Pasta Sfoglia all’Uovo

Name: Pasta Sfoglia all’Uovo (Sheets of Egg Pasta for Noodles)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: flour; spaghetti; eggs; flour; maccheroni; eggs; egg pasta; egg yolk; egg white; eggs; noodles; egg; egg yolks; vegetable oil; corn oil; unbleached flour

Sheets of Egg Pasta for Noodles

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Recipes from Paradise

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

About

Here is the basic recipe for egg pasta, an essential in Italian cooking. I have adapted this recipe from the one that appears in my book The Authentic Pasta Book (1985). You may use this sfoglia to make lasagne, corzetti, ravioli, tagliatelle, and the thinner tagliarini, or just about any egg noodle.

Method

To make good sfoglia, you need a spacious work surface, a rolling pin (preferably a simple wood cylinder without handles about 22 inches/56 cm long), a good knife, and a pasta-cutting wheel. Many pe