Best Homemade Pasta Dough Recipe

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A delicate, delicious homemade pasta that is easy to make and quicker than you might think

This homemade pasta dough recipe will help you create tender, homemade pasta — and it’s so easy! Step by step instructions and images help you all the way through. Once you’ve made a batch try this easy grilled chicken and fettuccine in creamy basil sauce!

For this recipe you’ll need: all-purpose flour, salt, eggs, olive oil

I was going to post my Chicken Alfredo Lasagna recipe today and then I remembered that I wanted to post this homemade pasta dough recipe first so that you could really make a lasagna that would make your entire family (including random inlaws) drool.

Don’t get me wrong – store bought pasta is fine. Better when it is organic but …all in all… it does the job. It just doesn’t do the job as well as this homemade kind… which isn’t hard to make. It’s sort of like saying that a pair of sneakers will work fine with that sexy little black dress… but if possible a pair of Betsy’s would be so much better.

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon good olive oil
• About 4 to 5 tablespoons of water give or take

Instructions

1. Blend the flour and salt together.
2. Add the eggs, oil and half of the water.
3. Mix slowly, adding more water as needed until the dough can be formed into a ball that holds together. don't let it get too wet or it will be hard to work with.
4. Knead for about three minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic.
5. Cover with a clean tea towel and allow to rest for thirty minutes.
6. Divide the dough into 4 parts.
7. Roll each part out on a lightly floured board so that it will fit through the #1 setting on your pasta maker.
8. If you are rolling by hand just roll each piece of dough out until it is as thin as you can get it and cut into the desired sizes.
9. Rub a light coating of flour on the dough.
10. Put the dough through the #1 setting about 5 times or more.
11. Change to a #2 setting and put the dough through that setting two or three times.
12. Change to a #3 setting and put the dough through that setting.
13. Continue to make the dough thinner until it is as thin as you want it.
14. Cut into desired shapes and allow to rest for a few minutes more.
15. Place in salted, rapidly boiling water and cook until done - 2 or 3 minutes.
16. Recipe Notes
17. You can use whole wheat flour, semolina flour, or a combination if you like.
18. You can substitute vegetable puree for the water.
19. I'd suggest following the recipe exactly before trying any variations.

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