Mixing the Dough

Using a Food Processor. We have tried all the principal ways of mixing pasta dough, and by far the easiest is the food-processor method. It is incredibly simple: you put the dry ingredients into the processor container, fitted with the steel blade, and run the machine briefly to mix them. Then in go the eggs and any liquid called for, and the processor is run just until the mixture becomes a well-defined ball of kneaded dough circling around atop the blade.

Using an Electric Mixer. Most household models won’t handle a dough as stiff as that for pasta. A heavy-duty machine equipped with a dough hook will mix and knead the dough, however; about 10 minutes’ mixing and kneading with the hook should do the job.