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Basic Homemade Pasta Recipe
List of Ingredients
Instruction
How to get: yellow pasta
Addition for green pasta
How to make orange pasta
Ingredient for red pasta
Making black pasta
How to speed up the cooking time of homemade pasta

Yes, homemade pasta takes some time. But once you try making homemade pasta in tomato sauce, you will always feel the difference in taste when preparing the same dish with pasta from the store.

Homemade pasta is delicious like every homemade dish.
It’s healthy.

Let’s start with basic yellow pasta.

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Pasta

yellow and orange, red and green

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Ingredients

Ingredients for Basic Pasta

500 g all purpose flour plus 100 g flour for dusting
5 eggs (take eggs out of the fridge in half an hour)

Add other ingredients coordinated to the pasta’s color you would like to get:

Addition for Yellow Pasta

50 g water

Addition for Green Pasta

100 g spinach

Addition for Orange Pasta

150 g carrots

Addition for Red Pasta

1 tsp concentrated tomato paste

Addition for Black Pasta

1 bag squid ink

Instruction

Making Yellow Pasta

1. Mix eggs and flour, add water gradually. Knead the dough. In this step I use a bread maker.

2. Prepare your pasta machine according to its instruction.

3. Roll out the dough to the desired thickness, then cut into the pasta. I’m making fetuccini today.

4. Leave the paste to dry completely. Use a stand if necessary.

Making Green Pasta

Wash spinach, then boil for 15 min. Cool, blend and add to the base dough (there is no water there!).

Making Orange Pasta

Peel carrots, slice them and boil 15-25 min. Mash and add to the basic dough.

How to speed up the cooking time of homemade pasta

There are several points that could help you in making pasta. You can easily speed up the process by:

1. bread maker machine or dough mixer. I usually use my Kenwood bread maker in the role of dough mixer.

2. Pasta maker. My hero is Marcato Atlas 150 and am totally satisfied.

Marcato has many accessories for different types of pasta. My favourite one is fettuccine. And no, I don’t have pastadrive: sometime it’s necessary to be in slowdown.

3. Wood stand with many sticks for drying.

But just to leave for drying on a table is also a good decision although this will increase drying time.

4. Your family enthusiasts. Ask children to help you. Have some fun. Take photos of the process. Making pasta is a lot of playfulness. In my opinion it will be a good memory in a future.