Sourdough Discard Noodles: A Delicious Waste Not, Want Not Recipe

I love pasta and my sourdough starter is always creating discard

So here is a sourdough discard recipe!

You can cook the noodles right away or freeze for an easy meal later

Why does this work?

Sourdough discard is just flour and water

Time and yeast make it better for you, but it is just those ingredients at the core

Since pasta noodles have those ingredients, you can use sourdough discard instead of some of the flour and water that is traditionally used

What is the oil for?

Oil is a big ingredient for texture in pasta

It makes the noodles less chewy and more pasta-like after the noodles are cooked

It also helps with the texture while rolling and cutting the noodles as well

What is the semolina flour for?

Semolina flour doesn’t absorb into the dough like all-purpose flour does

So when you coat the cut noodles in it, they do not stick together before you boil them anymore

Semolina flour also gets heavy when boiled so it falls to the bottom of the pan when you cook it instead of getting clumpy on your pasta

Ingredients:

3-4 cups all-purpose flour plus more for rolling

3 eggs

½ cup sourdough discard

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 cup of semolina flour to coat the finished noodles with

Instructions:

Mix 2 cups of flour, the eggs, salt, oil, and sourdough discard together

It will be very sticky

Add a half cup of flour until the dough is no longer sticky

Let rest, covered, for at least 30 minutes

The longer you let it sit, the more sourdough taste you will have

You can even put it in the fridge for a day or two for a strong sour flavor

Prepare your pasta roller and put semolina flour in a bowl

Break off a small piece of dough and roll it until you can kind of see through it

That is a number 3 or 4 on my pasta roller

Cut the noodles and drop them directly into the bowl of semolina flour

Coat well and set aside

Repeat until all the dough is gone

You can either freeze or cook them now

To freeze, separate small sections before freezing for easy use later

To cook now, boil a pot of water and add a good amount of salt to it

Bowl a handful of noodles for about a minute or until they are all floating

Use noodles in any pasta recipe!