Pasta Make

i found a page in a site teaching how to make your own fresh pasta.Hope it help you :) Basic recipes for fresh pasta Quantities for fresh pasta with eggs. For four persons, take 2 eggs and 220 gram flour, for every two persons extra you add 1 egg and 110 gram flour, and a pinch of salt. If you want to make stuffed pasta, be sure to add 1 teaspoon milk for every egg you use. These quantities are but guidelines: eggs may vary in size, flour can be old (dry). Keep looking and feeling whilst kneading the dough: If the dough stays too moist, add flour. If, on the other hand, the dough is too short (crumbly), add water, a little at a time. Quantities for pasta with durum wheat. For four persons, take 250 gram flour of durum wheat (somewhat yelow in colour) and 1,25 deciliter water, and a pinch of salt. To mix the dough. Make a heap of the flour on the worktop, with a hole in the middle (like a vulcano). Pour the eggs (and milk if you make stuffed pasta) in the hole, and start to mix. Just add some flour of the "mountain" to the "lava" of the eggs, and stir with your finger. Use one hand to mix the dough, use the other hand to keep the eggs from breaking through and running all over the table. You could use a bowl and a spoon or whisk for the mixing, but this way is much more fun. Check the consistency of your dough (not too moist or dry). Clean the worktop, and wash and dry your hands. To knead the dough. Now knead the dough for at least ten minutes. Use both hands, and not just your fingers, but also the ball of your hand. Fold, knead and twist the dough until you get a supple, slightly elastic ball. You can also throw the dough with force unto the worktop to make the dough even more elastic. Just mind you throw it straight downwards and not at an angle, because, being elastic, the dough will bounce straight off the worktop! I love throwing my dough, it is a great way to get rid of all your tension. Pack the dough in plastic foil and let it rest for thirty minutes. To roll out the dough. To make thin pasta sheets you can use a wooden, thin roller like a broomstick, but I prefer using a pasta machine: 2 stainless steel adjustable rollers. There are models that come with cutting rollers (correct term?) to cut tagliolini and tagliatelle. Start with the rollers in their widest position. Take a piece of dough the size of an egg, keep the rest of the dough covered in plastic foil or between to plates. Pass the dough through the rollers. Fold in two or three, pass again, without changing the distance between the two rollers. This is still kneading. Then you start adjusting the rollers by one "knot", and feed the still thick sheet of dough through. This you do only once before adjusting the rollers again and again, until you have a sheet as thin as you want. But mind: the sheet of dough will only get longer when you pass it through the pastamachine, it will never get any wider. So take care that you start with a piece of dough that is as wide as the rollers are. When you are done rolling out your dough, swipe the pasta machine clean with some paper towels. NEVER use any water whatsoever, not even a damp cloth! The rollers will loose their smoothness and the dough will stick to them. Proceed at once for stuffed pasta! When making stuffed pasta (tortelli, ravioli, capelleti etc.) you have added one teaspoon of milk to your dough for every egg you used. Do net let the pasta sheet dry after rolling it out, but stuff and cut the pasta at once. Concise recipe for ravioli stuffed with quail. Cutting and drying the pasta. When making fettucine or tagliatelle you have to let the sheets of pasta dough dry on a clean kitchen towel for fifteen minutes before cutting. If you don't, the strips are in danger of not separating properly. Guide the sheet through the cutting roll of the pasta machine, or roll the sheets loosely and cut with a sharp knife. Let the pasta rest for at least five more minutes before cooking. Drying pasta on a "mill" like you see on this picture looks very professional, but it is only functional when yo plan to cook the pasta shortly after. When you want to dry pasta to keep it voor a longer period of time, it is best to let it dry in loosely formed "bird nests" on a tea towel. When tagliatelle dries on a mill you get long, hard stucks that easily break. You dry sheets of dough for lasagna on a flat surface on a tea towel. Boiling pasta. Fresh pasta only needs a few seconds in boiling water! Bring plenty of water to the boil, add some salt. Add the pasta. As soon as the water is boiling again, count till ten, then drain the pasta immediately. A special pasta pan is not obligatory, but very handy in use. You lift the perforated insert out of the pan with the boiling water slowly and carefully), and the pasta is drained already. When you want to reheat the pasta all you have to do is place the insert back in the still hot water for a second, and lift it out again. The pasta is hot again, without becoming overcooked. Take care that when you start boiling the pasta, the sauce and accompaniments are ready to serve. Can you keep home made pasta? You can keep uncooked pasta a long time without refrigerating (even longer than a month). Just let the pasta dry out well, rolled very loosely. Then keep them in a large bowl without cover in a dry closet. Take care that the pasta is completely dry before placing it in a bowl. If not, the strips will stick together and you end up with a large unpalatable lump. When pasta is dried for a longer period, it needs to boil longer, up to several minutes. Just test your pasta while it is boiling. Keeping stuffed pasta. Stuffed pasta should not be kept for a longer period. The stuffing can go off, and also it contains liquid, which prevents the pasta dough to dry completely. The boiling of stuffed pasta takes a little longer than cut pasta. If the stuffed pasta floats, it is generally done Coloured pasta. This can be very decorative, but let's not forget that pasta is the background to the sauce, not its rival. The colour of the pasta should harmonize with the sauce, and the taste of the pasta must not be too pronounced. You could add spices or herbs to the dough, but be very careful. Green pasta. This is made by adding finely cut, blanched spinach to the dough. Take care that the spinach is as dry as possible. You could blender the squeezed spinach with one of the eggs for the dough. Proceed as described above. Black pasta. This is made with the ink from squids. Temper the ink with the eggs. Red pasta. Use the coloured water in which beetroots have been cooked. Because you use water, it best to make pasta dough with water instead of with eggs. Yellow pasta. Add saffron or kurkuma to the dough. then you make with the sauce that you want and nha nham!!:)

I can make an Italian style spaghetti, I use fresh tomatoes along with the tomato sauce in cans. Try finding the recipe for Carbonara, I heard it's easy to do as you don't need to sautee anything like in meat sauce.

I love pasta from the pizza shop, I think international food is better cooked by the people from that country, so I much prefer it from a pizza shop.

I bought the pasta and pasta sauce from store. With that ingridents I make pasta dish adding chicken or shrimp, baisil, onion, masroom etc.

i buy pasta. then i used to cook them in boiling water with some garlic in and salt...the sauce is my bf's resort...