In a large bowl add the cooked, mashed sweet potato. Crack open the eggs into the potato bowl and add the salt.
Combine the flour and beet powder well together. Pour the flour mix directly onto a clean kitchen surface. Create a well in the centre of the flour.
Add the sweet potato, egg and salt mix into the well. Now, using your hands get everything into a dough mixture by gradually pulling the flour inwards to the sweet potato and eggs working the ingredients into a soft pliable dough. If you find the dough too sticky flour your hands. If the dough is too dry, add some of the reserved sweet potato water a tablespoon at a time while kneading. This should take about 10 minutes.
Once done cut the dough into 4 equal parts, sprinkle with flour and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes. Time to clean up while the dough rests :)
30 minutes later time to start rolling!Dust the rolling pin with flour and start by rolling the first part out into a very thin strip (very thin) this is going to take some time and muscle but you want the dough paper thin or if they too thick they don't cook properly. As you finish one part into a thin sheet, rest it aside and keep going until you roll out all the 4 parts of dough. Sprinkle flour in-between the sheets to prevent them from sticking. (you can also do one sheet, cut into thin strips and repeat but I prefer to roll all the sheets out then begin with the cutting into strips)
Use a sharp knife and start cutting each thinly rolled out sheet straight down into thin strips. As you cut them set aside and sprinkle flour over them to prevent sticking.
When you have cut all the equal parts cook the pasta in some boiling salted water till done to your liking making sure to reserve the pasta water! Fresh pasta doesn't take as long to cook as store bought so keep an eye on it and taste it. Fresh pasta should cook for anything between 3 to 4 minutes whereas store bough takes anything between 8 and 11 min depending on the pasta.
Once ready, drain reserving the pasta water. Toss the pasta back into the pot on extremely low heat, (almost off) add in a dash of the reserved water and some beet hummus. Mix and enjoy!To this you can add chicken, shrimp, veggies and serve as a regular pasta meal!
