Plastic-free pasta

If you are plastic-free then you have probably noticed that most store-bought pastas come in cardboard boxes with thin sheet of plastic. Which is great to see what the pasta looks like, but not so great when you are trying to find pasta without plastic packaging. Luckily, pasta isn't difficult to make at home. All you need are eggs, flour, salt, and olive oil, all things that conveniently don't come in plastic packaging as long as you look for it.

Plastic-free pasta

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 3 large eggs

• ½ tsp salt

• 1 ½ tsp olive oil

Directions

1. Make sure you have a clean surface to work on. Measure your flour onto the surface. Make a large well in the flour and add in the eggs, oil, and salt into it.

2. With a fork gently mix the wet ingredients until combined. Then scoop flour from the outside of the well into the middle until there is none left. You should be left with a stiff dough.

3. Knead the dough for 8-10 minutes by pushing the dough away from you with the heel of your palm then folding it over itself.

4. If the dough is too dry and won't stick to itself, add ½ tsp of water. If the dough is too wet and sticky, add a little more flour.

5. Cover the dough and let it sit for 30-45 minutes.

6. Divide the dough into four pieces. Gently flatten one into a disk. Run the dough through a pasta maker three times on level 1. Fold to form a rectangle. Run the dough through the pasta roller three times on levels 2 and 3, and one time each on levels 4, 5, and 6. Then sprinkle with flour.

7. Repeat with the remaining pieces of dough.

8. Run the pasta sheets through the pasta cutter. Cook the pasta in a pot of salted boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes. Or keep refrigerated for 3-5 days or frozen until ready to use.