Fresh Pasta Rectangles
While this recipe makes more pasta that the four rectangles you'll need for the Pumpkin Cannelloni with Clams and Sage Brown Butter , Jody Adams recommends rolling out all of the pasta and cutting the extra into tagliatelle, which, when tossed with butter and cheese, makes a wonderful dinner later in the week. For rolling and cutting, she likes to use the pasta-maker attachment for the KitchenAid standing mixer.
Recipe information
Yield
Makes about 1/2 lb pasta
Ingredients
Special Equipment
Preparation
Make dough:
Step 1
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.
Roll out dough:
Step 2
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.
Step 3
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.
Step 4
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.
