Homemade Pasta Dough

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups general purpose flour
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 4 tablespoons water, warm

Recipe

• 1 place flour in large glass bowl and form a well in the middle.
• 2 place remaining ingredients in well.
• 3 with fork, in a circular motion, stir wet ingredients just around rim of dry ingredients, bringing a little bit of flour into the wet mixture a little at a time until all are mixed together.
• 4 pour mixture onto a floured board and knead until tight and glossy. it should be difficult to mix, to a point where no more flour will stay into mixture.
• 5 form into a ball and let sit, covered, for 1/2 an hour to an hour.
• 6 cut into manageable pieces to fit into pasta machine.
• 7 flour pieces as needed, if dough is to sticky it will not go through pasta machine smoothly.
• 8 run 3 time through larger slot size, then once through decreasing sizes progressively until desired thickness.
• 9 run through pasta cutter of choice then let dry overnight. i lay noodles across a clean broom handle, that i use for this purpose only, placed in between two chairs.
• 10 store dried pasta in sealed plastic bags or containers.
• 11 cook as needed. fresh pasta noodles need very little time to cook as compared to store bought pasta noodles.