Spaghetti is one of the most popular pastas in the world. It's good for a quick, easy, and delicious meal... well quick and easy unless you make it from scratch! This pasta is a bit more time consuming than others. Make sure if you are doing this, you have some time to devote to it. First you will need to make the dough, find the recipe here.
Method One
Equipment:
-Pasta Drying Rack, we use a removable curtain rod in between our archway.
- Pasta Extruder (This one also requires a Kitchen Aid Mixer.)
Ingredients:
-More Flour (if necessary)
Instructions:
1. Pasta Extruders, at least the one we use, work best when you use dryer dough. If while you are kneading your dough it feels sticky, spend time kneading more flour into the sticky parts.
2. Break your dough into smaller pieces and push the dough through the extruder. Make sure you are using the spaghetti shape plate while doing this.
3. As the noodles are being pushed out of the extruder, cut them off at the length you want them. Then you will need to hang them. When you are hanging them, leave a small amount of space in between the noodles, if they are piled on top of each other, they will stick.
4. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, when the water is boiling add salt and then add your spaghetti when they are all finished. Cook for 5 minutes to make your pasta al dente. Taste to make sure it is to your liking and then drain.
5. Combine your spaghetti with your favorite sauce and serve!
Method Two
Equipment:
-Pasta Crank, we have one like this from amazon
Ingredients:
-More Flour (if necessary)
Instructions:
1. Flour the surface you are using and knead the bowl into a ball. Cut the ball into 4-6 smaller pieces of dough. Using a rolling pin, roll out the pasta dough flatter so it can fit through the crank.
2. Flour the front and back of each rolled out pasta dough.
3. Start by creating a sheet of pasta, on the 1 setting. Crank all the small balls of dough through the crank. Then set the crank to the 3 setting, crank all the sheet through. Finally, use the 5 setting and crank the sheet through one more time. (For thinner pasta, keep increasing the crank settings, until the sheet is thin enough.)
4. Flour the front of back of each sheet of dough.
5. Crank each sheet through the spaghetti part of the crank, this is the part with thin groves.
6. Catch the spaghetti as it comes out and twirl them into a flower. Sprinkle flour over each pasta flower so they don't stick together in the boiling water.
7. Bring a pot of water to boil and cook until the pasta is al dente or to your liking.
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