The other night when I was planning on making spaghetti, I noticed that I didn’t have any noodles. “Ah, time to add this to the grocery list.” But wait, why not make my own? I make lasagna noodles from scratch, why not pasta noodles in other forms? So I decided to live up to the challenge make some pasta!
I channeled my “inner-grandma” and envisioned an elderly women in sunny Tuscany, wearing an apron, and perhaps wearing a loose bandanna on her head. In her tiny, but adorably rustic kitchen, she is rolling out pasta, preparing for family dinner… Where do I get my imagination?! I digress.. haha!
Anyways, as you can see from the picture below, it’s quite easy! Two parts eggs to one part flour! Not only was it easy to make with ingredients I already had, but it was filling! Surprisingly more filling than store-bought noodles! To elaborate on this, I can normally eat a MOUNTAIN of pasta drenched in sauce (maybe you didn’t need to know that I can eat enough for a small family.. hehe…). With this homemade pasta, I could barely finish 1 cup worth of cooked pasta! Given, this was hand cut, and not as thin as regular spaghetti, but my mountain metaphor applies to all pastas 🙂
Homemade Pasta
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Flour
- 4 Eggs
Recipe:
- On a clean surface, round a pile of flour.
- Create a hole in the middle of the flour with walls tall enough to contain eggs
- Crack the eggs into the hole
- Begin whisking the eggs with a fork and slowly incorporating the flour starting with the walls.
- Once this becomes formed dough, use your hands to kneed the dough and incorporate the remaining flour.
- Dough should not be sticking to your hands; add sprinkles of flour if this happens
- Dough should also not be too dry, where pieces looked “cracked.” If this happens, wet your hands and work the dough to incorporate just a bit of moisture.
- Roll out your dough to ideally as thin as possible; it may be easier to start separating the dough in pieces instead of trying to roll the whole dough ball out.
- Slice up the dough into whatever shape pasta you’d like; I used a pizza cutter to slice into strips.
- Cook pasta in boiling salted water for 4 minutes. Toss in olive oil to keep separated.
Scrumptious Bliss 