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Puttanesca Sauce and Gluten Free Pasta
A Puttanesca sauce is about as interesting and controversial as Mary Magdalene. Learning how to make pasta can involve Durham wheat or gluten free choices.
Gluten free pasta can be made at home or you can find a wide variety at your local health food or grocery stores.
Durham wheat or more accurately Durum wheat is typically used to make fresh pasta, but it is not a good choice for the gluten intolerant.
Learning how to make pasta can be as simple as making a raw pasta with squash or creating a gluten free recipe.
Just be sure not to over heat your olive oil - it is a very sensitive oil and will break down under too much heat!
How to Make Pasta
Durum Wheat aka Durham Wheat
Durham wheat is more commonly known as Durum and is one of the hardest of all the wheat varieties. It is a different species than "whole wheat" and is derived from Emmer wheat.
Semolina is made from the endosperm of durum which gives both flours a distinctive yellow color. Basically, durum wheat flour is a whole grain and semolina flour is made from the kernel of durum wheat.
Durum has a high protein content as well as a high gluten content. This combination is what gives this particular wheat the right properties for making great pasta, but not the right properties for the
gluten intolerant.
Gluten Free Pasta
More and more food establishments are providing gluten free options, so be sure to ask when dining out.
To make this type of pasta at home, you will need a good gluten free recipe for making pasta and a pasta machine. I've noticed that brown rice flour and tapioca flour are popular choices.
If you're not feeling that ambitious, you will find a wide array of gluten free types of pasta at most stores these days.
These are just some of your choices:
Quinoa Pasta
Brown Rice Pasta
Buckwheat Pasta
Potato Pasta
Legume Pasta
Raw Gluten Free Pasta
You can make raw pasta from a lot of fruits and vegetables. Zucchini and cucumber are a very popular choice, but so are daikon, turnips, and other hard vegetables.
You can even make a somewhat Rawish Puttanesca Recipe to go with your raw pasta.
Just blend up some fresh and sun dried (soaked) tomatoes as the base. Then add in capers, chili peppers, parsley, olives, olive oil, and anchovies if you so desire.
This is one of those recipes were you can be a bit creative and experiment with interesting ingredients.
