Dinner Party: How to Make Your Own Homemade Pasta

Host a dinner party and put your friends and family to work! This post will help you make your own homemade pasta from scratch.

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Have you ever made your own pasta? It’s not nearly as hard as you might think, as long as you have the right tools!

Ingredients you’ll need for homemade pasta:

• Flour
• Eggs
• Olive oil
• Salt

Equipment you’ll need:

• EITHER a pasta roller machine or the attachment for a KitchenAid mixer.
• A pasta drying rack.

See? Easy peasy.

You can also roll the dough out and slice the noodles by hand without the equipment, but I don’t have pictures for that.

The pasta making is the fun part, but you can also make your own homemade marinara sauce, alfredo sauce, salad and/or veggie sides.

But first you might want to whip up a cheese plate. The work will make you hungry.

Start with a clean surface, and measure out 2 cups of flour. Make a well for the eggs and crack open 3 of them. A single batch is enough for about 4 servings. (The pictures are a TRIPLE recipe, so this is 6 cups of flour and 9 eggs.)

Add 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and olive oil, then get to kneading.

It will be a mess for a bit, but eventually it will be a smooth ball of dough.

Separate into smaller balls (4 for a single batch). Now it’s time to use your machine or attachment!

Flatten it out slightly with your hands and then run it through the pasta roller. Start at a higher number (thicker) and work your way down to a smaller number (thinner) to get the desired thickness. Usually I make them as thin as they can be without getting holes.

On the topic of holes: it will probably happen the first couple times! Don’t fret. Just fold the dough back up and run it back through until you get it smooth.

A stand-alone pasta machine usually has a hand crank. The KitchenAid attachment runs automatically which frees up a hand.

Either way you’ll probably need a couple pairs of hands, especially if trying to snap a photo of your handiwork.

Using the cutter part of your pasta machine you’ll make your noodles! Separate carefully and place on dryer rack.

Repeat until all dough is flattened and cut.

Boil a big pot of water and then add the pasta. If you doubled or tripled the recipe you’ll also want to do this in batches.

In just a couple minutes your pasta will be done! You’ll know it’s cooked when it floats to the top of the water.

Maybe you also want to chop up some fresh parsley?

Or make your own alfredo or marinara sauce?

Roast up some brussels sprouts? (Cut up and roast at 400°F with some olive oil, salt and pepper until browned. Then top with fresh parmesan.)

Finally, everyone can eat!

Have you ever made homemade pasta?