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Making your own pasta is easy and the results are delicious. This recipe makes about 500g of pasta. Use 00 flour (available from most supermarkets) if you can get it. If you can't, don't worry, plain flour will work perfectly well.
We used the Imperia SP150 Pasta Machine
with the Tagliatelle Cutter.
Ingredients 300g pasta flour2 large eggsa little lukewarm water
Method
Put the flour on a worktop and make a hole in the middle for the eggs. Beat the eggs with a fork and gently mix in the flour until the mixture forms a smooth dough. Knead the pasta with the palm of your hand on a floured work surface. If the pasta is too dry or crumbly, add a little lukewarm water. When a smooth, silky texture has been reached, form a ball and leave to rest for 20 minutes in a covered bowl.
Pass the dough several times through the rollers of the pasta machine to make a thin sheet of pasta, each time folding the sheet in two and sprinkling with flour. After rolling 6-8 times the dough should be soft and elastic. If it is too sticky, sprinkle lightly with flour. Then, reduce the space between the rollers, turning the adjustment knob one notch and pass the pasta through the rollers again.
Continue reducing the space between the rollers, one notch at a time, until the required thickness is reached. At any point, If the sheet is too long and difficult to handle, divide it in half. Leave the sheet to rest for 10 minutes before cutting. Finally, pass the pasta sheet through the cutters to make the pasta of your choice. The pasta can be used straight away or dried or frozen for future use. To dry, hang the strands over a drying rack and store in an airtight container.
Other Pasta Making Accessories
The Pasta Drying Rack
will save space and help keep the pasta under control. The Motor Attachment
takes the effort out of producing pasta in larger quantities, freeing your hands and improving consistency. Use the Ravioli Tray
or Ravioli Attachment
to make ravioli or the Gnocchi Attachment
to make different types of gnocchi.
The Imperia Pasta Kit includes the SP150, 4 different cutters and a 36 section ravioli tray. Everything you need to make spaghetti, tagliatelle, fettuccine, lasagnette, lasagne and ravioli.
Imperia Pasta Makers
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