Basic Egg Pasta
By: Jenny MacKinnell
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 3:58pm

Ingredients




4 large eggs
1 tablespoon water
3 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preparation

1 Place eggs, water, flour and salt in mixer bowl. Attach bowl and flat beater. Turn to speed 2 and mix 30 seconds. Exchange flat beater for dough hook. Turn to speed 2 and knead for 2 minutes. Remove dough from bowl and hand knead for 1-2 minutes. Divide dough into eight pieces before processing with pasta roller attachment. 2 Flatten each piece of dough to approx. 3/8 inch thick. Set roller at 1 by pulling knob and turning to setting 1. Turn mixer on speed 2 or 4. Feed flattened piece of dough into rollers to knead. Fold dough in half and roll again. Repeat folding and kneading dough until smooth and pliable. Make sure you are always lightly dusting pasta with flour while rolling. Continue the 'kneading and flattening' with remaining pieces. 3 Move adjustment knob to setting 2. Feed dough through rollers to further flatten. Change setting to 3 and feed dough through rollers again. Continue to increase until desired setting (about 5).

About


This recipe is used with the using a the pasta roller attachment for the Kitchen Aid Mixer.  Is it easier, does it work and worth the expense?  Come find out.