Pasta has long been a leader among other dishes. She gained her popularity with the ease of preparation. The most common pasta can be found in Italian and Asian cuisine. In Russia, pasta is often called pasta - they can be bought at any store, but if you want to experiment in the kitchen, pasta can be easily prepared from simple ingredients.
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Flour for pasta
For classic Italian pasta you need to choose hard flour, and cook the dough on the water. When using soft varieties of wheat, you need to add 1 egg per 100 grams of flour. To make the dough elastic and homogeneous, the flour must be sieved, this not only guarantees the absence of foreign impurities, but also saturates it with oxygen.
Pasta dough
To get the perfect pasta, knead the dough for at least 15 minutes. The finished dough must definitely "rest" in a cool place for 30 minutes.
How to roll out the dough
Roll out the dough on a powdery surface. If the dough needs to be divided into several parts, the unused parts should be covered with a damp towel so that they do not dry out. You need to roll out the dough from yourself, turning the constantly resulting layer. The ideal paste thickness for pasta is a maximum of 2 millimeters.
How to chop pasta
Ideally, the dough should be cut with a special machine - noodle cutter. If this unit is not in the kitchen, you can use a sharp knife with a thin blade or a wheel for cutting pasta. Finished strips should dry, so you do not need to close them.