Basic pasta for a pasta maker

Basic pasta for a pasta maker

Got a pasta maker? Use our recipe to make the perfect pasta.

Basic pasta for a pasta maker

  • Serves icon Serves 4
  • Time icon Takes 20 minutes to make, plus drying

Got a pasta maker? Use our recipe to make the perfect pasta.

Ingredients

  • 375g ‘00’ flour or strong bread flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • ½ tsp sunflower or olive oil
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Method

  1. Place the ‘00’ flour and salt in the Kenwood Bowl. Add the eggs and sunflower or olive oil and, using the K Beater, mix on minimum speed or speed 1 for 1-2 minutes, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs but is slightly moist.
  2. Fit the Pasta Maker with the preferred screen: Spaghetti, Tagliatelle, Macaroni, Lasagne or Rigatoni and, with the machine running on speed 2–3, drop small amounts of pasta dough mix into the feed tube. Leave to clear. Do not over-fill.
  3. Cut the pasta at preferred lengths (short for macaroni and rigatoni; long for spaghetti and tagliatelle.) Leave to dry for 30 minutes or allow to dry completely, before cooking.

Variations 

  • Wholemeal pasta: replace the plain flour with wholemeal flour.
  • Pasta rossa: replace 1 egg with 75g tomato purée. pasta verde: replace 1 egg with 150g frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry to remove all excess moisture. Adjust the flour quantity if necessary.
  • Herb pasta: Add 60ml (4 tablespoons) finely chopped mixed fresh herbs to the dry ingredients in step 1.

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  1. This recipe is made using the Kenwood Chef and its K Beater and Pasta Maker attachments.

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