Simple Pasta Dough
Servings 6
Prep time
30 minsInactive time
20 minsTotal time
50 minsAn authentic Italian pasta dough recipe for making homemade lasagne sheets or your favourite pasta shapes.
Ingredients
Method
- Using a food processor, add all ingredients and pulse until combined.
- Turn dough out onto a bench and form into a log. Enclose dough in plastic wrap and leave to rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- Once rested, cut dough in 4 pieces and roll each through a pasta machine 10 times on the widest setting, folding the pasta back on itself twice between each pass. Then roll sheets through the machine again, reducing the setting each time, up to the second-to-last setting.
- Cut sheets in lengths the same size as the dish you will cook the lasagne in. Blanch sheets in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, then remove, pat dry and set aside for cooking.
Simon says ...
00 flour—also known as doppio zero (double zero)—is a super-fine white flour from Italy, and considered the gold standard for making pasta and pizza bases.
Use the dough to make fresh lasagne sheets for my Lasagne with Cheat’s Béchamel recipe for an authentic, truly Italian favourite for all occasions.
Or use it for making other fresh pasta, simply cut to your favourite style (ravioli, fettuccine etc).