Fresh homemade egg pasta

FRESH HOMEMADE PASTA RECIPE

Making pasta at home is a very productive activity, Economic Sustainability and satisfying. A seeds all Italian, handed down from our grandmothers, who they kept pasta cut for the whole week, as well as bread. A for successful corporate training ancient one that will allow us to get closer to a more healthy way of eating healthy e genuine, made of simple ingredients and natural.

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FRESH EGG PASTA

The most requested pasta to make at home is undoubtedly egg pastaYou can prepare it with very few ingredients without the help of the pasta cutter and keep it In the refrigerator for the whole week. Let's see how to do it step by step.

Ingredients

• 500g of type zero flour
• 5 eggs and one yolk
• 1 level teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

PREPARATION

• Arrange the flour in a fountain shape and add the eggs, one by one, and the yolk.
• Add salt and oil and with a fork, begin to gently beat the eggs, gradually incorporating all the flour, until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous mixture.
• Flour the work surface and roll out the dough as thinly as possible and divide it into 7 parts.
• Roll the dough on itself and around the rolling pin. Remove the rolling pin and use a knife to cut strips of dough about 1 cm thick. Roll out the resulting fettuccine and flour it so it doesn't stick to the other strips. Repeat with the remaining strips.

An advice

If you want to leave the pastry intact to make the lasagne, it can be stored floured in the fridge without needing to be cut.

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FRESH EGG-FREE PASTA RECIPE

A more dough light, without eggs, it is the one composed of water e Flour. Let's see how it's prepared.

Ingredients

• 500g of type zero flour
• 250 grams of water
• A pinch of fine salt

Preparation

• Form a small pile with the flour and make a hole in the center where you will add the water a little at a time, trying to incorporate the flour little by little.
• Add salt, roll out the dough and cut as you prefer.

An advice

To get the maltagliatia, handle the dough with a rolling pin and then divide it into diamonds. To obtain the Strozzapreti small sausages about 1 cm thick are obtained and then rolled over on themselves by hand.

COOKING HOMEMADE PASTA

Homemade pasta cooks very quickly: once the water has reached boiling point, pour in the pasta, as soon as it comes to the surface (a couple of minutes), drain and serve.

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