Pasta Dough

[TAZALISCIOUS]

My mom hasn't been doing so well lately so I have taken over all of her household chores, including cooking for her. This past week-end I made a home made dough for pasta. It is so very easy to make both to prepare and cook so it gave me many choices. I ended up making cavatelli. I only thought of it after that I could have made ravioli or tortelloni but I hadn't taken out any meat. Does any one here make their own dough for pasta and if so what is your favorite kind ti make?

[moonangel]

i dont have a good recipe for pasta that will turn out right for me. i guess i just dont make it right my mom gave me a recipe but it never turns out the way hers does.

[bretay]

i would love to find a good easy dough to make.the only thing like that i make is homemade biscuits and pancakes.i want a good pastry dough.

[mark81265]

I would love your receipe! I have always wanted to make my own!

[TAZALISCIOUS]

There are quite a few recipes out there. I know that there are a lot of good ones if you google the type of Pasta you want to make. You can find the best ones through food network sites. The easiest is just water, flour and a dash of salt. 4 cups of all purpose flour to about 1 1/2 cups of room temp water. Make a pile of flour with a hole in the middle, add some water and mix. Repeat the pile, hole with more water and mix until the dough forms a ball. If it's too sticky sprinkle some flour. Once good texture achieved make a ball and leave it to rest about 30 min under a cloth. Then cut it in half to make it easier to work with. Roll it out and shape your pasta how you would like. You can make long fettucine, linguini, capellini, or short ravioli, cavatelli with this dough. Pasta dough is one of the most simplest of the doughs to make, with the least amount of ingredients. Good luck