Homemade egg tagliatelle is one of my favorite pastas to make. If you haven’t made fresh pasta before, this is one of the first ones I recommend people start with. It is simple to make and taste delicious!
For the dough, you can use our Simple Egg Pasta or Semolina and Egg dough. !
For portioning, I do 100g of flour for 2 people for a starter and 100g per person for a main course.
Fresh Tagliatelle
Description
Tender, light and delicious!
Ingredients
Instructions
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Prepare the pasta dough
Add flour to a bowl or make a make a well in the flour on the counter. Add the eggs and mix together to form a shaggy dough.
See our pasta dough recipe link in description for more details on making the dough. -
Knead the dough
Continue to knead the dough for 5-10 minutes or until elastic and smooth.
Wrap and set in the fridge for 30 minutes
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Roll out the dough
Remove the dough from the fridge. Cut a section of the dough and keep the other wrapped to avoid it from drying out. Lightly dust the dough and your surface area with flour. Starting with the thickest setting of your pasta press, run the dough through. Move down 1 size every 2 times of passing the dough. If it starts to get too long, cut the dough in half and keep pressing until you get to the 2nd to lowest setting.
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Shape the tagliatelle
Cut the pasta sheet into rectangles around 8" or however long you would like your pasta. Dust with flour and gently roll up lenghway. Cut into 6mm widths. Scoop up the tagliatelle with your fingers and let fall down. This will open and seperate the pasta. Gently flour and set in a nest.
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Cook the tagliatelle
Fresh pasta cooks very quickly. Drop into a bot of well salted boiling water for around 60-90 seconds.
Toss into your sauce of choice.
Sorry if this a repeat question as I don’t think my question went through the first time. I can’t wait to try to make this pasta. I have a KitchenAid mixer with pasta attachments. The wides first setting 8 and the thinest 1. Could you tell me how thin I should make this dough?
Thank you !
Great question! I would suggest going down to a 3 to start. If that’s too thick for your liking a 2 could be used. I think a 1 would be too thin.
On drying I do like to let it dry a bit first. You can let dry as little as 10 min or overnight. Using a pasta drying rack is great for a longer drying and will help it not stick.