This quick video shows you how to mix and shape your fresh, homemade pasta
Pasta dough recipe
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 eggs
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ teaspoon salt
Handmade Pasta Drirections
Put your flour into a large bowl. Add beaten eggs, olive oil and salt. Mix all the ingredients together and put onto a lightly floured counter top. Knead your pasta dough until it becomes smooth, about 5 minutes. Be careful not to knead in too much flour, it’s better to have a softer dough than a stiff one.
Wrap the pasta dough in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
Cut off a piece of pasta dough (keep the rest of the pasta dough wrapped in plastic until you are ready to use it) and roll it into a rope. Cut off 1/2 inch piece of dough and flatten it out with the heel of you hand. Roll the pasta around the lightly floured handle of a wooden spoon. Slide the pasta off the spoon handle and continue with the rest of your dough.
Let the pasta dry on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper for about 10 minutes.
Boil the pasta in salted water for 3-4 minutes or until its tender. Drain your pasta, add it to your sauce and simmer for 1 minute. Serve and enjoy
I served my pasta with the a braised chicken sauce and it was absolutely delicious. My kids went nuts for it
Braised Chicken Pasta Sauce
| 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1 inch chunks
5 chicken Italian sausage links, casing removed
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped carrots
2 cloves chopped garlic
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 cups chicken stock
1-14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
Salt to taste ½-1 cup of water |
Heat olive oil in a wide, heavy bottomed pan over medium heat. Brown chicken thighs and remove from pan. Break the sausage into chunks with a spoon in the pan and brown sausage. Remove from pan.
Lower the heat. Sauté onions and carrots until they begin to soften, about 4 minutes. Add garlic and sauté for an additional 30 seconds.
Add tomato paste into the pan with the carrots, onion and garlic and stir for 30 seconds. Add chicken thighs and sausage to the pan. Next add the chicken stock, diced tomatoes, oregano and salt to the pan and stir to combine.
Let this simmer over medium-low heat for about an hour adding a ½ -1 cup of water if the sauce gets too thick. |
