Quinoa Pasta
This homemade quinoa pasta recipe is straightforward and made with only quinoa flour, flax seeds, and water. The gluten free pasta is a different way to enjoy nutritious quinoa and is delicious simply with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Equipment
- 1 Rolling Pin
- 1 stove top
- 1 large pot to boil pasta water
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups quinoa flour
- 2 tbsp flax seed powder
- 0.5 cup water
Instructions
- Mix flax powder thoroughly into water to form flax egg. If using whole flax seeds, blend flax seeds with water in blender.
- Make sure work surface is clean. Put the quinoa flour in a mound and make a hole in middle to form a well. Put the flax egg in the well.
- With a fork, little by little incorporate the quinoa flour in the mound into the flax egg. When the flax egg starts to get too thick, stop using the fork and use your hands. Work the quinoa flour and the flax egg into a dough. Add more water if necessary. Lightly kneed the dough to make sure that the flax egg, water, and quinoa flour are completely incorporated. Let dough rest 15 minutes
- Clean your work surface and make sure it is sufficiently floured. Roll out dough in rectangle approximately 8" in length and about 1/8" thick. Use a long knife or a pizza cutter to cut noodles from your pasta sheet. Make the noodles about 5" wide.
- Cook pasta in salted boiling water for about three minutes. Exact cooking time will depend on the size of noodles and how long they have dried. Taste a bite of a noodle to make sure it is cooked properly. Be careful not to overcook; there is no gluten in this pasta, so the quinoa pasta will fall apart if overcooked.
- Drain and serve immediately. Serve with any sauce you prefer, or as simple as olive oil, salt, and pepper.