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Basic pasta dough

basic pasta dough

This quantity of pasta is for 4 people, but a good rule of thumb is to use 100g of flour and 1 egg for each person to be served.

Serves:

4

Preparation Time:

around 20 minutes plus resting time

Cooking Time:

N/A

Ingredients

400g flour(strong flour). Plain flour can be used if strong flour is not available.
4 eggs

Method

  1. Place the flour into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook. Start the mixer on the lowest speed. In a bowl, briefly whisk the eggs with a fork and add to the mixer. Knead for about 5 minutes, until the dough is very firm. Wrap in plastic wrap and allow to rest for about 15 minutes.
  2. Cut the dough into cricket ball-sized pieces and work with one piece at a time. Starting at the thickest setting of a pasta machine, put the pieces of dough through each setting twice until it is the desired thickness. Take the long strip of pasta and fold it in on itself until it is the right width to put back through the machine. Feed it through from the thickest setting again. Repeat this whole process one more time. Now you can cut the pasta into the desired shape and allow to air dry, if not using the same day. It can be frozen if you wish.

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