Red Chilli Pasta

Kneading cayenne pepper into flour and egg noodle dough makes an interesting pasta: tender noodles, but with a bite. Hot chilli pastas of both red and green chilli (using dried green chilli powder) have become quite chic in recent years throughout urban California, and the southwestern United States. The shop near my recent home offered a variety of these spicy noodles - not only cut into fettuccine, tagliarini, and lasagne shapes, but also stuffed, ravioli-style, with all sorts of fillings