Basic fresh homemade egg pasta
Fresh pasta is very easy to make and it tastes a lot better than the dried pasta you can buy in stores. Making pasta only requires a few basic ingredients and it doesn’t take very long to make fresh pasta. You can use any type of flour to make pasta, but the best pasta is made with type 0 flour, which is a very finely sieved flour.
Ingredients
100 gram flour
1 large egg
The above amounts of the ingredients will make about one serving of pasta. If you are making pasta for 4 people, use 400 grams flour and 4 large eggs.
Put the flour in a large bowl, make a little hole in the middle and crack the eggs into it. Beat the eggs with a fork and mix in the flower a little bit at a time. When everything is kind of sticking together, empty the bowl onto a wooden board and continue kneading the dough with your hands. Put the dough into a plastic bag and let it rest for about 30 minutes at room temperature.
Sprinkle your work surface with a little flour and roll out the dough. When it has the desired thickness you can cut the pasta into little strips and cook them.
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Comments
I’ve had a pasta machine for quite some while, but never got around using it. Making pasta was really much easier then I expected and I will probably make a lot more of it in the future.
Your pasta looks great. No mention of drying your pasta a little before cooking? I always thought it made the texture more smooth when cooked. Is that true?
Not that I know of, but it might be worth a try to compare the taste and texture of fresh and dried pasta made with the same recipe
Absolutely beautiful! I am very impressed. Making homemade pasta has been on my to do list for a long time.