Pasta dough from scratch
A dough which will further open for you a wide array of pasta options.
Equipment
- 1 Rolling Pin
- 1 Pasta sheeter machine
Ingredients
- 1000 gm Flour '00' flour preferably but all purpose will also work.
- 10 nos Eggs
Instructions
- Sieve flour and then make a well in the middle.
- Add 10 whole eggs in that well and start mixing it with flour.
- Knead until it becomes homogeneous, if needed add a few splashes of water. Knead into a very tight dough.
- Give it some rest so that the flour absorbs all the moisture from the egg. Atleast for 30mins
- After giving it rest start rolling it with a rolling pin. Your life will become a lot easier if you have a pasta machine, if not that works to as the Italian nonnas to still make it with a rolling pin.
- Roll it into a thin sheet and then make your desired pasta shape.
- Cut a 12 cm long and 8 cm broad sheet. take both the ends and bring them to the middle. again take the new ends and bring them to the middle, don't forget to dust flour after every fold. Cut 0.5cm strips, open its strands and voila your fettuccini pasta is ready.
- Make salted boiling water. Blanch the pasta for not more than 30 seconds. add it to your desired sauce.