If you’ve ever felt like you couldn’t join the pasta-making party due to lack of equipment, worry not. We’ve got some awesome shapes you can make 100% by hand – no machines necessary!

So grab the little ones and get in the kitchen, because this is the making for a fun family dinner everyone can get in on. And to be honest – we prefer our pasta a little more rustic. There’s something about the way the imperfect rough edges grab onto sauce that’s unbeatably yummy – and you bet we’ve got the recipes to cook with these pastas after you’ve made them! 

Pappardelle

Pappardelle are wide, flat noodles that are super easy to make by hand. Start by grabbing a smaller chunk of dough and rolling it out as thin as possible with a rolling pin (ideally, if you hold up the sheet of dough, you’ll want to see the silhouette of your hand on the other side!). Once it’s at your desired thickness, simply cut strips about 1 inch wide, and as long as your dough is. It’s really not an exact science – that’s the beauty of it!

Cavatelli

For this fun folded pasta shape, you start in a similar fashion as the orechiette. Instead of using a butter knife to drag pieces, use your index and middle finger to pull the pieces toward you to create some roll-and-fold action.

Fusilli

Make homemade fussili by rolling a super thin “snake” of dough, and cut it up into pieces about 2 inches long. Wrap the pieces around a skewer and then let it fall off, creating a tightly-wound little noodles ready to be cooked and devoured!