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ingredients
egg pasta
(serves 4-6)
Just flour, eggs, and salt. Simple, inexpensive, and very very good.
2 cups flour, plus more as needed
1 tsp salt
3 eggs
spinach pasta (serves 6)
One of the classic flavored pastas – beautiful and flavorful.
½ packed cup cooked spinach, minced as finely as humanly possible*
2 ¼ cups flour, plus more as needed
3 eggs
1 tsp salt
* You’ll need one good-sized
bunch of spinach, leaves only. Here's how I cook spinach: Wash well but
don’t dry; place in a pot with ¼ cup of water. Cover and bring to a
boil. Lower heat and steam for a few minutes until the leaves are soft
and wilty. Drain in a wire-mesh strainer, pushing on the spinach with
the back of a spoon to make sure you get as much liquid out as
possible.
making the dough
Traditionally, fresh pasta
dough is made directly on the countertop, the flour mounded in a
soft pile and a well pushed into the center. The eggs are then
broken into the well, and gradually whisked into the flour with a
fork. Frankly, I’m too much of a spaz to keep the kitchen clean
using that method, and prefer to start my dough in a mixing bowl
instead.
1
In a mixing bowl, add the flour and mix in the salt.
2
Make a well in the center of the mound, then gently break in the
eggs Carefully begin beating the eggs with a fork, incorporating
the flour from the sides of the well little by little. (If you’re
making the spinach pasta, gradually add the spinach now as well).
As you slowly work more and more of the liquidy egg into the dry
flour mixture, you’ll begin to form a sort of loose dough.
3
When the fork action seems like it’s no longer doing anything,
it’s time to dive into the mixture with your hands. (Naturally,
these should be clean.) Gather up the bits of dough between your
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