Pasta by hand

The best pasta is fresh, homemade pasta! Tender and silky that holds onto any sauce better than boxed pasta.

This homemade pasta recipe is great for beginners looking to learn how to make hand-rolled pasta. Making your own homemade pasta isn't hard, it just takes some technique. You can pair any kind of pasta sauce you want with your delicious homemade pasta! This is an easy homemade pasta recipe that makes enough for 2-3 people so you don't have to be overwhelmed on your first attempts of making homemade noodles.

My favorite 4-ingredient homemade pasta recipe -- easy to make by hand, in a mixer, or in a food processor. See tips above for how to roll the pasta out either by hand, with a pasta maker, or with a stand mixer.

No machine, no problem - you can make these easy pasta shapes by hand! It's no doubt that pasta machines make the shaping process a whole lot more efficient - but there is something to be said about the rustic, homemade quality of shaping pasta by hand. It turns dinnertime into a craft that everyone can get into - especially kids! - and it's all the more rewarding to eat a dinner that had so much extra love go into it. If you want to try your hand at making some pasta shapes without a…

If our salute to the food carts of Portland, Oregon, taught us anything, it's that cooking in a scaled-back kitchen doesn't have to mean cutting corners. Rachael Grossman at the cart Artigiano wowed us with her method for making fresh fettuccine. Allowing the pasta to dry out before slicing it prevents sticking, makes for easy cutting, and yields noodles that retain their shape and bite during cooking.

These fresh pasta recipes are well worth the extra time.

Meryl Feinstein of Pasta Social Club shows us how to make hand-rolled pasta with kitchen tools, like orecchiette, cavatelli, capunti, busiate, and lorighittas.

Prepping pasta from scratch isn’t as hard as you might think. Our expert chef outlines the simple steps to help you get started.

Make this easy Homemade Cheese Ravioli recipe tonight! The light, fresh ricotta cheese filling will melt in your mouth. A delicious, elegant dinner!