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Ingredients
- 2cups all-purpose flour, or more as needed
- 1teaspoon kosher salt
- 3large eggs
- 2large egg yolks
- 2tablespoons olive oil
Preparation
- Step 1
Combine flour and salt in a large bowl, making a well in the middle. In a small bowl, beat together the eggs, egg yolks and olive oil, then pour into the well in the flour. Mix with the fork until the flour begins to clump together. When the mixture becomes too hard to stir with a fork, use your hands. Knead dough in the bowl or on a lightly floured board until it is quite stiff and no longer sticky. Sprinkle with a little flour. Cover with plastic or a cloth, and let it rest for about 30 minutes.
- Step 2
Lightly sprinkle a wooden board with flour. Cut off one-third of the dough; keep the rest covered while you work. Roll the dough lightly in flour, then flatten it into a rectangle about the width of your hand. Roll a rolling pin over the dough up and down, left and right. Flip the dough over about every two dozen rolls. If the dough sticks, dust with more flour. Repeat until the pasta is roughly 24 inches in length and 8 inches wide. Dust with flour and set aside; repeat with remaining dough.
- Step 3
To form jackets for ravioli, cut each sheet of dough into rectangles about 24 inches long and 4 inches wide, trimming edges neatly.
Private Notes
Comments
For ravioli it should always be very thin, to where you can see your hand pretty clearly through the pasta sheet. No lower than the 6 setting but if you're able to get to 7 or 8 without the pasta sheets breaking, that's good too. Only because you are going to be doubling it up so the edges of the ravioli end up being thick due to the double layer
How thin should this pasta be if we dispense with the rolling pin method and use a pasta machine. Or, is the rolling absolutely critical?
This is a GREAT recipe. I had my doubts because it seemed a little bit too soft or too pliable I guess? It rolled out perfectly though - I got it to a 7 with no issues on the pasta roller. I did need ever so slightly more than 2 cups of flour in the initial dough and it was still slightly sticky before resting. This cooked up beautifully - it was thin, delicate, delicious. I made butternut squash ravioli (roasted squash filling with mascarpone, roasted garlic, shallots & oven toasted sage).
Little confused at the review rating for this dough. After mixing and brief kneeding, it is extremely tough. My stand mixer-dough roller struggled to flatten it out, let alone trying manually.
I made this recipe and triple checked the measurements but it was too sticky to work with and nether me or my daughter could figure it out.
If you are using a Kitchen Aid, this dough is a little too wet for pasta attachment but if you add more flour, it's great
