Pasta

Pasta – the Italian word for dough – is simply flour and water, sometimes combined with an egg and other added flavouring. Italian dried pasta is made from hard durum wheat, and it can be bought made with egg or simply with water. Although fresh pasta is supremely light and delicate, you should not feel that dried pasta is inferior; it is simply different. Good-quality dried pasta has a mellow flavour and a strength of texture which homemade pasta cannot achieve. Where homemade pasta does triumph is in the coloured and flavoured pastas.