From Scratch Pasta Recipe
This simple and easy from scratch Pasta Recipe is a classic, delicious and made with only 3 ingredients.
Equipment
- Pasta Machine
- Rolling Pin
- Knife
Ingredients
- 2 Cups` Flour
- 2 to 3 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 2-4 Tbsp water
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- To a bowl, add 2 cups of flour. Make a well in the center.
- To the well, add 2 eggs, 1-2 tablespoons of oil, 1 tsp of salt and 2 tablespoons of water.
- Begin mixing by breaking the yolks of your eggs and gently stirring the wet ingredients together while slowly bringing more and more flour into the wet ingredients.
- Once all of the ingredients are well mixed, kneed your dough for 5-10 minutes. This is where a stand mixer comes in handy.
- Rest your dough in your bowl, covered with a wet cloth to prevent the dough from drying out.
- Once your dough has rested, divide it into 4 equal parts.
- Working with a quarter of the dough at a time, gently press it by hand into a rounded rectangle about 1/2 an inch thick. This will allow it to move through the thickest setting easily.
- Run the dough through on the thickest setting.
- Fold the dough into 3rds and rotate a quarter turn. Repeat 2 to 3 more times. This will knead your dough and shape the sheets so you get a more uniform length.
- Next adjust your machine down two steps. On my machine I go from setting 7 to setting 5. Run the dough through on this setting 2 times, without folding.
- Adjust down 2 more settings to 3 and run your dough through 1-2 times. Your dough will get long and difficult to manage. At this point cut it into half or even thirds.
- The lowest setting is one. Depending on your preference, you can either stop at 2 or adjust all the way down to the one. I chose one this time, but if I were making Ravioli, or Lasagna, I would stick with two, to give the dough a bit more strength.
- Once you roll the dough on your thinnest preferred setting, you can now process it for your purpose. If you want to make ravioli, its ready for that. Im making fettuccine sized noodles for Beef Stroganoff so I ran the pasta sheets through the fettuccine cutter.