Simple Fresh Pasta

Fresh pasta hanging in front of a blue tile wall.

A Simple and Delicious recipe for Fresh Pasta that you can make into any pasta shape! You can dress up with sauces, or simply with olive oil, cheese and herbs. Enjoy it however you would like!

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Prep Time:15

Resting the dough:1

Total Time:1 15

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Fettucine, Fresh Noodles, Fresh Pasta, Italian food, Lasagna, Noodles, Pasta, Spaghetti

Servings: people

Calories: 279kcal

Author: Mollie

Ingredients

3 Eggs
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
½ teaspoon Sea Salt
½ teaspoon Olive Oil

Instructions

Make a little, "well" with your flour
Crack Eggs into Center of Well
Add Salt and Olive Oil
Use a fork to whisk egg mixture into the well and slowly incorporate flour into the mixture
With your hands, gently push the flour into the egg mixture to incorporate all ingredients together to form a shaggy dough.
Set your timer for 10 minutes and start Kneading. This is the important step! It will start out sticky, or dry, but should come together after a minute or so. If it is still too dry to come together, moisten your fingers with water and continue kneading. If it is too wet and sticky, dip your fingers in flour and continue kneading until it forms a cohesive mixture. It will get tough, but just continue to knead until your 10 minute timer goes off!
Form dough into a ball and cover with plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature for 1 hour. This is also very important.
Cut dough ball into 4 equal parts.
Roll dough into desired form. If you have a pasta roller (makes it so easy!) Start by rolling one section of dough through the widest setting on your roller. This is either a 0 or 1. Roll it though 3 times. Then roll it through settings 2 and 3, three times each and through settings 4,5,6 one time each.
Sprinkle each completed sheet with flour and fold one end halfway onto itself, sprinkle the folded half with flour and then fold the other half back onto it. All of the touching parts of Pasta should be floured so they don't stick together.
One by one, take the pasta sheets and run them through the pasta roller into the desired noodle shape. Fettucine noodles seem to be the easiest to start with. You could also cut the sheets into wide lasagna noodles, or small squares, or circles for raviolis. Whatever you would like!
Boil Fresh Pasta for about 3 minutes depending on shape.
Top with your favorite sauce or herbs and cheese and enjoy!

Notes

If you have a stand mixer with a dough hook, you can use this to knead the dough. Let it go for 3 minutes on a low speed like 2. Your dough will be ready when you stretch it and it doesn't tear, but stretches so you can see light through it.
To freeze extra pasta dough, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and a zip loc freezer bag. It will store in the freezer up to a month.

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