Dry pasta

Are you interested in making your own fresh pasta? How you dry pasta can have a big impact on the finished product. Read our guide to drying homemade pasta.

Drying homemade pasta takes just a little advance planning and can provide a simple way to store large batches for later use. Plus, it can last for months.

This easy vegan Italian pasta salad is packed with veggies. Think juicy cherry tomatoes, salty black olives and sun-dried tomatoes, silky roasted red peppers, tangy marinated artichokes, fine threads of crisp red onion, and just a touch of fresh herbs for a pop of green goodness. A hearty, gluten-free fusilli serves as the perfect base, mingling with the veggies and a zesty Italian vinaigrette in the best of ways. The finishing touch? Heaps of salty vegan parmesan.

Italian typical pasta: spaghetti, tagliatelle, farfalle, fusilli, penne, rigatoni, ditalini.

When I learned how to make fresh pasta (thanks to my Italian mother-in-law) it was so easy that I was definitely encouraged to try it again soon! But we did run into one little snag near the end: my mother-in-law asked if we had a drying rack. Well, no.Pasta has to be quickly laid out or hung to dry as soon as it comes through the machine or as it’s rolled and cut. The thin noodles will dry quickly so you want them in the right shape for that.

Make some delicious Homemade Pasta and Marinara Sauce with our recipes, then download or labels and make them into easy gifts!

An ever-expanding catalog of dried pasta shapes.

If our salute to the food carts of Portland, Oregon, taught us anything, it's that cooking in a scaled-back kitchen doesn't have to mean cutting corners. Rachael Grossman at the cart Artigiano wowed us with her method for making fresh fettuccine. Allowing the pasta to dry out before slicing it prevents sticking, makes for easy cutting, and yields noodles that retain their shape and bite during cooking.