I just love pasta. My friends and family like to joke that I think it’s a food group. Well, isn’t it? And, of course, fresh is much better than the regular kind. It can seem a bit daunting, but with the pasta attachment for your mixer and a few basic Kitchenaid pasta recipes, it’s pretty simple.
Once you’ve tried it, you may never want to eat the dried stuff again. A standard recipe only requires four ingredients, and they’re ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen: flour, eggs, oil, and salt.
My great-grandmother used to make noodles by hand, rolling them out, cutting them, and waiting for them to dry. Lots of hard work, and it took forever. With the Kitchenaid pasta attachment, you don’t have to hurt yourself rolling out all that dough. Great-grandma would have loved it.
Kitchenaid Pasta Recipes Demonstation
Not sure exactly how this works? Here’s a video that will show you exactly how it’s done.
Easy Kitchenaid Pasta Recipes
You’ll need both the standard (paddle-shaped) beater and the dough hook to make these (they both come with your mixer).
Semolina – Use this easy recipe for linguini, fettucini, or ravioli dough.
Fresh Pasta Dough – Make your own pasta with just four ingredients: flour, oil, eggs, and salt. There are also directions for variations such as spinach pasta, tomato pasta, and squid ink pasta.
Spaghetti Recipe – Good for about 1.5 pounds of spaghetti. There’s an excellent tip here: if you don’t have a pasta rack to dry your noodles, use plastic hangers instead (just make sure to flour them first so the noodles don’t stick).
Homemade Noodles – This recipe is taken from Kitchenaid, but it’s worth visiting as the page has step-by-step photos, as well as extra tips for using the pasta attachment.
Thousand Layer Lasagne – My cousin came back from school in Italy with a recipe very much like this one. Delicious!!
Don’t Overcook Your Pasta
Homemade, fresh pasta cooks much faster than the dried version. It should be ready in a minute or two. Don’t overdo it!