How to Cook Penne Pasta Noodles

Instructions

• 1

  Take a wood cutting board and make a mound of the flour on it. Mix four eggs and one egg yolk and add olive oil to it as well. Use a fork to stir the mixture and gradually add the flour on top of it while keep on beating the eggs.
• 2

  Mix the flour well with the rest of the mixture and use palms of both hands to knead the dough. Do not stop until dough has a balanced texture and make sure that it is elastic.
• 3

  Now, remove the dough from the cutting board and add flour to it. Use your hands once again to knead the dough for about 5 to 6 minutes. Take a plastic bag and place dough in it. Let it stay there for about half an hour at room temperature.
• 4

  In order to roll dough out, use a rolling pin and put it out on a floured cutting board. Make sure that dough is 1/2 inch thick and try to shape it like a square of rectangle for your ease. Turn your attentions towards eggs once more and use a fork to beat egg and don’t stop until it is smooth. Use a knife to chop dough into 1 1/2 inch square pieces.
• 5

  Now, while you brush beaten eggs onto one corner, try holding one the dough square at the same time. On the opposite corner of the dough square, take a clean pencil and roll the dough diagonally around the very same pencil. Take one pasta at a time and push it down to seal the shape. After you have pushed it all the way down, carefully slide the pasta off the pencil.
• 6

  Now take the next piece of the dough and repeat the above mentioned step once more. Repeat it with the remaining dough pieces as well.