Homemade Skinny Fettuccini Alfredo

ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEALS

2-4 servings

Ingredients for Pasta

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• a pinch of salt

Ingredients for Sauce

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 4 garlic cloves
• 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 cup low fat milk
• 3/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1/2 tablespoon parsley, chopped
• Optional: chicken breast, chopped

Directions

Prepare the dough. In a mixing bowl, add flour. Make a well in the center of the flour and add the eggs, salt and olive oil. Start mixing ingredients together with your hands, about one minute. Once you have a work-able “ball” that holds together, transfer the dough to a working surface. Knead the dough until it holds together nicely, about 10 minutes. Form dough into a ball and wrap in saran wrap. Let the dough sit for at least 30 minutes.

To make pasta sheets with the Kitchen Aid pasta attachment:

1. Attach your pasta roller attachment to the power hub of your KitchenAid stand mixer. 
2. On a lightly floured surface, cut your ball of pasta dough into 3 equal-sized pieces. Flatten each piece with your hands. 
3. Lightly flour your hands. On speed 2 and setting 1 on the pasta roller, feed one piece of flattened dough through the roller. Once it has gone through, fold the dough into 3, rotate and feed through again. Rotating the dough is what makes it rectangular in shape. Repeat this process two more times until you’ve fed all sides of the dough through at setting 1. 
4. Now change your roller setting to 2 and feed the dough through the roller once. Keep flouring your hands if dough is sticky.  
5. Keep feeding the dough through on each roller setting (only once) until you’ve reaching setting 7. I found this was a good thickness for fettucine. Set your dough sheet aside and repeat these steps for the remaining pieces of dough. 
6. You now have basic, work-able pasta dough sheets! You can make spaghetti, fettucine, ravioli. tortellini, whatever you want from this dough. 

To make fettuccine or spaghetti:

1. Grab a sheet of pasta dough and cut it into about 3 equal pieces. If you feed the whole sheet through without cutting, your fettuccine will probably be too long to eat. 
2. Add the fettucine or spaghetti attachment to the power hub of your KitchenAid stand mixer. On speed 2, feed the pasta dough sheet through. 
3. On a floured baking sheet, place each set of fettuccine/spaghetti on the baking sheet into a pile or “nest” shape.

If you don’t have the Kitchen Aid attachment, use a rolling pin to roll out dough. Use a knife or pizza cutter to make strips of pasta.

Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add garlic and sauté one minute, stirring occasionally, until fragrant. Sprinkle with flour and stir to combine. Sauté for an additional minute to cook the flour, stirring occasionally.

Slowly add chicken broth, whisking to combine until smooth. Whisk in milk, and bring the mixture to a simmer. Let cook for an additional minute until thickened, then stir in Parmesan cheese, tomato, salt and pepper until cheese melted. Reduce heat to medium-low until pasta is cooked.

Cook pasta al dente.

Drain pasta, then immediately add pasta to the pan with Alfredo sauce. Toss to combine. Serve topped with chopped fresh parsley.

Recipes originally found on Gimme Some Oven and Pina Bresciani.

This is one of my all-time favorite meals that I have made. This dish was so packed with flavor, that I almost felt guilty for eating a full bowl of it. I had to remind myself that it is a much healthier version of Fettuccini Alfredo. Feel free to add chicken to the dish for some protein. When I went to Italy in 2019, I was introduced to truly fresh homemade pasta, and I absolutely fell in love. Since returning to the states, I’ve learned how to make my own homemade pasta. It has become a game changer with my homemade meals. I have different Kitchen Aid attachments that help me cut the pasta into fettuccini, spaghetti, pasta sheets, bucatini, fusilli, rigatoni, small macaroni and large macaroni.

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