I have tried making my own pasta a few times in the pasta, most of my attempts have not been that successful, mostly due to the fact that the dough did not hold together well enough. I undertook a new effort today, once again trying to best the finnicky dough, but this time I used the pasta roller attachment for our standing mixer. The pasta roller really seemed to compress the dough and force it to take on a more solid structure before you lowered the thickness setting to get it to the desired thickness. This made for a sturdy solid pasta the withheld the process unlike most of my previous attempts.
Recipe:
100g Flour
1 Large Egg
Method:
From Jamie Oliver
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| After some time in the food processor |
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| The kneaded dough, wrapped up and ready to sit in the fridge for 1/2 hour |
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| The pasta roller in all its glory! |
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| The dough stretched out a little ready to make its first run through the roller. |
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| It survived the first roll! Maybe I am getting better at this. |
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| Having been through all 8 thickness settings, I folded up the pasta sheet ready to be cut. |
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| I decided to make fettucine like pasta |
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| The final product. You may think it doesn't look like that much, and you would be correct! Half of it got shredded when I tried to skip a thickness step on the roller. Getting lazy was a bad idea! |
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