Chocolate Pasta With Strawberry "Marinara" Sauce

Craving chocolate? Craving strawberry sauce? Craving pasta? If yes, then this is the perfect recipe for you! An innovative and at home plate you can recreate is chocolate pasta topped with warm strawberry sauce. This dessert will look delicious as well as having a distinct and fantastic flavor.

Ingredients List:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more if needed
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• Pinch salt
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Tools List:

• Large bowl
• Spatula
• Plastic wrap
• Pasta sheeter
• Chef's knife
• Large pot
• Pasta Tree (optional) to dry Pasta

• For the pasta: Sift together the flour, cocoa and sugar. Add a pinch salt and mound the flour mixture in a large bowl. Hollow out the center, making a well in the middle of the flour with steep sides. Break the eggs into the well. Add the chocolate syrup and vanilla. Gently mix together with a fork. Gradually start incorporating the flour by pulling in the flour from the sides of the well. As you incorporate more of the flour, the dough will start to take shape. Once it gets thick, you can use a spatula to incorporate the rest of the flour.
• If the dough is too dry, add a little water. If the dough is too wet or sticky, add a little flour. Once the dough comes together, knead the dough on a clean work surface until it becomes smooth, about 8 minutes. Shape into a disc, cover with plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Divide your rested dough into quarters and work with one piece at a time, covering your other pieces to keep them moist. Flour each piece lightly, shape it into a rectangular shape and put it through a pasta sheeter attachment, starting at the widest setting. Run the dough once through the largest setting, fold it into thirds and run it through one more time. Then run the pasta through the sheeting attachment once on every number, stopping at 5 or 6, depending on how thick you would like it. Lightly flour the rolled out pasta sheet and fold in half. Take your chef knife and cut ribbons about a 1/2-inch thick, then unravel the pasta ribbons and place on a pasta rack to keep from sticking.
• Cook the chocolate pasta in a large pot of boiling water, 3 minutes. Immediately remove the pasta from the water

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 lb Strawberries
• 1 tbs Lemon juice

Tools:

• Medium Sauce pan
• Spatula

Instructions:

1. Wash and cut up the strawberries (cut up as small or large as you want them)
2. In the medium sauce pan, on medium-high heat add the sugar, strawberries, and the lemon juice and stir to combine
3. Leave on heat and stir often until it simmers
4. Let the mixture simmer for 10-15 minutues or until the sauce is a thick, glossy, red.