How to Cook Homemade pasta

Many people like to eat homemade pasta which rarely people cook it in home. You rarely don’t need to hours of free time to make it. You even don’t need fancy equipment too to cook pasta.

Dough Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of flour
  • ½ tea spoon of salt
  • 3 large eggs
  • Olive oil

Procedure:

Start by whisking together flour and salt in a bowl. Mix it and then add eggs in this bowl. In the center of the flour make a well and add extra virgin olive oil. Add dried herbs or wet ingredients like pesto in it to give extra flavor to your pasta. Now slowly including some of the flour around the boundaries while whisk the oil and eggs with the fork. When whisking with a fork notice carefully when the dough becomes too thick, turn the dough out against a clean work space. Along with any remaining flour from the bowl noticeably. Mold the dough until you have a flat, firm and stiff ball of dough.

With the help of a plastic wrap the dough loosely and let it rest for 30 minutes at room temperature. If you don’t want to cook it now then stored in the refrigerator for up to a day or until you want to cook. Cut the pasta or divide the dough into a smaller portions when you are ready to make pasta. At a time work with one portion of a dough, leave the remaining portions with the plastic. So that the remaining portions prevent from drying out.

Flatten the dough portion while dust the dough freely with flour, now level it into a rectangular shape with the help of your hands. Make it like a long and thin sheet. Keep rolling it until the dough as thin as possible. To figure out that you rolled well or dough is ready to cook here is a tip for you. When you held up to light you should be able to see your hands through the pasta easily.

Once again dust the pasta freely with flour, then fold it into a wide roll. Instead of simply rolling the pasta up into a tube, fold the pasta into a flat roll will help you to prevent the pasta from being compressed as you cut it. To cut a pasta into strips use a sharp knife. Dust with flour and shake the cut pasta strands out into a free pile. The pasta is ready to cook you may dropped it into a boiling water. You may froze it if you want.
To cook a pasta boil the water add some salt and oil in it. When the water start boiling drop pasta in it, and wait until it cooked well. Now use it as you like in any recipe. Stay in touch for more delicious recipes.

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