Recipe: Homemade Pasta

Learning how to make fresh pasta is hugely rewarding for any foodie and leaves you with a great sense of pride afterward – especially when you see your family or friends tucking into a bowl of ravioli, tortelli or spaghetti that you have made.

Ingredients:

• Flour 
• Eggs 
• Salt

Method:

• Fit the dough hook to your Kenwood stand mixer.
• Add the ingredients into the bowl.
• Use the speed setting 2 and mix for about 3 minutes. You are looking for a mixture that looks crumbly but is still moist.
• If it seems a bit too dry, then add a tablespoon or two of water, and if it seems too sticky, then add a little extra flour
• Remove the mixture from the bowl.
• Put it onto a floured large board and then knead it by hand until it becomes a smooth dough.
• Use your hands to form a ball
• Wrap the dough 
• Let the dough rest at room temperature for at least 15 minutes (although this can be up to 2 hours if you need to do something else in the meantime).

Now it is time to turn your dough into pasta sheets:

• Start by rolling it out with a rolling pin into a flattened oval disc shape.
• Take your flattened disc and feed it through the Kenwood stand mixer pasta roller attachment changing the setting from 1 to 6 or 7 to get the right thickness (this is typically between 1-2mm). 
• Once you have rolled out the pasta sheets, it can be cut into different widths to make lasagne, spaghetti, trenette or fettuccine using the different pasta cutters.
• The last step is to dry the pasta for around 30 minutes, using a pasta rack or creating ‘nests’