How to Make Homemade Pasta | Fresh Pasta Recipe (2024)

A simple tutorial and fresh pasta recipe for making homemade pasta in minutes with or without using a pasta maker.

You’ll never want to buy a box of dry pasta again!

A few years ago, I invested in the pasta maker attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer and I have never looked back. If I had only known how easy it was to make fresh pasta, I would have tossed the boxes away years ago!

In fact, we have enjoyed it so much, that I have purchased additional pasta roller attachments as well. The options are endless when you are making homemade pasta.

Let me just say it here, homemade pasta is delicious and so much easier than you might think!

The Best Homemade Pasta Recipes

Pasta is an incredible comfort food, and it’s been one of my favorite foods for my entire life. I’ve shared many pasta recipes with you over the years, so don’t ever listen to me if you’re trying to watch your carb intake.

Topped with savory red sauces like Amatriciana, Vodka Sauce, or Tomato Sauce, or white sauce like Alfredo, Cacio e Pepe, or simply butter with salt and pepper. There is not a pasta dish that I don’t love!

Learn How to Cook Pasta right here, with all my favorite tips and tricks.

A homemade pasta recipe can be so versatile, becoming the perfect base for almost every Italian meal.

Why You’ll Love Making Your Own Homemade Pasta

• Pasta is very family-friendly! Who doesn’t love a spaghetti dinner? Like all good meals, it brings people together.
• My girls love to help me in the kitchen and making pasta is no exception! They love to measure out the ingredients, roll the pasta dough, and could watch the pasta come out the pasta machine for days! Those times are memories I will cherish forever.
• Homemade pasta is also very budget friendly. It costs no more to make your own pasta than it does to buy a box at the store. In my opinion, homemade pasta is the gourmet choice between the two.
• In addition, it is more delicious topped with your favorite sauce and it can be served for any event.
• While tools are handy, you don’t need anything special to make homemade pasta!
• This is a very quick process. I typically spend only 15 minutes making the dough and pressing it through the pasta maker attachment.
• The dough is only a few ingredients and rolling it through the pasta maker can be done in a snap.

Tools or no tools, I know it can be intimidating if you’ve never done this before.

However, even without the shortcut attachments, I think it is worth the extra few minutes to roll out the dough by hand and use a rolling pin and pizza cutter to make the pasta shape you desire.

The ingredients for pasta are really simple and likely are already on hand in your pantry. A basic noodle recipe usually consists of equal parts of white flour and semolina flour, olive oil (or butter), eggs, and water.

How to Make Homemade Pasta

1. Combine – In a stand mixer or mixing bowl, combine flour, eggs and 2 tablespoons water with your paddle attachment. You don’t want the dough to be crumbly or sticky…just doughy! Add an additional tablespoon of water at a time until you reach the desired consistency on speed 4.
2. Knead – With a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook knead for 2 minutes on speed 4, or knead by hand on a lightly floured surface .
3. Make Pasta Sheets – Set the pasta roller attachment on level 1. Make a flat dough ball and feed through. I usually like to do this on speed 4…fast enough, but not too fast. Continue to place the dough through increasing the setting each time – level 2, 3, 4 and finally 5 for fettuccine. Do this with all of your dough. You have to gage your dough…if it is too sticky, add a little flour to your hands and recreate your dough ball. If it appears to be too dry and not smooth enough, add a touch of water to your hands and recreate your dough ball. You’ll get the hang of this in no time! By hand: roll out on a floured surface with a rolling pin.
4. Make Pasta Noodles – Switch to your fettuccine or linguiniattachment unless you’re making pappardelle or ravioli. Feed the dough through, catching the noodles with your other hand and immediately place into your pot of boiling water. By hand: Use a pizza cutter to create noodles.
5. Boil Noodles – In a pot of salted, boiling water, boil noodles 3 minutes. Toss with sauce and serve or follow the instructions below to store.

What Are the Different Types of Pasta?

The shapes of pasta are almost endless! Favorite homemade pasta shapes in my house include angel hair, fettuccine, linguine, Pappardelle, bucatini and of course the classic spaghetti noodle!

If you love family friendly pasta dishes, don’t skip this incredible round-up of Chicken Pasta Recipes!

If you love pasta as much as I do, don’t be intimidated, go ahead and try it! After the first time or two, you’ll have noodles ready almost as quick as it takes to prepare them from a box.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
-Agnes Varda