Easy Pasta Dough Recipe

I'm John Cannell and today on preppy kitchen , I'm giving you all my tips and tricks to making the best fresh pasta dough .

So let's get started .

First off , I need two cups or 240 g of flour .

But what kind of flour do you might be wondering ?

So this is all purpose flour .

This is double zero flour and a lot of times you might be hearing oh , double zero flour is the way to go .

I'm wondering why .

And what is double zero flour , double zero flour .

It just has a very fine mill .

So it's powdery soft .

This is great for giving you really loose silky pasta .

By the way , you wanna dump the flour right onto your clean counter .

Grab a measuring cup .

We're going to make a little well in the middle .

Actually a nice size .

Well , to be honest , should have some good walls and look like a pasta volcano .

If you're making pasta dough , you can scale this recipe up almost as much as you want .

Nice .

I know this is finish and hopefully you guys enjoy a recipe .

Come back in the kitchen chef .

We've got a cooking program guys .

But then we wanna show you one of the number one way you can cook spaghetti at home .

A lot of people might have said chef Rica , what you're doing is cook spaghetti .

It's very easy .

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You can , this can help the kids and all to show them how to cook spaghetti at home .

A lot of kids want to learn how to cook things and that's why they go on chef .

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So guys , thank you for so much for requesting it and I'm gonna show you how to cook your spaghetti at your home , in your kitchen and enjoy a recipe .

You can also start scraping in some of the flour just like this and mix , mix mix .

Eventually you're gonna have more and more flour brought into the eggs and it'll become a delicious dough .

Fresh pasta dough is so good .

You can use it to make any kind of noodle .

You can make sheets for your lasagna or homemade ravioli .

I'm actually doing this video by popular request .

Some of you really wanted a video tutorial on how to make pasta dough .

So I'm here for that at a certain point , there's like no way to maintain your well .

So I have a bench scraper here .

This is gonna be really handy for mixing things up , but you can also use your hands .

Now , even though my well is destroyed , the dough is so thick , it's not oozing out .

And at this point , I'm gonna switch to my bench scraper .

So fold it in just like that .

And by the way , this is not gonna look amazing right away .

It's gonna take some time and patience .

Thank you so much , guys , I love this .

So to make spaghetti at home , this is all you're gonna show your kids .

Um I mean a lot of kids like 12 , 13 year old love to cook .

You know what I mean ?

Kids in England , especially in England , love pasta , spaghetti , bolognese and all these things .

If you want kids , them to learn how to cook spaghetti at home .

Simple .

Don't do what I'm gonna do still guys , but I'm just gonna simply show you a nice idea .

Put a pinch of salt inside of the water like this .

Pop a little bit of olive oil in the water like the skies .

So if it's a big kid , fine , if it's a young child , you know , I mean the parents need to elder lovely and nice .

This is another way or you can cook spaghetti .

Make sure the water start to boil .

As you can see , prickling up that I mean the water soon get to start boiling .

So I'm gonna wait till the water start boiling , right .

That's the easiest way .

Nice one .

So my water start to get boiled .

So first of all , I'm gonna get a pack of spaghetti , which is 500 g .

Simple .

Over the water like this , please guys , you don't know what I'm doing still I'm just showing you a nice easy way as you can see it's better for other to do it this way but for kids you cannot do that .

Alright .

Sometimes you can break it up if you do like so you're gonna need that to make it cook for roughly a night but six roughly 12 minutes we're gonna take to cook as I can see looking lovely and nice as I can see .

You'll notice the change in the dough if it looks like at all wet .

Remember , you can add up to a quarter cup of flour a little bit at a time and if it looks really dry , hm , you might have mismeasure your flour .

But as the liquid is absorbed into the flour , it should become nice and silky .

If it just doesn't , you might have added a little bit too much flour .

In that case , I would just add in like a teaspoon of olive oil just to soften it up and need that in .

And yes , all these things have happened to me in the past .

So I'm telling you from personal experience getting closer on my knee .

You can see this looks nice and smooth and let's see how it pulls .

It's stretch here .

It's not really gonna be like a bread dough where it has that wonderful pull because that's a much softer looser dough pasta is like pretty firm .

