Homemade Pasta

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Fresh Pasta

Homemade pasta is very easy to make. It’s not faster than opening a box of Barilla and dropping it into boiling water but it is more satisfying if you’ve got about an hour. And a food processor. And a pasta roller 🙂

Fresh Pasta

I suppose I could have used my hands to work the raw ingredients into a dough – but then I would have gotten my wine glass completely filthy. And I really like recipes that read: “dump everything in a single bowl and turn machine on.” Those are easy to do with a baby taking up one arm. And the pasta roller creates a uniform thickness and perfect strips of fettuccine. Not so easy to do with a baby taking up one arm!

Fresh Pasta

Homemade Pasta

Easy homemade pasta in under an hour!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
  • 1 1/4 cup semolina flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 3 Tbsp dry white wine
  • 3 Tbsp water, plus more if necessary

Instructions

  1. Add dry ingredients to a food processor fitted with the dough blade. Pulse to mix. Add egg yolks, oil, and wine. Process and add water 1 tablespoon at a time just until dough forms a ball. Knead a few times, form a ball, and flatten to one inch thick. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
  2. On a floured surface, roll pasta to 1/16-inch thickness and cut as desired. (I used a pasta roller so I divided the dough in half and each half into three equal pieces before sending it through the roller a few times.)
  3. Let the cut pasta sit for 5 minutes. Place in salted, boiling water 5-7 minutes to cook.

Notes

Yields: 6 servings

Adapted from Michael Chiarello's Handmade Pasta

Estimated time: 45 minutes

14 comments… add one
  • Keesha aka Prissycook

    I think your wine glass comment was very logical (and made me smile).

  • Perfect timing since my mom JUST found my grandmother’s old pasta maker…in mint condition no less! I’m so excited to make this. Thanks for the recipe suggestion.

  • What a delightful post! I have been wanting to make homemade pasta for awhile, and this has given me inspiration. I’m sure it elevates a normal pasta meal into something extraordinary.

    I’m enjoying your blog immensely. Thank you for sharing!

  • Your noodles look lovely. I keep meaning to make some more pasta. I keep putting it off for some reason. There’s nothing like homemade pasta.

  • Can you omit the wine in this recipe? I don’t allow alcohol in my home.

  • Memoria – Sure! Just replace it with water.

  • oh girl you make it look so easy. i tried it once, all by hand and it wasn’t that great. maybe i should try it w/ wine in it, anything w/ wine is better right?

  • its always nice to see someone taking the time to make their own pasta…thanks for sharing
    Dennis

  • You should try my way, easier. Just dump ingredients in Kitchenaid, mix and wrap in plastic for 20 mins. Fit Kitchenaid with pasta extruder attachment, feed dough in while water is boiling, throw product into water, put down baby, eat.

  • Just for the comment about the wine glass, you are my hero. Yet again, I wish I’d brought my food processor with me when I moved to Europe. I am guessing pretty assuredly that this will be my next big purchase. 🙂 This recipe looks genius.

  • jeanna

    What kind of pasta roller are you using? I need to get one but I never know whether I should spend the big bucks and get a fancy one or if a basic one will do the job.

    Thanks. And,… your pasta looks so gorgeous!

    • Thanks, Jeanna! It’s a Weston Pasta Roller. If you have a restaurant supply nearby, you could also check there for pasta rollers that are less pricey than what you can find in most “regular” stores.

  • pasta looks so pretty. i’ve now had my pasta roller for two years and have yet to use it…. i really really need to! 🙂

  • Ashley

    This is so inspiring! Thank you for posting this – it’s getting me excited to try and make my own pasta. Best with the baby 🙂

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