Using a Pasta Machine

If you make pasta often it is well worth getting a pasta rolling machine. Hand-operated machines, as illustrated below, are reasonably priced, easily available and quite robust. There is a little technique involved – it is simply a matter of holding one end of the pasta dough while turning the handle.

Make the dough (steps 1-3 opposite). Have a clean tea towel spread out at the ready and feed the dough through the rollers in pieces the size of a large egg, keeping the remaining dough under a tea towel or wrapped in a polythene bag or foil to stop it drying out.