Pasta has been a staple of the Italian diet for well over a millennium and today there's no escaping pasta, wherever you go in the world. Whilst dried pasta is good for tossing in a starchy pasta sauce, sometimes only the silky elasticity of fresh pasta will do, whether it's in a steaming bowl of tortellini or a wonderful heap of glossy fettuccine.

There's something for everyone in our collection of fresh pasta recipes. If you're just starting out on your pasta journey, Filippo Trapella's Homemade tagliatelle recipe is a good starting point, or you can give Massimo Spigaroli's Herb and ricotta ravioli a try if you fancy something really traditional. Once you're comfortable with making your own pasta, well, the world is your oyster. Fresh pasta can be adapted to various dietary requirements – Cristina Bowerman uses buckwheat and rice flour in her excellent gluten-free tagliatelle recipe. Eugenio Boer uses cuttlefish ink to give his Mussel tortelli with sea urchin emulsion a striking black colour, whilst Francesco Sposito's Pistachio fettuccine uses Bronte pistachio flour to give his pasta a dark green hue. Luigi Sartini's spinach pasta follows a classic method, but he uses it for his far-from-traditional Lasagne Evolution dish. If you're really up for a challenge, take a look at Viviana Varese's incredible Rainbow pasta with Italian fish stew recipe, where she uses rocket, beetroot, cocoa, tomato and saffron to colour her patchwork pasta sheets.

There's plenty more besides in this collection, and each is useful in its own way for seeing how Italian chefs make their own pasta. Scroll down to take a look at all of our recipes.