Homemade Lasagna Noodles

5 from 8 votes

Homemade lasagna noodles are made with flour, eggs, and salt. Pasta dough is then run through a pasta machine making tender thin sheets.

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Weigh out the flour using a kitchen scale. Add the flour to a working area. Make a well in the middle. Crack the whole eggs into the well. Using a fork, break up the eggs and slowly mix in flour.
Continue to add flour to the eggs gradually. Once the dough starts to form, begin kneading it with your hands. Continue kneading the dough for about 10 minutes until the dough is pillowy and soft. The dough should not be sticky. If the dough is dry, wet your hands with water and continue kneading the dough.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest for about 30 minutes. Cut the dough into six equal sections.
Roll the pasta dough through the widest setting in the pasta machine. Do this 4 or 5 times, folding the dough over.
Adjust the setting from 0 to 1 on the pasta machine. Roll the dough through the setting. Then adjust the setting to 2. Go all the way up to 5 on the pasta machine. This will result in a very thin and long lasagna noodle. Dust the lasagna sheet with flour and place it on a flat surface.
Cut the lasagna noodle to the length of the lasagna baking dish.
Boil lasagna noodles in a large stovetop pot with salted water. Place two or three sheets at a time into the boiling water. Cook the lasagna sheet for about one to two minutes. Remove the sheets from the boiling water. Set them aside to dry. Once all of the pasta sheets are pre-boiled, assemble the lasagna. Make sure to layer the pasta sauce on top and bottom of the lasagna noodles to keep the noodles tender.

Use 00 flour preferably. Substitute equal weight of all-purpose flour. Weigh out the flour using a kitchen scale.
Depending on the size of your lasagna dish, you might have some extra pasta sheets left over. Freeze the pasta sheets in a single layer, then add them to an airtight container once they are frozen. When ready to use, just drop the frozen lasagna sheets into boiling water.
Storage: Since this pasta dough contains egg, I do not recommend drying it on a drying rack. Instead, place the sheets on a flat tray in a single layer and freeze. Once the sheets freeze, place them into a freezer-friendly container. When ready to use, place the frozen pasta sheets directly in boiling water.