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Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta Recipe by Herbal Academy
5 Sep 2025

Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta Recipe

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While we’re edging slowly but surely away from the summer season, you may not be ready to say goodbye to flowers just yet. You likely still have some herbs and edible flowers blooming, and if you’re looking to give your culinary herbs and edible flowers one last hoorah before the summer’s end, you will want to try this fun recipe. This Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta recipe is a creative way to elevate dinner time with gorgeous botanicals!
The best part of making Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta is that you can experiment with a variety of edible flowers and culinary herbs, so each batch is unique and a work of art in and of itself. When choosing herbs and flowers for your pasta, you want to stick with plants that have soft leaves and petals, such as basil, parsley, oregano, chives, nasturtiums, pansies, and calendula. You can use a flower press for the flowers before arranging them on the pasta. Stay away from the woody herbs like rosemary that might puncture the pasta dough and give less than desired results. 

Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta Recipe

This Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta recipe is a creative way to elevate dinner time with gorgeous botanicals!

Ingredients

2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour or “00” flour (plus extra for dusting)
3 large eggs
1 tsp olive oil (optional, for silkier dough)
½ tsp salt
Fresh garden herbs and pressed edible flowers (see above)

Directions
  • On a clean surface or in a large bowl, create a mound of flour.
  • Make a well in the center and add eggs, olive oil, and salt.
  • Using a fork, gently whisk the eggs, gradually incorporating the flour from the
    sides until a shaggy dough forms.
  • Time to knead! Bring the dough together and knead it vigorously for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
  • If it’s too dry, add a teaspoon of water at a time. If too sticky, dust lightly with
    flour.
  • Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap or place it under an overturned bowl and let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes (or refrigerate up to 24 hours).
  • To roll out with a pasta maker, divide the dough into two pieces. Keep the unused portion covered so it doesn’t dry out.
  • Flatten one piece slightly with a rolling pin, dust with flour, and feed it through the widest setting of your pasta maker.
  • Fold in thirds like a letter, turn 90°, and feed again. Repeat this fold + roll process
  • 2-3 times to build elasticity.
  • Continue rolling through narrower settings until the desired thinness is reached.

To add the herbs:

  • Wash, dry, and finely chop your selected fresh herbs.
  • Lay the pasta sheet flat on a lined baking sheet, and arrange the fresh herbs and pressed flowers in a single layer over the sheet of pasta, leaving small gaps in between.
  • Fold the other half of the pasta sheet over the herbs to enclose them like a book.
  • Run the sheet back through your pasta maker at the same thickness setting to seal the layers. Run it through thinner settings until you reach your desired final thickness.
  • Finally, cut and shape: use your pasta maker attachments to cut into fettuccine, tagliatelle, or spaghetti. Pro tip: dust with flour to prevent sticking!

Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta Recipe by Herbal Academy

To store, dust pasta strands with flour, nest them, and refrigerate up to 2 days or freeze in nests for up to 1 month.

When ready to cook, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 1-3 minutes until al dente. Remember, fresh pasta cooks very quickly! Serve immediately with olive oil, butter, and garlic, or your favorite sauce to highlight the herbal notes. 

In Closing,

Adding herbs and flowers to your homemade pasta recipe is one simple added step to making the most beautiful pasta—while also adding flavor and nutritional value. Take a moment to hold the floral pasta up to the light to enjoy the beautiful botanical mosaic! Making this pasta is a therapeutic and joyful process and creates a one-of-a-kind meal to enjoy with all your senses.

This Herb and Flower Homemade Pasta recipe is a creative way to elevate dinner time with gorgeous botanicals!

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The Herbal Academy is an online school of herbalism offering affordable herbalist training programs for students at all experience levels. Whether you are looking to explore herbalism as a hobby or personal endeavor or preparing for a career, the Herbal Academy has designed herbalist programs to suit your path and your educational needs! The Academy celebrates the community-centered spirit of herbalism by collaborating with a wide diversity of seasoned clinical herbalists, folk herbalists, and medical professionals to create an herbal school that presents many herbal traditions and points of view.

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