But you will see it's smooth , it'll bounce and it can stretch a bit .

You know , I mean a lot of people don't know how to cook spaghetti and a lot of people know how to cook spaghetti .

But as you can see , look at that beautiful and nice .

Mm mm And it loose up .

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The most important thing is to make your water start to boil , make sure you have a lot of water inside of the pot .

That's one of the key points .

Have a little bit of vegetable oil or olive oil , what you have at home .

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So I'm gonna give this two more minutes and we're gonna pour it up right .

So now this is finished and hopefully you guys enjoy a recipe all I need to do and you wanna know your pasta .

Cook simple .

When you take it up , you can see very easy .

It look totally different .

Enjoy the recipe and see you next time and this is from chef ricotta and tea .

Bye bye Jason and see you the next time .

And at this point when you get to number 67 and eight , you do not want any wrinkles .

So if your pasta starts wrinkling , don't , don't want to do that .

If this feels unmanageable and super long , it's because it is , it doesn't have to be this long .

You can cut it into lengths of your choosing .

It's however long you want your pasta to be .

I got to number seven .

That's a great thickness for your pasta .

So you can stop there if you want it ultra thin .

Go to the last setting number eight .

Ok .

Just like that .

Your pasta is done .

These large sheets of pasta are perfect for making ravioli .

You can use them for lasagna and several other things .

But if you want to cut them with your machine , slap a fettuccini attachment on and you're just gonna feed it through .

It's a good idea to add some flour to both sides so you can be sure that nothing sticks .

But I have to tell you this is so satisfying to watch .

It's like my favorite part .

Perfect pasta noodles ready to cook .

But if you don't have a pasta roller , grab a rolling pin a little bit of flour for your counter and just get to work .

It's as easy as rolling any dough out .

And actually pasta dough is pretty forgiving because it's a little bit more dense than your normal dough .

This time , I am not going to be doing the envelope method .

What you do want to see is a floured surface on both sides .

So nothing sticks because the pasta has to be able to move as you spread it .

And I'm not cheating per se , but I am using the double zero pasta dough because it is noticeably silkier and looser .

So it really rolls out easily .

So if you don't have a pasta machine , but you want to make some pasta at home , double zero flour is gonna make it a little bit easier .

I'm gonna show you how to cut the pasta , but I'm not cutting on my marble countertops .

They are too delicate .

So a little bit more flour and fold this over .

So flour as you go , you can cut your pasta to any width .

You'd like gonna go for a slightly thicker noodle .

Just give it a cut .

One thing I will say it's important to unfold your pasta , don't leave it all crinkled up because it will dry and kind of like stick together .

If you're making pasta , chances are you're not gonna cook it all right now or you might , but if you don't want to , you can freeze this for later .

That's why we're gonna form a pasta nest .

So we're gonna take some fingers and just twirl it into a nest and now this can get frozen on a sheet of parchment paper and then plopped into an airtight container and kept frozen for about a month .

Then just put it right into your boiling water and cook from frozen .

Just for fun .

I wanted to see if I could make a pen type pasta .

None of us have an extruder at home , but some of you might have a G block .

So one square of pasta right on the block , little rolling pin and you're just going to press and roll it together and it forms a penny like tube of pasta .

This is a little bit large but it's kind of up to you .

Nice and the ridges will help sauce and delicious things .

Hang on to your pasta .

So if you wanted to make a penny style pasta , you can do it with your block .

This is called um I did not take Italian .

So forgive me .

So obviously , this is a labor of love , but it's actually really fun .

So if you wanted a project to keep your kids busy or if you have a rainy day , I would suggest popping this out , making it the most amazing handcrafted meal ever .

When you're ready to cook your pasta , bring a large pot of water to a boil salt .

Well , very important and then cook for 34 , even five minutes depending on the thickness until it is tender and delicious .

My pasta is cooked .

I've tried both and I have to tell you they're both so good .

The double zero flour is ever so slightly silkier .

The main difference is it's so much easier to work with , especially if you're rolling it out by hand .

I hope you get a chance to make this recipe .

And if you like this video , check out my pasta playlist .