Pasta Perfection

Pasta, the jewel in Italy’s crown! Learn to make your own from scratch, with and without a pasta machine in this essential class for pasta enthusiasts.

Leiths chefs will teach you the techniques to make the perfect pasta dough to produce a range of regional dishes. When the hard work is done, sit down to enjoy your hand-made pasta with a rewarding glass of wine or cordial.

Typical recipes include:

Spring/Summer

Demonstration

• Pasta

• Rolling and cutting into tagliatelle

• Shaping tortellini

• Shaping orecchiette & recipe to taste

Practical:

• Tortellini of mozzarella and prosciutto, sage butter

• Herb tagliatelle with truffles and truffle oil

Autumn/Winter

Demonstration:

• Pasta

• Rolling and cutting into linguine

• Shaping garganelli

• Flavouring pasta (talk about)

Practical:

• Garganelli with a mushroom ragu, ricotta salata

• Linguine con vongole

Please note, recipes may change.

Class structure:

Your day will comprise of a mixture of hands on cookery and demonstrations performed by the Leiths tutors. Unless otherwise stated, you will be eating the food that you have cooked during your class for lunch, usually with wine or elderflower cordial around a communal table.

If your class does not involve cooking lunch you will enjoy delicious sharing platters prepared by the school.