Pasta Is An Essential Food Group: Here's how to Make It
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Learning to make homemade pasta was kinda life changing.
First of all, my husband thought he didn't like pasta. Turns out he just doesn't like the flavorless flour and water kind of dry packaged pasta. Now that we only eat homemade pasta, it's one of his favorite foods and we eat it all the time.
Second, homemade pasta is so much better for you than the dried packaged kind you buy at the store. The recipe I use includes a LOT of eggs making it high in protein and essential vitamins.
And, I know I'm mentioning this last the MOST important reason to make homemade pasta:
The trick is to use a process that allows you to easily incorporate homemade pasta into your week. Making homemade pasta doesn't have to be a whole thing.
Pasta night can still be as easy as boiling some water. Here's what you do:
Prepare the dough. I usually do this on Sunday when I'm also doing other food prep stuff for the week. Making the dough will take about 15 minutes, max. Wrap it up and pop it in the fridge.
I day or two later, pull the pasta from the refrigerator and use a pasta machine to roll it out and cut it into noodles. Hang the noodles to dry overnight. Cutting the pasta will take roughly 20 minutes.
When the pasta is dry, package it into ziplock bags or another airtight container and store it in the pantry.
Now that the pasta is prepared and dried, it's ready when you are. 👏
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