Kitchen-aid Pasta Recipes

Kitchen-aid Pasta Roller

After you purchase your own pasta machine, I recommend you follow the Kitchen-aid pasta recipe. It is the simplest recipe and it has better results than online recipes. The Kitchen-aid recipes provide you with instructions to make the smoothest, tastiest, most malleable pasta. In both my own experience and my grandparent’s experience, we have had undesirable results from recipes on other websites. Recipes that call for more than 4 eggs and less than 3 cups of flour will be too sticky, causing damage to the Kitchen-aid, and creating difficulty in the pasta making process. Recipes with more than 2 1/2 cups of flour and less than 3 eggs will be too dry, preventing the ingredients from mixing into a smooth ball of dough. As for the pasta flour to use, I recommend using Granoro Semolina flour. Granoro Semolina is a better pasta flour than Red Mill or other flours, because it the softest flour, which helps create the softest pasta.

Kitchen-aid created their pasta machine, and know what recipes produce the best pasta. The kitchen-aid recipe pamphlet comes with your pasta maker order. If you follow these instructions, your new pasta making experience will be easy.

There are two different pasta attachments from kitchen-aid that produce the best pasta. In a few posts I will blog about both attachments, how to use them, and which one I prefer.

The Discovery of Homemade Pasta

I come from an Italian family. I was a young teen when I had my first taste of homemade pasta. I was visiting my grandparents in late August when they told my parents and me about their recent discovery, the Kitchen-aid pasta maker. They had gone to a cooking class where they were introduced to the pasta roller attachment and the concept of making fresh pasta.

My grandparents are very adventurous; they love to travel and are always changing. They produce their own vegetables in their garden and prefer to make homemade meals. They were curious and excited to use their first pasta maker. When they had prepared their first homemade pasta dish for me, fettuccine in red sauce, I couldn’t believe I was eating pasta. My expectations of pasta had permanently changed. The texture of the homemade pasta was softer than boxed, not soggy, but easier to chew and more enjoyable. The taste was also distinctly different. When you eat a freshly picked apple compared to a store brand apple, you can taste that difference in freshness. It is the same taste of freshness with homemade pasta. Boxed pasta is drier and does not have that fresh homemade taste.

I was determined to make my own homemade pasta. After we had bought our kitchen-aid attachment we made pasta all the time. We started off with the basic fettuccine, then we started to make different types of pastas such as macoroni, spaghetti, and fusilli. There were so may different meals we could make with the Kitchen-aid and just 4 ingredients. We made macaroni and cheese, puttanesca, penne alla vodka and more.  Our expectations of pasta has changed forever, and so has mealtime. My family and I look forward to making pasta together, when we can be creative, spend time together and eat healthy.