First, start with Italian semolina and 00 flours.
Second, get a machine
It’s far less time consuming than trying to do it in your food processor and with an attachment to your Kitchenaid to roll it out, trust me, I tried that for many years and it got to be too time consuming. The machine gives you the same results with 10% of the effort. Our Hamilton Beach works great. The instructions for ours are here 968fd3f4-7baa-402d-ae9c-3205436045b3.
Third pick a recipe for the pasta
Ingredients for Normal Pasta/ Noodle -250g
1 cup of plain flour which is about 250g
- 1/2 cup of water which is about 90ml
- The processing time will be about 10 minutes
- This dough will produce 300g of fresh pasta/ noodle and it is sufficient for 1-2 persons or a side dish for 4-6 persons.
Ingredients for Egg Normal Pasta/ Noodle -250g
- 1 cup of plain flour which is about 250g
- Water + 1 egg which is about 95ml
- The processing time will be about 10 minutes
- This dough will produce 300g of fresh pasta/ noodle and it is sufficient for 1-2 persons or a side dish for 4-6 persons.
Ingredients for Normal Pasta/ Noodle -500g
- 2 cups of plain flour which adds up to about 500g
- 2 cups of water which is about 180ml
- The processing time will be about 15 minutes
- This dough will produce 600g of fresh pasta/ noodle and it is sufficient for 3-4 persons or a side dish for 8-10 persons.
Ingredients for Egg Normal Pasta/ Noodle -500g
- 2 cups of plain flour which is 500g
- Water + 2 eggs which add to about 180ml
- The processing time will be about 15 minutes
- This dough will produce 600g of fresh pasta/ noodle and it is sufficient for 3-4 persons or a side dish for 8-10 persons.
Semolina Pasta
- 1 Philips flour cup Bob’s Red Mill Semolina Flour (about 275 g / 1-2/3 standard cup), plus extra for tossing with fresh pasta
- 1 Egg + enough Water to equal 95 mL (about 6 tbsp)
- Select noodle shape of choice and attach to machine.
- Place semolina flour in the Philips Avance mixing compartment. Whisk together eggs and water until thoroughly combined.
- Select program 1 and press start. Slowly pour egg mixture into the opening in the lid. Pasta dough will begin to form and noodles will appear within a few minutes. Cut pasta to preferred size. Toss fresh pasta in a small amount of semolina flour to avoid sticking.
- When ready to cook pasta, bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a rolling boil. Carefully place pasta in the boiling water a cook until done, about 4 – 5 minutes for spaghetti, 6 – 8 minutes for fettuccine and penne. Baked lasagna does not require pre-cooking fresh noodles.
Fourth, make some sauce
Finally, tips and cleanup
Tips from jugglingactmama.com:
- Follow the Hamilton Beach instructions for making pasta and select either pasta or quick pasta, I chose quick pasta for this recipe.
- Make sure your machine is properly assembled and you select your linguine shaping disc and then twist on the collar to hold it in place.
- Combine your fresh and raw spinach and a little bit of water in your blender and blend until completely smooth, set to the side.
- After that, add the flour and salt to the bin and clip in the lid.
- Turn on the pasta maker and select quick pasta, the machine will take care of the rest of the steps for you by automatically starting to knead and then switching to extruding the pasta and turning off.
- Once your flour is in, the machine will let you know exactly how much liquid to add, start by adding the spinach puree. Then slowly add the water while the machine is kneading the dough. (Adding the water after the spinach will help wash the spinach puree through the openings, using a small spatula will help too).
- It will automatically start to extrude the pasta once it is done kneading, the first inch or so of pasta might be a little bit floury still so simply cut off and set aside.
- Next, choose a length for your pasta and try to cut similarly sized sets of pasta for even cooking time.
- Once all of the pasta is made, turn off the pasta maker and let the parts air dry to harden the leftover pasta dough, it will be easier to clean this way.
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for a few minutes until it floats (about 4 minutes but different flours and temperature can play a role in cook time so test a piece first.
