Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumI'm using a Kitchenaide pasta roller for fresh pasta.
The instructions say to roll out to the thinnest sheet. I'm using it for fettuccine. Should I stop rolling out dough at number 5 or 6 for slightly thicker pasta? I'll be eating it with pesto sauce.
drray23
(7,962 posts)It's hard to do. The dough usually tears up.
Slightly ticker pasta is good for sauce anyway.
Ilsa
(62,231 posts)Have you tried dusting more flour on your pasta sheets as you roll out? Or perhaps turn up the speed a notch? I use to get stretches and ridges until I started dusting with more four and turning up the mixer another notch.
I too like mine this way....
Folks can just experiment...one should have enough pasta dough to try several different thicknesses and select your favorite..
Fichefinder
(235 posts)Ilsa
(62,231 posts)that I don't use my bread machine for. I've made focacci, which is alot like flat bread pizza.
Is that what you're referring to?
Fichefinder
(235 posts)Seems like you could make some flatbread shaped crusts
Ilsa
(62,231 posts)Flatbread pizza, IIRC, contains some yeast or other leavening agent such as a little baking powder. Occasionally I see a recipe incorporating a flatbread that's almost like a thick cracker (no chewiness to the bread).