It's very easy to make your own pasta. You do need a pasta machine, which you can buy for about £20-30 and it's even easier if you have a food processor too.
In our short video, which you can watch by clicking on the green 'play' icon on the right hand side of the page, we show how it's done.
You can also watch
Tracy Powell's recipe for ricotta and garlic ravioli, made using this fresh pasta, by clicking here.
Fresh homemade pasta recipe
Ingredients
100g Italian '00' flour or plain flour and 1 large egg per person
Method
Combine the flour and eggs in a food processor until it becomes a firm dough
knead the dough by hand on a lightly floured surface for about five or six minutes
Leave the dough wrapped in a clean, damp tea towel for 15 minutes
Cut the dough into six equal pieces
Roll each piece through the pasta machine starting on the widest setting. Do this seven times, folding the dough in half before each run through.
Now start to feed the dough through the machine (without folding it) on progressively thinner settings, ending with the second from thinnest.
Now you can use the pasta in your own recipes (
I recommend Tracy Powell's!). It will take about 3-5 minutes to cook in slightly salted boiling water.
Now see the other great recipes on the
Cooks Around Town home page by clicking here