Pasta All’uovo

Basic Egg Pasta

Preparation info
  • Makes about 1½ pounds , enough for

    8

    small first-course servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Enoteca

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2001

  • About

It is easy to buy fresh pasta nowadays, although most prepackaged supermarket pasta is rarely as delicate and tender as the pasta you can make at home. To make your own, all you need is a small hand-cranked pasta machine. (Please don’t use an electric-type extruder, which produces an elastic and often tough dough.)

The following recipe makes a rather stiff dough that ultimately yields a nice, light pasta. A drier dough produces pasta that does not become gummy when cooked, so take t