Homemade vegan pasta recipe

Plate of homemade vegan pasta noodles with sauce

5 from 1 vote

Easy homemade vegan pasta recipe. How to make vegan pasta at home without eggs and without a pasta maker! Never buy store-bought pasta again after this.

Prep Time44

Total Time44

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Servings:

Calories: 353kcal

Author: Maria

Equipment

Rolling Pin

Ingredients

1½ cups all purpose flour
1 cup semolina flour or substitute for more all purpose flour
⅛ teaspoon turmeric powder optional - just to add color
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1 tablespoon olive oil

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Instructions

Make the dough

In a large mixing bowl add the flours, salt, turmeric powder and stir well.
1½ cups all purpose flour, 1 cup semolina flour, ⅛ teaspoon turmeric powder, ½ teaspoon salt
Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour the water and olive oil into the well.
1 cup water, 1 tablespoon olive oil
Mix well. Then form into a ball with your hands. Flour a clean surface and knead the dough for 9 minutes to activate the gluten and make the pasta more chewy.

Let it rest

Form the dough into a ball and cover with saran wrap, or place in a tupperware bowl with a lid. Set in the fridge and let it sit for 30 minutes, to let the gluten activate even more. No more than 17 hours.

Form the pasta

Cut the dough in half. Using a rolling pin, thinly roll out one of the dough balls on a lightly floured surface.
Lightly dust the surface of the dough once it's rolled out, to prevent it from sticking when we roll it up. Loosely roll it up
Cut into strips. Then do the same thing for the other portion of the dough.
Unfurl the pasta and then lay them in little pasta bundles that look like nests

Boil pasta

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and boil for 3 minutes. Serve with your favorite sauce.

Notes

If you don't have semolina flour

just replace it with the same amount of all purpose flour. No big deal!

If you don't have a rolling pin

You can use a wine or beer bottle, or something with a similar shape.

Gluten free option

You can make this gluten free by using gluten free all purpose flour. You also need to add a flax egg, since there is no gluten in this to make it chewy and stick together.

To make the flax egg, mix 1 tablespoon of ground flax seeds to 3 tablespoons of water. Let it sit for 5 minutes, then add it to the pasta mixture, when adding your other liquids. Be very gentle with it, as gluten free pasta tends to be more fragile and fall apart easier.

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