Friday, December 23, 2011

Pasta Dough

I figured the first post should be how to make pasta dough, as easy as it is. It just happens to be the basis for just about everything I've made in the past couple of months since I got my pasta machine :) Thank you CucinaPro.

Ingredients:
1 egg
1 cup of flour

Recipe:
1.
Pile the flour and make a well for the egg. Using a fork, mix it while gradually incorporating more flour until well mixed.


2. Wrap up in plastic and let it sit for 10 minutes. You can prepare the rest of your recipe as it sits.


3.

Roll through the pasta machine once. Fold the sides over to clean up the edges and flour both sides to roll through again cleanly.


4.

Roll from the thickest to thinnest dial, flouring in between each roll.

You'll end up with this strip, which is where you can either cut circles for tortellini squares for ravioli. Or, you can put it through the add-on roller for spaghetti or linguine.

Check the Pear Pasta for how tortellini should look. :)



Don't forget to keep flouring in between steps to keep it from sticking together.

And boil.

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