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Momma Knows Best Tip of the Week~ Layers of Lasagne…must be fresh!

Okay… I have a confession… my mum makes REALLY, REALLY great lasagne, but this tip actually came from my roomate Mike (@kickthegrind on twitter).

Mike tried my lasagne that I made using the leftovers from my Recipe to Riches Submission (scroll down for that video!).. and he really liked it, but didn’t really know why it was so different from the ones he has had before.

The next time I made lasagne at home, Mike was around to check out what I was doing… when he saw me making the noodles from scratch he was first of all rather shocked that we had a pasta roller in our house… and second of all intrigued.

That first bite was where the Tip Of the Week has come from:  always, and I repeat… ALWAYS use fresh pasta in your lasagne.  It truly only take a few extra moments, your always sure that pasta is cooked and you will thank yourself when you hear the remark “Fresh pasta makes all the difference” (Mike, 2011).

The easiest pasta recipe ever:

  • 2 cups of flour - all purpose, do NOT use self-raising unless you want really fat dumpling like noodles… eek!
  • 3 room temperature eggs
  • 1 tbsp of salt
  • 1/4 c olive oil in a drizzling container

To make:

  1. Blend flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the middle.
  2. add eggs.  Mix all together until the dough comes together.
  3. WASH and DRY your hands.
  4. Come back to the dough with clean hands (very important!)
  5. Drizzle the outside of the dough with a little bit of olive oil… start with around 2 tbsp and work your way up if needed. 
  6. Start rolling on the widest setting on the pasta maker, flouring the dough if it becomes too moist.

For lasagne noodles I usually use the 7/8 setting on my Atlas Pasta Machine.

Happy Rollin’!

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Notes

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