Making Pasta

[Integrale]

I need help.

Easter challenge is to try home made pasta. Want to go for sheets to turn into ravioli, tortellini, and then to go for tagliatelle and spaghetti.

Any suggestions on fail safe recipes, techniques and pasta rollers/machines? Don't want to waste a fortune on a machine if the pasta is crap and it won't work.

Thanks

[thieuster]

Proper flour makes all the difference. We did this for years before we had kids, but couldn't be bothered with cleaning up all the machinery afterwards when the kids were small. So we gave the machine away. Nowadays we don't eat carbohydrates anymore (me)- or at least we try to minimise it as much as possible (my wife).

As said: the correct flour makes the difference. Try to read about this first.
Menno

[Franco]

The machine that most of italy uses is made by Imperia, and that is to roll out the sheets , at different thicknsses and then cut them to size.

You start with a thick sheet, than you pass it again at a lower settings and so on. For filled pasta it should be near transparent.

If you have a mixer like Kitchenaid or kenwood there are attachments that you can use and work well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0noE9GQMeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc_PBy-orXE

There is a good youtube tutorial by Gordon Ramsay or Delia Smith, plus countless in italian.

https://translate.google.com/transla...ml&prev=search

This is to me very comprehensive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-3-8itpjc

For ravioli, the easiest filled pasta, my mother used something like this :Attachment 16106