Super Simple Homemade Pasta

Making pasta at home is easy, fun, and satisfyingly delicious with this easy-to-follow, photo-illustrated guide

Even if you have no experience at all, you can make Italian pasta like a professional chef in your own home kitchen with the Super Simple Handmade Pasta cookbook, adapted from the best-selling Making Artisan Pasta by James Beard Award–winning author Aliza Green. Perfect for the beginning cook, this book walks you through selecting ingredients and tools, how to use a pasta machine, and shaping, filling, and flavoring pasta—plus how to cook it perfectly and serving ideas. There is nothing complicated in these recipes—only delicious results!

Perfect the classic egg semolina pasta and also learn how to make all sorts of flavored pastas, from the more common tomato spinach pastas to shaped noodles flavored with herbs and spices including basil, chives, pepper, or saffron. Also explore unexpected flavors like beet and sweet potato and even chocolate, all made by hand.

Super Simple Homemade Pasta features:

  Recipes for pasta doughs—Make your own pasta doughs with classic ingredients including buckwheat and whole wheat flour, roasted red pepper, spinach, squash, mushroom, chocolate, and more. Step-by-step photo instructions—Following the simple, clear instructions, learn to use a pasta sheeter, an extruder, and a cavatelli maker as well as roll, cut, shape, and stuff dough for gnocchi, lasagna, cannelloni, pappardelle, tagliatelle, ravioli, and dozens of other types of classic Italian pasta. Helpful tips—Expert advice and serving suggestions will ensure pasta so beautiful and delicious your family and guests will be clamoring for more.

No need to serve dry, boxed, or frozen pasta again once you’ve easily mastered the recipes in Super Simple Homemade Pasta.