Recipe for homemade pasta with saffron
Homemade pasta tastes fantastic and is not as difficult to make as you might think.
Here we have a detailed guide on how to make your own pasta without using a pasta machine or a mixer.
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Ingredients
- 2 pcs. Egg Don't compromise on the quality of eggs for pasta.
- 200 gram Tipo 00 Flour Calculate a little extra flour for rolling out
- 0.5 gram Saffron Can easily be omitted
- Salt For the boiling water
Instructions
- I experimented with incorporating saffron into the pasta in this recipe. Next time, I think I will soak my saffron and use the saffron water for the dough.
- Start by pouring the flour out on the kitchen counter and create a well in the middle of it.
- Crack your eggs into the middle of the flour and sprinkle saffron over them.
- Carefully whisk the eggs with a fork. Push some of the flour into them with one hand while whisking eggs and flour together with the other hand.
- When it is no longer possible to whisk more flour into the eggs with the fork, use your hands to gather the dough together.
- Once the dough is gathered, knead it thoroughly with your hands. Use the heel of your hand to fold the dough over itself until the dough has a smooth surface when stretched out. This can take some time, but it's well worth the effort.
- Allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes wrapped in a bag or cling film. I usually let it sit on the kitchen counter with a shower cap placed around the dough.
- Once the dough has rested, roll it out on a floured surface. Use plenty of flour - much more than you might expect.
- Roll the dough as thin as possible with a rolling pin.
- When the dough cannot be rolled thinner, try rolling it onto your floured rolling pin. Roll your pin a few times over the counter while pressing lightly on the rolling pin.
- Unroll the dough from the rolling pin and then give it another roll if you want the dough even thinner.
- Sprinkle the dough generously with flour and fold it together.
- Then it becomes super easy to cut thin pasta strips along the fold.
- If the pasta is not to be used immediately, hang it to dry. Either on a pasta drying rack or on a cooling rack.
- Bring a pot of water with salt to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add the pasta.
- Cook the pasta for 4 minutes and drain it.
- The pasta is ready to serve.
