A fresh pasta capable of providing a cooked pastahaving a smooth surface appearance and a hard and elastictexture comparable to boiled dry pasta. A method formanufacturing a fresh pasta comprising extruding, at apressure of 80 kgf/cm2 to 200 kgf/cm2 to form noodles, adough obtained by kneading a raw material flourcomprising a wheat flour of hexaploid wheat group andhaving a gluten index of 45 to 100.