Make Your Own Fresh Pasta - Vegan

A basic pasta dough recipe that you can make without a pasta machine or eggs. Easily customizable!

Ingredients: 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
about 2/3 cup of water
1/2 to 3/4 tsp salt
and if you're making filled pasta, you may want to add 1 tsp oil.

Step 1: Combine Ingredients and mix

-In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt, then add the water.

I wanted to flavour this pasta, so I added some thai curry paste to the water before mixing the ingredients together.
You can add anything you like. A couple of teaspoons of tomato paste will give you reddish pasta, pureed spinach will give you green pasta etc.
Go nuts! Just remember to adjust your liquid measurement as you add other ingredients.

-Stir the mixture with a fork until it starts to form a ball. Then you can use your hands to combine the dough. If it's too dry, add more water (very little at a time) or if it's too wet, add a touch more.

Comments

[ccurtis-grisham]

Thanks for the "nest for freezing" tip! That's super handy!

[jlynn16]

This is a good recipe. I used 100% whole wheat flour, and made tofu-spinach ravioli. I forgot to add the 1tsp oil recommended for filled pasta, but it turned out very well anyway. I'll be tucking this into my little recipe box for future use.

[JettyMae]

thats really nifty... i'm vegan and its totally hard to make anything f/ scratch... and then when you do it tastes well iffy. So i think tomorrow i'm going to start making myself up some noodles... i think this is so freaking awesome... Most Def.

[Computothought]

Sta bene...

[sibuadvancetech]

good information and I need it too

[Mander2033]

To hang noodles to dry: prop a broom handle horizontally (maybe between the backs of two chairs if they have the right design). Make sure you clean said handle really well (put down wax paper if you're feeling iffy about it). The width of the handle makes it much easier to handle the noodles and there's a lot of drying space! I learned it from a cookbook.

[TATTERH00D]

Rolling and then cutting pasta can be tricky, because if it hasn't dried out enough it can stick and be a complete pain. However, my sister spent some time in Japan and taught me a trick...instead of rolling to cut, zigzag/fold it down. Then when you cut it, it just accordians up instead of sticking in a roll. Or, you know, you could be patient and wait for it to dry enough.

[coopgrl88]

you can use skewers instead of the cooling rack to hang the pasta. Just tape them down so they don't roll.

[ConsiderSomeOneElse]

How much would the recipe change if one wanted to use wheat flour - or any other flour for that matter? Would one have to mix equal portions all-purpose and wheat flour or could full-on-wheat-action take place? Nice Instructable. Consider Some One Else - Stop Consuming Animals.

[LizzisALoser]

I have a question...if I make the dough, but don't have time to cut the noodles, would the dough be okay if I wrapped it and refridgerated them to cut later?

[Lizzio]

I think it would be okay for a little while, but not too long...it dries out pretty fast, especially without the egg. Give it a try! It's only flour and water, so if it doesn't work you can give it a go another time :)

[LizzisALoser]

Thanks. :D

[oldschoolpunkveg]

carbo its VEGAN :) so no eggs but ya cool recipe for those vegetarians like me out there but for vegans remove the egg :)

[Computothought]

Bravo! Who needs Bertoli!! I usually add the oil anyway to make trenette. I also like to make pasta with eggs also. 1 cup ap flour, 1tbl oil, 2 tbl water, and 1 egg. Fresh pasta tastes ten times better than the dried noodles. They sell fresh pasta at a premium in the store. Once you make your own pasta a time for two. you will never go back. I have a pasta machine, but still prefer the handmade rustic noodles. I like to take a rested dough spread it out in sort of a big square. I will flour it real will so nothing is sticky. I roll the dough up like a jelly roll. and then cut sections (cut perpendicular to the roll). that will be strips when unrolled. Boil the strips until cooked , remove from the water and then add your favorite topping to the noodles. mangia!

[BuffaloSabresBrewer]

Well done. I might have to try this tonight.