cooking from frozen pasta dough

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ingredients
200g frozen fresh pasta - see here for method
flour

• defrost your dough ball for 3 hours, leaving it alone
• flour it well, plus your pasta machine
• flatten slightly, but don't knead it at all
• work it into your pasta machine on it's highest setting, 1 fold and 2 rolls per setting
  
• travel down the notches, folding and rolling 2 times
  

• here it is at the half way stage
• down to the second to last notch on my Imperia machine
• leave it to rest, then cut your type of chosen pasta, here I am making 12 sheets of lasagne
• cook lasagne sheets in boiling water for no more than 2 minutes in 4-6 sheet batches
  

see also lasagne con salsicce, swiss chard & mushroom lasagne