These are the only ingredients you will need--but a lot more eggs than are pictured here.
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Add flour, salt & olive oil to a bowl. You don't have to use Himalayan Pink salt - any salt will do. You can also use other kinds of flour -- but semolina and extra fine flour are the tastiest!
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Separate eggs and egg yolk.
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Add at least 4 egg yolks and 4 whole eggs to the mixture.
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Mix together with your hands. You can use a food processor with a dough blade if you like. To each their own.
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You'll notice that the last mixing shot the batch was dry. I added more of the egg whites, few more eggs & more olive oil. You may need to experiment with the texture to make sure it is wet & elastic.
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Knead the dough in such a fashion that you aren't folding over the pasta dough and adding air. Push in and stretch out. Push in and stretch out.
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Once kneaded well, wrap in plastic wrap and put in refrigerator for at least a half hour, if it stays in there longer --- GREAT!
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Take the pasta out of the fride(I think I kept it in for about an hour and a half).
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This is basically the texture of the dough when you take of the wrap. Sticky smooth!
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Cut up the dough into decent sized pieces. Flour the dough.
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Roll out the dough just enough that you'll be able to stick one end into the pasta roller -- and cover with flour so it doesn't stick in the roller.
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Place the dough in the roller and roll through on the thickest setting (on my "Atlas 150", I used the #1 setting).
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Once the dough has went through the roller once, drag the pasta through your flour so it doesn't get sticky.
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Now fold your pasta in half like you see in this photo.
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Now put it through the roller again at the same setting.
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Dependent on how thick you want your pasta, turn up the dial to make your pasta more thin. Repeat the folding, flouring & rolling until you reach desired thickness.
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Cut up the long piece of pasta into sections ad fold as shown in video.
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Slice pasta into whatever thickness you would like. If your pasta maker has a cutter, use that if you want spaghetti or linguine. Then separate and dust with flour as shown & place on parchment paper.
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Place your pasta in a bunch of little piles -- mainly just to portion it out and make sure it dries in smaller batches. At this point you can freeze/refrigerate your pasta -- or go ahead and boil it!
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5-7 minutes and it's done!!!! Remove with a spider spoon but DO NOT RINSE THE PASTA. That's sacrilege.
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Top with your favorite sauce/veg/meat/seafood, etc and ENJOY!! Once you make the real thing you'll never want dried pasta again! I promise.
Karen Kerr (author) 7 months ago
Mark Samson 7 months ago
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