Meading the Dough for Making a Homemade Pasta

Meading the Dough for Making a Homemade Pasta
Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and we started to show you the basic preparation for the homemade pasta and I'm back here to show you what the finished product should look like. We've got a nice pasta dough ball, if you will here and there's just a tiny bit of tackiness to it which is okay. It was a little bit more tackier early on throughout the 5 minute kneading process and all I did was sprinkle some semolina on the cutting board and pick that up with a dough ball. It just massaged into itself. So it's got a nice tender feel to it. Again, as dough should do, you punch into it and it starts to come back. I'll show that to you one more time so that you will know exactly what we are talking about. So I punch it and it starts to rise and come back on. So that's what we are after. Now that it is done and needed the way that we want and also as a side note, we did not use a knife or anything to cut this. You never want to do that. You want to keep it all together and just folding it. Never try to separate it with a knife or try to tear it because it is just going to lead to a whole bunch of inconsistencies in the pasta machine and in the recipe as well. I am just going to knead it a little bit more and it's obviously hard to illustrate the feel of this on video but you'll get the hang of it. As long as you can match this color and again, it's popping back out, so it's good. So I've just got some plastic wrap here, so we are going to wrap this guy up and push the air out of there. There's our finished pasta product. Now while we get everything else ready, I eat the sauce, the salads all other kinds of things, I'm just going to let this guy rest and chill literally inside the refrigerator for 10 or 15 minutes and actually the cool temperature will allow it to firm it up a little bit which will go through the pasta machine in a much uniformed fashion after it happens. So we are going to go ahead and throw them in the refrigerator and we will come back and show you how to make pasta.