How to Make Homemade Pasta

How to Make Homemade Pasta How to Make Homemade Pasta Pasta is one of those yummy and mouth watering treats which no one can afford to miss. Often pasta is the best to serve dish for the small hunger crunches during the evening breaks. Although it’s a lot easier to buy pasta from the departmental store, still making pasta at home has its own charm. Making pasta at home involves a lot of fun and the best thing about it is that you don’t need a lot of things to make it. Moreover you can make your own customizations like framing the pasta in to any shape you like and you can make those rare and complicated flavors which are very hard to find in the local market. You don’t even require a pasta making machine for it, all you need is just a rolling pin. So just follow the easy steps given below to make pasta from scratch.
Step # 1: The very basic step is to collect the necessary ingredients required to make the pasta at home. All you need are two cups of plain flour, two eggs, two tablespoons of olive oil and finally a pinch of salt to taste.
Step # 2: Then on a clean surface spread the flour. Then make a slight hollow in between. In the hollow add olive oil and small amount of salt.
Step # 3: Then the eggs are beaten inside the hollow. Then the mixture is gradually whisked by either a fork or a beater. Keep caution while whisking to prevent the spilling of the egg yolk from the edges. The whisking is then done manually by hand until the mixture become totally homogeneous.
Step # 4: The dough is then manually kneaded until it becomes perfectly glossy because sticky dough doesn’t produce good quality pasta. Add a little amount of flour if necessary. The more the dough is kneaded the better it becomes to work with. The dough is then left to rest for about twenty minutes.
Step # 5: The dough is then divided into parts so that it becomes easy to handle, leaving behind the other parts while you get on with your work.
Step # 6: Then on a very neat and clean surface start rolling the dough. The dough can be rolled into any shape. The rectangular shape is recommended so as to ease the whole process. Then the very thin rolled piece is folded and again rolled. This process is repeated ten to twenty times so that the dough becomes malleable.
Step # 7: The dough is then rolled to make it as thin as possible. Making razor sharp thin dough is the key to delicious pasta. Apply a very small amount of olive oil to make the dough more malleable. It is then left on dry towel or tissue paper for about thirty minutes to season.
Step # 8: The pasta dough is then finally cut in to micro strips and left on the broomstick handles to dry. Finally the homemade pasta is ready to be cooked.