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Title: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Red Kell on October 06, 2011, 07:41:52 am
Hi all, I am trying my hand at making pasta for the first time today. I want to use it for lasagna. I suddenly realized I don't know if I can whack it in the lasagna raw, or do I have to cook it first?  :-))  If I need to pre cook..how?  So far out of my comfort zone!! :o
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: fundj&e on October 06, 2011, 07:57:36 am
i do my raw just make sure the sauce is not to thick :)
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: fundj&e on October 06, 2011, 08:00:53 am
Or you can cook it piece by piece  :o
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Meagan on October 06, 2011, 08:03:45 am
Just roll and use as you would for dried pasta :) make it a similar thickness good luck and enjoy ;)
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Red Kell on October 06, 2011, 05:13:06 pm
Wow, pasta is harder to roll by hand then I would have thought (or maybe it's my tiny rolling pin!).  Well it's all done and cooked, will be eating it later on in the week, so still don't know how it's gonna taste. Fingers crossed :) thanks for all the advice again :D
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Meagan on October 07, 2011, 02:19:43 pm
I have a pasta roller so have no idea how hard it is lol. Don't forget to let us know how it tasted.
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Red Kell on October 08, 2011, 02:34:10 pm
Well, the verdict was....YUM!  ;D
I will definitely need to get a pasta roller tho, as it was quite hard to roll by hand, and still a bit too thick. Very tasty tho, so much better than packet pasta :P
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: judydawn on October 09, 2011, 12:48:55 am
So you didn't end up cooking it did you Kell?  I have a pasta maker on it's way courtesy of a friend for my last birthday - the one you linked to fundj.
Title: Re: Home made pasta for lasagna
Post by: Red Kell on October 09, 2011, 02:29:30 pm
Hi JD, no cooking, just made sure the sauce still had a bit of juice still in it, and covered the pasta completly. I think it would be really easy to do once your new pasta maker arrives  ;D