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Making whole wheat pasta dough
Making homemade whole wheat pasta is a fairly straightforward process, but you’ll need some patience the first time you make it. The first step is the easiest: add all the ingredients to a stand mixer and knead for about 5 minutes until a ball forms. Once you get good at making pasta, it’s surprisingly quick and can be made with items you probably have on hand. So next time you want to eat some pasta, give yourself a little extra time and try making it from scratch. Keep reading for our homemade whole wheat pasta recipe! At this stage, the dough should stick together and shouldn’t be too wet. Then, knead the dough briefly before letting it rest on your counter for 30 minutes. Remember that we’re not making bread, so the pasta dough doesn’t require a lot of kneading!).
Tips for forming the noodles
Once the pasta has rested, it’s time to begin the most important part of the pasta making process: the rolling of the dough. Although you can roll out the dough using a rolling pin, a pasta machine makes everything much easier. We used the pasta maker attachment for our KitchenAid mixer. Start running the dough through the rollers at their widest setting. You’ll need to continually fold the dough in half and keep running it through the machine to gradually flatten it out. As you continue rolling the dough, you’ll want to adjust the pasta machine so the dough is slowly rolled out thinner and thinner. Once the dough is at the desired thickness, cut the dough into sections (the length of each section will determine how long each noodle is). Run each section through the die-cut side of the pasta machine, and bask in the glory of your homemade whole wheat pasta! When you’re ready to taste this homemade whole wheat pasta recipe, simply drop the pasta into boiling water for 2 minutes, top with your preferred sauce, and tuck in.
Ways to serve whole wheat pasta
Once you’ve made this delicious whole wheat pasta recipe, there are so many fun pasta recipes and sauces to serve with it. Try is with:
Red sauce, like this Marinara Sauce, Tomato Cream Sauce or Pomodoro Sauce White sauce, like this Cream Sauce or Vegan Alfredo Sauce Pesto, like Basil Pesto Wine sauce, like this White Wine Sauce Puttanesca sauce, like this Pasta Puttanesca Recipe
More vegetarian pasta recipes
Outside of this homemade whole wheat pasta recipe, here are some of our favorite vegetarian pasta recipes:
Pasta Pomodoro Creamy Gemelli Pasta or Creamy Spinach Pasta Lemon Ricotta Pasta Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Broccoli Mac and Cheese or Cottage Cheese Mac and Cheese Mushroom Pasta with Parmesan Easy Stuffed Shells Easy Manicotti
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