Pasta at home requires just a little planning but very little technique. It is helpful, though not necessary, to have a pasta machine to cut the dough.
If you use large eggs, the ratio for a good texture is one egg per 100g of flour.
I recommend using half Shipton Mill '00' Italian flour and half bread flour, but I have used all bread flour as well, or semolina, or a mix, and the results are still good.
Ingredients
For four people, use:
600g flour (mix 450g Italian '00' flour and 150g bread flour, or 3:1 ratio, if possible)
6 large eggs (for medium eggs, adjust flour quantities, e.g. 5 eggs and 450g flour)
Two good pinches of salt
Method
Work the ingredients together with a scraper for about 5-7 minutes, until completely integrated into a fairly smooth ball. If it is very dry, add 15g water or olive oil to adjust, and if overly sticky, add a similar amount of flour.
Rest the dough for 30 minutes.
Divide it into 16 or 20 balls, then roll each one through the pasta machine, dust with semolina to keep the sheets from sticking to each other on a plate.
[If making the pasta by hand, roll the balls out with a roller or pestle, and then in the next step, just cut into strips with a knife].
Boil a generous pan of salted water, cut the sheets into your desired pasta form (we love wide tagliatelle).
Cook for about 2 minutes. When the pasta starts to rise to the surface, it's ready.
Serve with your favourite sauce. Wild garlic pesto is unbeatable when it's in season.
Forage for wild garlic and make a delicious, nutritious pasta in a few minutes! '00' flour is the right one to use, but I make this using Shipton Mill organic white bread flour and semolina and it works just fine in a pinch - no pasta machine required!
Great fresh pasta dough for shaping into lasagne, spaghetti or tagliatelle. I make this with my two kids Evie (5) and Matilda (3) regularly :-)
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