Does anyone make their own pasta? Can you recommend a reliable recipe for a beginner?

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I have acquired a (very basic) pasta machine, and am possessed of eggs, 00 flour, and a day off work. I'd like to make some tagliatelle/parpadelle today, but don't know where to start. If anyone can link me to a reliable recipe or share tips I'd be very grateful

There isn't really a recipe. Crack a couple of eggs and work in flour until it's firm enough to roll out. That's it.

Also, watch Pasta Grannies on YouTube.

The basic recipe is 100g flour to 1 egg - so we do 200g flour to 2 eggs for a dinner for 2-3. You might have to adjust the amount of flour slightly if the eggs are very large or very small (the eggs we have are pretty large, so I usually use 220g flour). Our bread machine has a pasta setting which takes 20 mins so I let it mix the dough which is much easier - or any kitchenaid or food processor would do it. If you do it by hand it's a bit messy.

Good luck! Love homemade pasta.

1.64g flour every 1g egg was what I found on reddit last year and that worked perfectly.

I just googled BBC pasta recipe when I used to make it. Sometimes I'd add in pureed spinach or peppers for colour and extra flavour. The biggest issue I found was having the space to hang it once in the tagliatelle shape to dry. Maybe it doesn't need hanging and could be made into little basket shapes though?

thank you all! I did the BBC recipe as suggested. I found it a massive ballache TBH, and there were points at which I thought the whole lot was going in the bin, as the dough was really hard to work with, and seemed quite grainy and not smooth even after a few passes through the machine. However I stuck with it and DH reckoned the taste was worth the hassle.

Ha, I read your first post and was going to write 'dont bother, it's not worth the effort'. My one and only attempt ended with meh pasta, a disaster kitchen and aching arms for days.

Buy fancy pasta if you want, life's too short!

@TerrifiedPassenger glad it's not just me! I do a lot of things from scratch and find (eg) home made bread is sooo much better for comparatively little effort, but this was a really marginal difference, especially as we do buy decent dried pasta in the first place.

Jamie Oliver is probably the best for basic stuff like this. I normally can’t stand him but his early stuff does this well, before he got too fancy lol. I ised to use his basic early recipes to teach to the kids at school. Can be found on his website I think