A good basic recipe for pasta dough for
making homemade pasta and noodles.
Basic Pasta Dough
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup semolina flour
8 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
About 1/4 cup water
Semolina or all-purpose flour, for dusting
- In a food processor fitted with the steel
blade, combine the flours, egg yolks, salt, olive oil, and 3
tablespoons of the water. Process until the dough begins to hold
together, then stop the machine and pinch the dough to test it.
If it is too dry, add up to 1 more tablespoon of water and process
until it forms a moist ball. Turn out onto a lightly floured
smooth work surface and knead by hand, until a smooth ball is
formed. Loosely wrap in plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature
for 20 minutes to 1 hour.
- Cut the dough into 4 equal pieces. Keep
the other pieces covered in plastic while you roll out one piece
at a time, by hand with a rolling pin or through the rollers
of a pasta machine, stretching the dough to the desired thickness.
- If using a pasta machine, set the rollers
at the widest opening. Flatten the first piece of dough into
a thick strip no wider than the machine, to enable it to pass
through the rollers. If necessary, dust the pasta very lightly
with flour. Run the pasta through the machine. Fold in thirds,
crosswise, and run through the machine again. Repeat this procedure
two more times, until the dough is smooth and somewhat elastic.
Set the machine to the next smaller opening and run the dough
through the rollers. Continue rolling and stretching the dough,
using the smaller opening each time, until the next to the last
or the last opening is reached, dusting lightly with flour only
as necessary. (The strip of dough will be long. If you don't
have enough space on your worktable, halfway through the rolling
process cut the strip of dough in half and continue to work with
each piece separately, keeping the unused dough covered.)
- Adjust the cutting mechanism to the desired
width, cut the noodles, and allow them to dry before cooking.
(To dry, arrange the cut pasta on a baking sheet sprinkled with
semolina flour. Sprinkle the layer of pasta with more flour,
place a piece of parchment paper over them, and repeat process
with remaining cut pasta. Dry for at least 15 to 20 minutes.)
- Repeat with the remaining pieces of dough.
Makes about 1 1/2 pounds pasta.
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