Fresh Pasta Sheets with Parsley
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tablespoons water
- Cornmeal or semolina, for dusting
- 36 medium flat-leaf parsley leaves
- In a food processor, pulse the flour and salt to blend.
- With the machine on, add the eggs, one at a time, and the water.
- Process until the dough forms a ball.
- Transfer the dough to a work surface and knead into a smooth ball.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle 2 large cookie sheets with cornmeal.
- Lightly flour a work surface.
- Cut the dough into 2 equal pieces.
- Working with one piece at a time, flatten the dough with your hand and run it through a pasta machine: Begin at the thickest setting and work your way through consecutively thinner settings until you reach the thinnest one.
- Spread the sheet on the prepared cookie sheet, brushing away any excess flour.
- With a moistened finger, make 18 dots of water on the left half of each pasta sheet randomly or in rows; they should be 2 inches apart.
- Set a parsley leaf on each dot and press down lightly.
- Fold the other half of the pasta sheet over to cover the parsley leaves.
- Run the folded sheet through the pasta machine on the next-to-thinnest setting.
- You may need to cut the pasta dough in half, partway through rolling out.
- Cut the parsley-flecked sheets into 8-by-6-inch rectangles of dough.
- Repeat with the second piece of dough and the remaining parsley leaves.
flour, kosher salt, eggs, water, cornmeal, flatleaf parsley
Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/fresh-pasta-sheets-with-parsley (may not work)