Beth Hensperger

Egg Pasta

Preparation info
  • Makes 1½ pounds pasta,

    7 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Egg pasta is excellent with all sorts of fresh or cooked sauces—like ragù, marinara, bolognese, pesto, white clam sauce, cream sauces—and pasta frittatas, baked pastas, with sautéed mushrooms and peas, timbales, cannelloni, manicotti, and in soups.

Ingredients

1½- or 2-Pound-Loaf Machines

  • 4 large eggs, lightly beaten, at room temperature
  • 2 tablespoons warm water
  • 1

Method

  1. Place all the ingredients in the bread pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Program for the Dough or the Pasta Dough cycle; press Start. Set a kitchen timer for 7 minutes. When the timer rings, check the dough ball that has collected on the blade. It should be firm but pliable. If it is too dry, add a couple drops of water while the machine is k