Pasta Lab: The Art & Science of Perfect Tortellini

🥠 Tortellini Lab: The Art of Making Tortellini

Think you know pasta? Let’s take it one step further.

Join the Amsterdam Food Lab for a hands-on workshop dedicated to one of Italy’s most iconic and most satisfying pasta shapes: tortellini.

This isn’t a cooking class where you simply follow a recipe and watch the chef do the work.

You’ll make everything from scratch.

We’ll mix and knead the dough, roll it by hand, prepare the filling, learn how to shape tortellini properly, cook it together, and, of course, eat a lot of it.

🧪 What we’ll explore

What makes the perfect pasta dough?

How thin should tortellini dough actually be?

How do you create a filling that is flavourful, balanced and has the right texture?

And perhaps most importantly…

How do you fold a tortellini that actually looks like a tortellini?

We’ll dive into:

🌾 Flour & eggs
👐 Kneading & resting
🔪 Rolling & stretching the dough
🥩 Creating the perfect filling
🥟 Tortellini shaping & folding
🔥 Cooking & texture
🥣 Choosing the right sauce & finishing

You’ll learn the techniques behind the pasta—not just follow a recipe—so you can recreate them in your own kitchen.

🍝 Then we eat

Once our tortellini are shaped, we’ll cook them together and sit down for a proper Italian-style meal (ragù will already be made upfront by the Italian master chef 🧑‍🍳).

Expect freshly made pasta, plenty of flour on the table and a relaxed atmosphere where it’s easy to meet new people.

👋 Who is this for?

Come if you:

• Love Italian food
• Want to learn how to make pasta from scratch
• Want to master the art of tortellini
• Enjoy hands-on experiences
• Want to meet interesting people in Amsterdam
• Are a complete beginner—or already obsessed with pasta

No previous pasta-making experience required.

🧪 The Amsterdam Food Lab

The Amsterdam Food Lab brings curious people together around food, experimentation and great experiences.

Our philosophy is simple:

Cook. Experiment. Eat. Connect.

📍 The details

⏱️ Approximately 4 hours
👥 Small group — limited places
🍝 All ingredients & equipment provided
👨‍🍳 Chef-led & fully hands-on

Come alone, bring a friend, or bring your date.

You’ll be making pasta together from the moment you arrive and probably leaving with a new obsession.

Because once you learn to make tortellini by hand, supermarket pasta is going to feel a little different. 🥟