Homemade Pasta Dough
🇮🇹 Italy
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 3 large egg yolks, beaten
- 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp Diamond Crystal kosher salt (or 1/2 tsp Morton kosher salt)
- Cornmeal or semolina flour, for dusting
Steps
- In a stand mixer bowl, mix eggs, egg yolks, flour, olive oil, and salt by hand until a shaggy dough forms.
- Attach dough hook and knead on medium-low speed until smooth and elastic, 6–8 minutes.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rest at least 30 minutes.
- Dust a baking sheet with cornmeal or semolina flour.
- Set pasta machine to widest setting and dust lightly with cornmeal or semolina flour.
- Divide dough into 4 equal pieces, keeping unused pieces wrapped in plastic.
- Flatten one piece into a narrow rectangle and pass through the rollers.
- Fold the ends of the dough to meet in the center, fold in half, and run through the rollers again.
- Continue passing dough through rollers without folding, narrowing the machine setting one notch after each pass, dusting with cornmeal if sticky, until dough is about 1/16 inch thick (setting 8 on most machines).
- Transfer rolled pasta sheet to the prepared baking sheet; repeat with remaining dough pieces.
- Cut pasta into desired shapes.
- Dough can be made 1 day ahead and kept chilled.
Notes
Alternatively, dough pieces can be rolled out lengthwise with a rolling pin until 1/16 inch thick if no pasta machine is available.
Source: www.bonappetit.com