How to Make Pasta, Cook Pasta & Buy Pasta

All great pasta recipes are dependent on starting with quality pasta. Picking out the right pasta starts with an understanding of how pasta is made. Whether it is extruded through a pasta machine or made using a laminating pasta maker, fresh pasta and dried pasta will have clear indicators of quality.

In this lesson we will teach you how to buy pasta at the store and then teach you the key steps to cooking great pasta recipes every time. Lastly, we will teach how to make your very own homemade pasta using a pasta machine followed by a number of different pasta recipes for you to practice on.

Cooking pasta perfectly every time can be challenging, if you don’t know the steps to take and the key things to look for. This lesson provides a complete breakdown of all the key steps you need to know and do. The best part of all is that it’s fairly easy to do, once you understand why certain things have to happen. From then on, cooking pasta will be a breeze.

Most people tend to use dried pasta for making pasta recipes, but making your own pasta dough can be quick and easy.

This lesson teaches you how to make pasta dough using two different methods—making pasta by hand and making pasta using a food processor. You will also learn how to properly roll out the dough in a pasta machine using a process called laminating. Lastly, we will show you how to shape dough for making cannelloni, tortellini and ravioli.

This instructional cooking video on Pasta Cooking Essentials, is part of the Rouxbe Cooking School.

This cooking video is taken from the lesson on
How to Cook Pasta.

This instructional cooking video on Cooking & Testing Dried, Extruded Pasta, is part of the Rouxbe Cooking School.

This cooking video is taken from the lesson on
How to Cook Pasta.

This instructional cooking video on Making Pasta Dough in a Food Processor, is part of the Rouxbe Cooking School.

This cooking video is taken from the lesson on
How to Make Fresh Pasta | Laminated Pasta.