Italian fresh pasta

Fresh pasta

Italian fresh pasta is famous all over the world.
Fresh pasta dough can be made with eggs such as ravioli, tortellini, tagliatelle, large tagliatelle (pappardelle), thin tagliatelle (fettuccine).
Fresh pasta dough can be also made withput eggs: orecchiette, fusilli , Ligurian trofie, cavatelli ... .
Every Italian region has its own recipes.
So ravioli of Piedmont is very different from ravioli of Sardinia.
It's different the shape and the sauce to toss them too! Read the traditional recipes and our home cooking listed below to choose the recipe idea you prefer.
If you want to astonish your guests with a typical Italian dish, learn how to make a dish with fresh pasta.
You can begin your daily menu with this kind of pasta or choose a more elaborate recipe for a celebration.

Italian fresh pasta recipes - what you can find about fresh pasta on this page

How to make homemade fresh pasta
Our original home cooking
Traditional Italian fresh pasta
Pasta recipes by our readers

How to make homemade fresh pasta


Basic eggs pasta Cavatelli Potato dumplings (ver.1) Potato dumplings (ver.2)

Our original home cooking


Italian pasta dishes with king prawns and boiled ham Italian short pasta with turkey and mushrooms Agnolotti Cocoa tagliatelle (noodles) Egg spaghetti with speck		Fresh fusilli with tuna & olives Ligurian trofie with vegetables Red radicchio & sausage ravioli Tagliatelle wih king prawns Tagliatelle with wild mushrooms Green tagliatelle with prawns and bell peppers Tricoloured vegetable ravioli

Traditional Italian fresh pasta recipes


Agnolotti of Friuli Agnolotti of Piedmont Bolognese tagliatelle Broccoli and crab meat pasta Cavatelli with broccoli and crab meat Cavatelli with ricotta cheese (Apulia and Basilicata) Cavatelli with rocket & olives (Apulia and Basilicata) Cavatelli with turnip tops (Apulia and Basilicata)		Orecchiette with horse meatballs (Apulia) Orecchiette with red bell peppers (Basilicata) Pasta with beans (Latium and Abruzzo) Pumpkin pasta rings (North of Italy) Strozzapreti from Emilia Tortellini with cream-and-ham sauce Tortellini from Romagna (cappelletti)

Pasta recipes by our readers


Fresh pasta without eggs as Calabria women are used to make at home by Gino Larosa

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