How To Make Pasta - A Video Guide For Beginners

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How to make pasta: your easy video guide

Knowing how to make pasta from scratch really does not require major brainpower or any real skill... it's simply a case of mixing up, folding and rolling the mixture. That's it!

To learn how to make pasta, click the Play buttons below in order - and in 20-25 minutes you'll be the proud owner of seriously succulent fresh pasta. Just combine this with delicious pasta sauce and you're officially an Italian cook!

Note: For my making fresh pasta photo guide, click here.

First, here's why making fresh pasta is a great plan - including the ingredients you'll need:

So, ready?... start with Step 1 of my fresh pasta guide:

Then click Step 2, which is all about making your dough ball...

Step 3 of making fresh pasta is all about the rolling:

Step 3 continues here...

That's how to do it folks - authentic Italian style!

Last but not least, here's an quick guide to turning it your fresh flat pasta into delicious tagliatelle:

What next?

You have your ready-to-cook tagliatelle, so now it’s time to turn these supple strips into a winning Italian pasta dish. You have several options:

• Use this pasta to create a quick and delicious breakfast pasta.

Just boil up a big pan of water, throw in two good handfuls of salt, and pop in your tagliatelle for 1-3 minutes (basically until it floats to the surface, then a minute more). When ready, drain the pasta using a sieve/colander.

Now melt 25g/0.8oz of butter in a frying pan and mix this through the tagliatelle. Then just put the buttery pasta into pasta bowls and pop a fried egg on top of each serving. Simple and oh so tasty.

• Alternatively, tagliatelle goes perfectly with many of the pasta sauces found on this site.

If you’re a fan of eggplant (aubergine to us Brits), try making the ‘pasta alla norma’ sauce found here. This takes around 25 minutes and just requires eggplant, plum tomatoes, basil leaves and garlic.

Or how about a sumptuous classic tomato sauce like the easy version here? If you’re feeling carnivorous, you can throw some bacon chunks into this, or else go for a calorific fix by stirring in some soft ricotta cheese. Moreish stuff!

• Or… if you’d prefer to spend more time checking out all the pasta sauces on this site, buying any ingredients you don’t have, and making your favourite dish later today, cover your tagliatelle with kitchen paper for an hour or two.

(If you’re thinking your deliberations will take longer than that, you can also freeze tagliatelle. Just space the individual strips evenly on aluminium foil sheets and stack these in the freezer. Defrost them at room temperature when required - this usually takes half an hour or less.)

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