Sometimes it is important to go back to basics and learn how to make certain staples. The staple that I am going to focus on here is pasta. I personally eat a lot of pasta due to its convenience; most dried pasta cooks in less than 10 minutes, which means often you can have your meal ready in 15 minutes. So why make fresh pasta? Well, firstly it tastes a lot nicer and secondly it can be a fun thing to make with friends.
Pasta is incredibly simple to make: all you need is eggs and ‘00’ flour, bring together as a dough, knead and roll out finely and you will have made pasta. All other ingredients that you add to the dough just act as flavouring for the pasta.
The key to making pasta is getting the texture of the dough right; what you are looking for is a firm but elastic dough. If the dough is too malleable and soft it will break up when it comes to rolling and you may find that the dough sticks together afterwards. If this happens, then add some more flour to the dough and restart the rolling process.
