We had seen an episode of Jamie Oliver where he makes fresh pasta in literally 45 seconds. After Karen’s mom gave us a pasta machine she had gotten at the thrift store, we had to try it ourselves. This is a quick easy recipe that will take you no time at all.
Ingredients:
- Flour
- Eggs
- Salt
Ratio: 1 egg for every 3/4 to 1 cup of flour, pinch of salt. Our hen’s eggs are huge, so we generally need more flour than I’ve recommended here.
Throw the ingredients into the food processor. Start off with 3/4 cup flour per egg. Pulse until the mixture is a bunch of sticky crumbles. Keep throwing in more flour until you achieve this. Pulse away!
The mixture should look something like this:
Roll it through the pasta machine at the widest setting.
After each ‘roll through’, fold the pasta sheet in half onto itself and throw some flour on either side. Keep rolling through. I’d suggest doing this 5-6 times to give it a nice silky consistency.
Next…keep firing that pasta sheet through the machine, decreasing the opening between the rollers each time. The sheet should have great elasticity, allowing it to get very thin without tearing. Fold the sheet into a roll and slice it up into your pasta pieces.
Boil for about a minute…this cooks quickly.
Enjoy with your favorite cooked veggies or homemade sauce! Do you have any pasta suggestions we should try?
This looks awesome! I wish I could find a pasta machine at a thrift store. Yummy.