Homemade Semolina Pasta - My Base Recipe

Total Time: 48 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups semolina flour
• 2 cups unbleached flour
• 6 whole eggs
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 mix flours and salt in a bowl.
• 2 dump mixture on a smooth surface.
• 3 create a large well in the middle of the flour. essentially, they'll be a huge ring of flour -- like a large doughnut.
• 4 crack eggs into center of well and add olive oil.
• 5 using a fork, break up the eggs and mix the eggs together. slowly incorporate the flour while mixing -- a little bit at a time. this will take a little time to do. the slower the better as it ensures a good homogeneous mixture.
• 6 once all the flour is incorporated, place the dough in the mixer with the dough hook.
• 7 kneed using the dough hook for 5 minutes or so until the dough "springs" back slightly when you push on it and looks smooth and elastic.
• 8 remove from dough hook. if it is still a bit sticky, add some more flour and kneed in manually or with the mixer.
• 9 form the dough in a mound and wrap with plastic wrap.
• 10 let it rest for 30 minutes.
• 11 cut the dough in half before using the pasta maker.
• 12 kneed the dough by folding in thirds and running it through your pasta maker at its thickest setting three times.
• 13 dust with flour if it starts to stick.
• 14 you can now run it through the pasta maker, once on each thickness until you reach your desired thickness.
• 15 cut in half if the pieces get too long.
• 16 boil in salted water 2-3 minutes in salted water. the time will vary depending on the thickness of your pasta.