Red Pasta
2017-01-17 08:51:30
A fun twist on pasta night! Red colored pasta is great for Valentine's Day, in pasta salads for 4th of July or team color tailgating, holiday meals, and more!
Ingredients
- 500 g soft-wheat flour
- 5 eggs
- a small amount of water
- 1 tablespoon of concentrated tomato paste
Preparing the dough
- Create a well with the flour, in a bowl; pour the eggs, water and 1 tablespoon of concentrated tomato paste in the middle
- Mix the flour, eggs, water and tomato with a fork and knead the dough
- Keep kneading the dough by hand until it is smooth and sticks together. If the dough is too dry, add some water, if it is too soft add some flour
- Take the dough out of the bowl and place it on lightly floured table. Continue, if necessary, to knead the dough by hand; then, cut it into four pieces.
Preparing the sheet
- Set the Atlas Pasta Machine thickness-adjustment to 0 and pass one of the four pieces of dough through the smooth rollers. If you are using the 3 Facile mixer, fit the Sfoglia 150 accessory with smooth rollers to the mixer
- Lightly dust both sides of the sheet of pasta with flour and fold it in half. Feed the sheet of pasta back through the smooth rollers again: repeat these operations several times until the sheet of pasta has a long and regular shape
- Cut the resulting sheet into two pieces, and sprinkle them lightly with flour on both sides
- Set the thickness-adjustment to 1 and pass the sheet through just once; then, set the thickness-adjustment to 2 and pass the sheet through once more; then, set the thickness-adjustment to 3, and so forth until you achieve the required thickness
- Fit to the Atlas pasta machine or to the Mixer, if you are using the 3 Facile mixer, the selected cutting accessory and pass the sheet through the cutting rollers to achieve the required paste shape
- (No cutting accessories can be assembled on the Ampia pasta machine)
- Lastly, cook the pasta that you have made, or store it once you have left it to dry on our Tacapasta accessory for at least one hour.
Notes
- Alternatives: Instead of using 500 g of soft-wheat flour: 250 g of superfine flour and 250 g of durum wheat flour
- Instead of 5 eggs: 250 ml of water
- Tips Fresh Pasta
- • Do not use cold eggs straight from the fridge
- • Do not add salt in the preparation of the dough
- • The dough is the perfect consistency when it does not stick to your fingers
- • The recommended thickness of the dough sheet for fettuccine is 5 on the thickness-adjustment
- • The recommended thickness of the dough sheet for tagliolini is 7 on the thickness-adjustment The thinnest pasta sheet thickness is achieved by setting the machine on 9 and feeding the sheet of pasta through twice
- • If the rollers are not able to cut the sheet it means that the dough is too soft. Add flour
- • If the dough is too dry the rollers will not be able to take it in. Add water
- • Cook the pasta in a large amount of hot water (4 litres for 1/2 kg of pasta)
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