Making Pasta by Machine

Pasta dough can be made in a food processor: combine all ingredients except ½ cup/60 g flour in the work bowl. Process until the dough forms a ball. Continue working for three to five minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic, adding more flour if necessary. Cover the dough and leave it to rest as when making by hand. Very often a manual pasta machine is used for rolling. There are also small-scale extrusion machines that knead the dough, extrude it and cut it into shapes. Extrusion machines make the task of kneading and rolling pasta dough less laborious, but be careful not to overwork it or it will yield pasta that is too soft to give the right al dente bite when cooked.