How to make delicious home-made pasta

The recipe is easy: per 100 g of flour take one egg. You can roughly count 100g flour per person. The pasta is only as good as the eggs so search for quality.

Sieve the flour on a clean surface and make a circle.

Add the eggs to the middle and take a fork at hand.

After the dough is not liquid anymore continue without the fork and only your hands. This is a midway picture.

If it is a little dry just wet your finger with water and shake them well. You want just a tiny amount of water left. The bit of water on your fingers is enough to make the dough perfect.

When the dough is ready it will be quite firm and the work surface will be almost clean. For those of you lucky enough to have a KitchenAid or similar, making the dough is super easy!

Wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for an hour ( more or less, depending on how hungry you are).

This is the machine I use. I really like it and it works well for me. Recently I tried a different one and was very disappointed. If the machine works well the pasta is done in 10 minutes.

That's how it looks fixed on my work space.

Take the dough out of the fridge and separate a small portion. Here I had 300 g of flour with 3 eggs and took a third for the first round.

On settings 2 and 3 folding 3 times is enough. On the even higher settings just pass it once and continue with next setting.

That's the dough after the thinnest setting (9) depending on which pasta you make you don't need it that fine.

Cut the pasta as you like or use the supplied cutter for spaghetti ( I wanted really wide pasta!)

You can hang the pasta to dry wherever you like :)

Here a quick way to add intensive flavor. Make the dough the thickness you like.

Add some herbs (not too hard ones, like rosemary). I used sage but basil works great, too.

Fold the other half over the herbs and run it through the machine on the same setting you had before.

And you have pasta with added herbs.

You can additionally powder the pasta with flour and create little nests.

Those can be put in a ziplock or other container and frozen. When you want quick fresh pasta just drop them directly in boiling water. You will have pasta ready in 1 minute.

For fresh or frozen pasta have a big pot of boiling, salted water ready.

Dump the pasta on and wait 1-2 minutest ( depending on amount and thickness). When they float, they're ready!

Get rid of the water and add them to your sauce or whatever you like.

I had them with a traditional Bavarian pork roast (guide is coming up).

Enjoy you new pasta skills. Once you master the dough its easy to make ravioli and tortellini too and they taste so much better home-made!