If you are anything like me I’m sure that you have asked yourself how to make homemade pasta. And the answer is right here I tried this amazingly easy recipe for your perfect homemade pasta dough.
You will need like 4 pasta ingredients: 3 large eggs, flour, olive oil and salt. The eggs should be room temperature, you can choose the kind of flour that you like the work with, or what in your opinion will be the best flour for pasta. If the texture of the dough doesn’t feel right you can add one or two tablespoons of water.
Now we go to the fun part of the recipe were you need to move the dough on a working surface and knead the dough for 10 minutes. Then you and the pasta dough should rest for 20-30 minutes.
After that you can split the dough into smaller balls and use that pasta making machine to do the pasta shape that you desire to make your favorite pasta recipe.
And just like that you have made you pasta from scratch, with so few ingredients and so little of your time. Now you can be proud of your own fresh pasta.
How to cook fresh pasta? Cooking the fresh pasta is just as easy as cooking dried pasta only that is faster. So you will put water and salt in pot, bring to boil then add the pasta and cook for 3-5 minutes, and drain immediately so that the pasta remains al dente.
You can make your homemade dough in advance and you can store it in the refrigerator up to two days. After you have tried this recipe and find out how incredible easy and quick it is to do your homemade pasta dough you will not stop making your pasta with your ingredients inside your home.
Pasta Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 3 eggs large, room temperature
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Mix the flour, eggs, olive oil and salt in a bowl. If needed you can add 1 or 2 tablespoons of water.
- Put the dough into a work surface and knead for about 10 minutes. Then let it rest for 20-30 minutes.
- After that you can use the pasta machine the give your pasta the shape you want.
