up! Remove after a few minutes and knead the dough....add a touch of water if necessary, but this dough should be really firm. We have the pasta maker attachment for the kitchenaid, which i run small pieces of this dough through. And then cut the pasta......we usually do a fettucini style cut. I'm new to the pasta making, but i know others on this blog have more experience with it......so if anyone has questions perhaps someone here would know the answer.


For the sauce........A friend of mine made this for us after we had our youngest daughter. It was delicious! She said she got the recipe off of the Merrick's website, in their recipe section.

Here it is.

3 cups chopped carrots
2 large onions, diced
6 cloves garlic, minced
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound dry brown lentils
4 cans diced tomatoes
cayenne flakes, to taste
4 cups tomato sauce
2 tsp dried thyme (or just alot of fresh basil at the end)
salt and pepper to taste

Saute onions, garlic and carrots in oil until soft. Add 5 cups water and lentils and simmer for 30 minutes. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce, thyme, salt, pepper and cayenne.......simmer uncovered until desired thickness. Serve with fresh grated parmesan.

We often saute other veggies to go in this sauce.....depending on what we have. And i also really love it with fresh parsley!