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If not, let it boil a few more seconds and try again.Īt that point, drain the pasta and add it to the sauce pan with the sauce in it. Snag a strand and taste it and evaluate its texture. About the time the pasta floats, it should be ready, or close to ready.

So little time that you should prepare your sauce in a separate pot as it's better to have the sauce wait for the pasta than to have the pasta wait for the sauce.īring a large stock pot of water to a boil. The goal is for your dough roller to be able to handle it and roll it further.įresh pasta takes very little time to cook. Flour the dough ball, and roll it flat, around 3/8" or just under 1 cm. Prepare your dough roller and set it to its widest opening. Start by cutting the amount of pasta dough you need off the dough ball. I have a trusty Atlas machine I've had for over 20 years, and a recently acquired KitchenAid attachment that I'll use for this article. You can roll out the dough with a rolling pin, but I prefer to use a pasta machine. Once the dough is kneaded and springs back when you press it, wrap it in cling wrap and refrigerate it for at least half an hour. A small amount of added flour or water can make a huge difference in the dough consistency. If the dough is too dry, wet your hands and knead the water in. If the dough is too wet, add a little more flour. At first, it will be a shaggy mess, but it will come together. As the mass absorbs more flour, switch to kneading the dough. If you have a break in the flour wall and the eggs begin to escape, you can move some of the flour to block the great escape. Gradually incorporate the flour that is surrounding the eggs. Put the olive oil, starter, and eggs in the center.

Move the flour so there is a large hole in the middle, making the flour look like a doughnut or life saver. Pour them onto a clean countertop in a mound. Large eggs in the USA average 50 grams each.

If you would rather not use starter, you may omit it and add another egg to the pasta dough.

The starter may be active or discarded starter.

Using whole grain flours will increase the amount of fiber in the pasta.

The flour you use will change the nutritional values of the pasta.

Ingredients for 12 seventy gram servings: Volumetric Measure (Cups) In this recipe, we'll just make fettuccine, and may include a recipe or two that uses Fettuccine. And once your have the pasta, the possibilities have just begun! You can boil it, bake, or fry it, stuff it or top it. Wikipedia has a list of many of the pasta shapes, complete with pictures. It is estimated there are over 350 different shapes of pasta just in Italy. But pasta is even more flexible, more of a blank canvas. Pizza dough is a blank canvas you can top with whatever we like, and which we can fold it into a calzone or stromboli, And you can bake or fry pizza dough. In later steps, the dough is rolled, which completes dough development. Once the flour is incorporated, the dough is kneaded until it will spring back from a finger press. The flour is added to the dry ingredients a bit at a time. The liquid ingredients are put into the hole in the doughnut and then they are mixed with the dry ingredients. I like to use the "fountain" method where the dry ingredients are piled into a mound on the work surface and then spread a bit to form a doughnut or lifesaver shape. James Brown, the owner of Barton Springs Mill, likes to make pasta with a type 00 flour he makes from his Danko rye. It has a lovely earthy taste and amazing texture. The pasta shown in the pictures was made with half King Arthur Sir Galahad and half Rouge de Bordeaux from Barton Springs Mill. I like to mix flours to give the pasta extra flavor, All-purpose and semola is nice, as is all-purpose and type 00. All-purpose, bread flour, high-gluten, semolina (semola), type 00, even whole grain flours such as whole wheat and rye. It also gets rid of some excess sourdough starter, which is also a plus.īefore we go further, let's talk about flour a little bit. When I add sourdough starter, the pasta dough stays fresh for at least a week. And the pasta dough tended to brown and get icky on about 2 or 3 days. I tend to make a lot of pasta dough at once, put it in the fridge and roll it out as needed. Honestly, the pasta didn't taste different, but it lasts longer.

Still, as a die hard sourdough nerd, I had to give it a try. Pasta isn't risen, so it wasn't obvious that sourdough would add anything to the pasta. And, honestly, when I heard about sourdough pasta I was skeptical. What's this? Sourdough pasta? Isn't this a bread blog? Nah, it's a sourdough blog. Sourdough Pasta Sourdough, it's not just for breakfast any more!