Recipes & How-To's
Fresh Pasta

Fresh Pasta

Impress your family and friends by making your own fresh pasta from scratch. It’s easier than you may think and you don’t even need a pasta machine (though it makes the process go more smoothly). Serve this pasta with your favourite sauce or use it to make ravioli.

Cook time

20 mins

Recipe Difficulty

Medium

Yield

Makes 16 oz

Ingredients

  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • Flour, optional

Directions

  1. Whisk together eggs, water and oil until blended.
  2. Place 2 cups flour and salt in a food processor; process to combine. Add egg mixture and process, using an on/off motion, just until dough comes together, about 30 seconds.
  3. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. If dough is too sticky, gradually knead in additional flour. Gather dough into a ball; flatten into a disc shape. Wrap disc with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 8 hours.
  4. Roll out using a pasta machine according to manufacturer’s instructions or roll out by hand.

Nutritional analysis per serving

*Ingredient not included in nutritional analysis.

329 calories, 8.7 g fat, 1.7 g protein, 48.1 g carbohydrate, 1.7 g fibre, 654 mg