Easy Semolina Pasta
Fresh pasta made with semolina flour.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Semolina Flour
- ΒΌ tsp Salt
- 1 Egg
- 2 Egg Yolks
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 2-3 Tbsp Water
Instructions
- On a clean flat surface like your countertop or cutting board, place the semolina flour and salt in a pile. Make a well in the middle using your fingers. You want the pile to look like a volcano with a crater at the top!
- in the middle of the well, put the egg, yolk, olive oil and water. Mix the wet ingredients with a fork until mostly combined then slowly start to incorporate the semolina flour little by little, trying to maintain the well shape.
- Once you have incorporated most of the well into the wet ingredients you can start kneading with your hands. If the dough seems dry, feel free to add another Tbsp of water. The dough should be very firm and difficult to knead. You will get your arm workout in! Knead the dough until it is one smooth, firm ball. Wrap with plastic and let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
- If you have a pasta roller, that would be easiest, but if you don't, a rolling pin will work. To roll out the pasta, separate the dough into four even portions. Using your rolling pin, roll the dough out until it is thin enough to run through your pasta roller. If you don't have a pasta roller you will continue with the same steps but roll out by hand.
- On the widest setting, roll out the pasta then fold it in half on itself and roll it through again. Do this step at least three times. Once you have done at least three folds and your pasta is not crumbly, put your roller on stage 2, roll out the pasta, then stage 4, roll it through, and finally stage 6. for the last stages you do not need to fold the pasta over, just run it through the machine.
- once all your pasta is rolled into sheets you can cut it to whatever shape you would like. If you have a fettuccini or spaghetti cutter, cut the sheets to the length you want your noodles then run them through. I like to use a bench scraper and cut thick hand cut tagliatelle style noodles.
- Bring a pot of salted water to a rolling boil and drop in your fresh pasta. Boil for 3-5 minutes. Fresh pasta cooks much faster than dried pasta. Use with whatever sauce you would like and enjoy!!