Looking for a Vegan Pasta Recipe

[zoey]

Pasta is generally made with white flour, salt and an egg. What can I substitue for the egg to make a decent vegan pasta? What works the best, and are their different proportions/ extra ingredients?

[Coco]

I once saw a chef prepare a pasta dough using butternut squash, flour, and water. It wasn't a conventional pasta dough, and would have to be rolled out thicker than regular pasta, but it is totally vegan and looks delicious! You might start searching for something like that. Hope this helps.

[ironchef]

make gnocchi

[Anonymous]

I know you were thinking fresh pasta but a lot of dried pastas for sale are made with just water.

For home-made, you could get some of the effect of the egg by including a little (and I do mean a little) bit of vegetable-derived lecithin along with your flour-water mixture. Lecithin is the stuff in egg yolks that gives them their dispersion characteristics, so it should do the same for you in pasta. Might be worth a try.

[leigh]

Another possibility: Substitute 1 heaping tbsp of soy flour for each egg called for in recipe - works beautifully in baked goods/pancakes so might work in pasta too. Let us know what works!

PS White flour is such blah stuff (imho)! Around here it's whole wheat all the way . . . :D

[Fabiabi]

I would go for eggless gnocchi, takes a bit of practice and to go eggless you have to get the right balance of the other ingredients.