Homemade Restaurant Pasta |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 3 Minutes |
Ready In: 3 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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Best flavor and best texture of any pasta you will ever have. Homemade pasta is the reason it pasta dishes taste so good in a Restaurant Ingredients:
10 ounces of all-purpose (or semolina if you have it) flour. (about 2 cups). |
1 tsp of salt |
3 eggs |
Directions:
1. Mound the flour on your countertop.
2. Make a well in the center add add the salt.
3. Break in the first egg and gently beat it with a fork until it thickens with some of the surrounding flour.
4. Repeat this process with the other two eggs.
5. Gather the mixture in a ball.
6. Lightly flour a work surface and knead until the dough is smooth, only about two minutes. (Don' t overwork the dough!).
7. Wrap the dough tightly in saran wrap to keep moist when not using.
8. To make pasta -
9. Cut dough into 6 pieces working each individually.
10. If you have a pasta machine - follow the directions to make the dough as thin as needed and cut into shape preferred.
11. If you don't have a pasta machine - you ahve to roll the dough out with a pin until it is as thin as you can possibly make it. (This takes some elbow grease!). Cut the dough with a pizza or pastry cutter to the shape you want.
12. Boil in salted water for about 3 minutes OR allow it to dry completely and store for later.
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