In my house it is very common to eat pasta. But for us, pasta is not something thrown together and topped with ketchup. Pasta is something to cherish. So, more often than not, I make homemade pasta from scratch specially for the meal ahead. The truth is that once you get the hang of it, it doesn’t really take that much time. You just have to plan ahead. Making a dish with homemade pasta is like roasting a big piece of meat in the oven. There are some things you have to do beforehand, then there is the cooking = waiting, then after that more steps to take until you have a beautiful meal on your table. But I swear it is all worth it. Because once you get the skill underhand, you will only want to make homemade pasta from that moment on. This recipe for easy egg pasta dough Spaghetti is the only one you will ever need. If you do not have a pasta machine, don’t worry, you can also make hand cut pasta noodles, but they may not be as thin.
What exactly makes a good pasta dough? Since today we are making an egg pasta dough, let’s talk about that. Egg wise you should always choose something organic. If you have a sunny side up egg every morning with your basic supermarket egg brand eggs, you may want to chose something a bit more top notch for homemade pasta. First of all, that will impact the color of the dough. When I make pasta dough with eggs from my grandmother’s chickens, it is incredibly intensely orange/ yellow. Maybe less bright during the winter months, but still looks better than store bought egg yolks. That and nutritional value are the main reasons why choose organic eggs for pasta. The other thing that goes into homemade pasta is flour. You can buy four that says “pasta flour”, “pasta fresca” or “for pasta making” in any supermarket. If not, then choose 00′ wheat flour. For this easy egg pasta dough Spaghetti recipe I chose a flour that I bought in a little Italian restaurant near my home.
It is very handy to own a pasta machine, I got mine as a Christmas present or a belated wedding present from my husbands parents. There are many forms of pasta you can make with this recipe. There are certain shapes and kinds that work better with Semolina flour and water or more egg whites less yolk and vice versa. I have this fantastic video saved because it really does hold all the information on all the wonderful pasta shapes you can make at home. But don’t stop there, Wikipedia says that there are more than 1300 kinds of pasta and they often warry for each sauce they are prepared with and so on. So go on, keep making pasta until you’ve made all of it.
You can use this egg pasta dough in this Trout pasta with courgetti in white wine sauce or make these herb laminated Cacio E Pepe.