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Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour plus additional
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Semolina flour for dusting
- Special equipment: a pasta machine or a KitchenAid standing mixer fitted with pasta-maker attachment
Method
- Blend all-purpose flour and eggs in a food processor until mixture just begins to form a ball.
- (Dough should come together but still be somewhat sticky.)
- If dough is too loose, add additional flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until dough comes together.
- Transfer to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let stand at room temperature 20 minutes.
- Set smooth rollers of pasta machine at widest setting.
- Cut dough into 3 pieces and keep 2 pieces and keep 2 pieces wrapped in plastic wrap.
- Flatten unwrapped piece of dough into a rectangle and dust with all-purpose flour, then feed through rollers.
- Fold rectangle in half and feed through rollers 4 more times, folding in half each time and dusting with flour as necessary to prevent sticking.
- Turn dial to next (narrower) setting and feed dough through without folding.
- Continue to feed dough through without folding, making space between rollers narrower each time, until second-to-last setting is used.
- Cut sheet into 4 (6- by 4-inch) rectangles.
- Transfer to a wax-paper-lined baking sheet dusted with semolina flour and cover with plastic wrap.
- Roll out and cut remaining dough into noodles for another use.
