Homemade Pasta Dough

Italian Pasta Diet...

1. You walka pasta da bakery.
2. You walka pasta da candy store.
3. You walka pasta da ice cream shop.
4. You walka pasta da table and fridge.

Homemade Pasta Dough

4 Cups Flour (500 Grams)

4 Eggs

1 Tsp Kosher Salt

Measure the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl, make a hole in the center and drop the eggs into it. Using a fork, wisk the eggs slowly into the flour. If the dough is too dry add a little water, if it is too wet add some flour.

Remove the dough from the bowl to a slightly floured surface. Knead the dough until you have achieved smooth dough. The goal is smooth dough that does not stick to your fingers.

Cut off about 1/8 of the dough and cover the rest with a damp towel.

It does not matter if you are using a pasta machine or hand rolling from this point on. The same basic steps are involved.

You will want to roll out the dough using the #1 setting on your machine or to about a ¼ an inch, lightly flour if necessary, fold over and repeat 6 to 8 times.

After this, you can roll the dough to your desired thickness and cut.

Boil right away or dry on a cooling rack and store in a zip top bag for up to a week.