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Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta

April 29, 2019 by Sarah Menanix

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Last updated on January 14th, 2021

Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta Recipe

This homemade gluten-free almond flour pasta is a perfect neutral pasta to top with your favorite sauce. Tender eggy noodles with a silken texture and an ever-so-slightly sweet flavor notes.

Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta

This post is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill, a year-long partner of Snixy Kitchen

Homemade Pasta without a Pasta MachineI served cacio e pepe with this homemade gluten-free almond flour pasta for dinner on Sunday and my three-year-old took one look at it and, without skipping a beat, instructed, “don’t put that in my lunch tomorrow.”

Excuse me – come again? She followed it up with, “I don’t like that pasta.” The girl hadn’t even tasted the pasta, but she’s three now, which means being contrary is her only job for the next 284 days until she’s four. (That’s how it works, right?). In the meantime, I’m thinking of getting her a shirt that reads, “don’t put that in my lunch.” to save her the hassle of commanding me whenever I serve her unfamiliar food.

But this pasta! It’s basically grown-up toddler food! I fed her the fanciest restaurant-quality homemade. gluten-free. cheesy. pasta. and she acted like I was poisoning her. That is, until she tasted it and changed her tune. This pasta is incredible.  These kids have no idea how good they’ve got it. 

If you’re making plans to serve a special mama something delicious for Mother’s Day, this pasta would top my list.

Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta Recipe

Homemade Gluten-Free Pasta

This homemade gluten-free almond flour pasta is the third recipe in a year-long partnership with Bob’s Red Mill. So far this year, I’ve made gluten-free pop tarts with strawberry jam and gluten-free matcha crepe cake and now I’m balance out the sweet with this savory fresh pasta. 

Many gluten-free recipes online simply call for any generic gluten-free all-purpose flour. While those certainly have their place (I love Bob’s Red Mill’s gluten-free all-purpose blend), I love creating gluten-free recipes that celebrate the flours that they’re made of with a flour blend tailored to the texture of the specific thing I’m making. I find the flavors more exciting and textures more appealing. 

If you’re new to gluten-free baking and cooking, it can feel daunting (and pricey) to buy multiple bags of gluten-free flours for just one recipe. That’s where I’ve got you covered – with my recipe filter, you can sort recipes by gluten-free flour type(s) to use up whatever bag of Bob’s Red Mill flour you’ve got in your pantry! Once you’ve stocked your pantry with a few of the basic flours, you can make almost anything. This pasta uses three of my pantry staples: almond flour, tapioca flour/starch, and sweet rice flour.

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How to make Gluten-Free Pasta

Can you make pasta with almond flour?

Absolutely! Pasta made with almond flour is packed with protein and much more nutritious than traditional pasta.  Almond flour alone is brittle and difficult to make into homemade pasta. Even if you’d managed to form noodles, they’d likely crumble into pieces in the boiling water. That’s where tapioca flour/starch and sweet rice flour come in as the magic super hero sidekicks. They work together to bind the pasta together. Sweet rice flour gives it the pliability and chewy texture reminiscent of traditional semolina wheat pasta. 

If you’ve ever made homemade pasta before, you’ll notice that the dough for this gluten-free almond flour pasta is much softer and sticker than traditional wheat pasta dough. If you increase the ratio of almond flour, the oils from the nuts are extracted out as the pasta rolled try to squeeze the dough through them. Instead, keep the dough softer but dust it generously with tapioca starch. 

How to make Gluten-Free Fresh Pasta?

Gluten-free fresh pasta is so easy to make and so much more delicious than store-bought pasta. Traditional fresh pasta dough that has to rest before you roll it out to develop the gluten. You don’t have to do that for homemadegluten-free pasta because you use tapioca and sweet rice flour to bind the flours together. Just whisk the flours together, whisk the eggs together in a well in the center, slowly incorporating the flour until it forms a dough. Alternatively, dump it all in a stand mixer until combined.

Homemade gluten-free almond flour pasta dough doesn’t have the same elasticity of a gluten-filled dough. This means it’s slightly more delicate. As long as you continuously dust the outside generously with tapioca starch as you push it through the pasta rollers, it’s still easy to work with. 

Making almond flour pasta noodles without a pasta maker

Gluten-free pasta is also so easy to roll it out by hand. No pasta machine required! Without gluten’s elasticity adding resistance, you can easily roll out the dough paper thin with a rolling pin. Just be sure to your surface generously with tapioca starch to keep it from sticking before rolling it out. Fold the paper-thin pasta dough up and cut it into fettuccine strips with a knife. 

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Do I need xanthan gum in gluten-free pasta?

Yes. And no. I’ve made many different kinds of gluten-free pasta (see a list below), often experimenting with leaving out the xanthan gum per request from many readers. Time and time again, I’ve found that, without xanthan gum, the dough is just too crumbly. It falls apart going through the pasta maker, or, if you do roll it out, it breaks while it cooks. 

I’ve made a version of this gluten-free almond flour pasta that substitutes the xanthan gum for 1 tablespoon psyllium seed husks (Bob’s Red Mill Psyllium Fiber Powder). The dough is more delicate to work with and to eat than the version with xanthan gum – it will break a part a bit when cooked if rolled too thin.

For that substitution, you’ll need to let the dough rest 10-15 minutes after you roll it together to let the psyllium seed husks soak up some of the moisture and help with the elasticity. Additionally, don’t roll the dough out quite as thin. You can roll it through the pasta maker only on a size 1. However, I recommend hand-rolling this more delicate version with a rolling pin using the alternative method shown here. 

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Using almond flour as the base flour creates a gluten-free pasta that is neutral in flavor with a moderate hint of sweetness. This pasta makes a great neutral pasta to pair with your favorite sauce. Here I’ve turned into cacio e pepe!

I recommend making a large batch and freezing the fettuccine nests, layered between parchment paper to keep them from freezing together. When you want fresh homemade gluten-free pasta, just drop the frozen pasta nests straight into the boiling water. 

My homemade gluten-free pasta dough recipes:

  • Gluten-free Chickpea Pasta
  • Gluten-free Whole Grain Pasta
  • Gluten-Free Chestnut Flour Pasta
  • Gluten-Free Chickpea Beet Pasta

Disclosure: Special thanks to Bob’s Red Mill for providing the flours shown above and sponsoring this post! And thanks to you for supporting the companies that keep Snixy Kitchen cooking!

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Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta Recipe

Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pasta

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 35 minutes
Cook Time: 4 minutes
Total Time: 39 minutes

This homemade gluten-free almond flour pasta is a perfect neutral pasta to top with your favorite sauce. Tender eggy noodles with a silken texture and an ever-so-slightly sweet flavor notes.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (240g) Bob's Red Mill super-fine blanched almond flour
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoon (82g) Bob's Red Mill tapioca flour/starch, plus more for rolling
  • 1/4 cup (44g) Bob's Red Mill sweet rice flour (different from "white rice flour" or "brown rice flour")
  • 1 teaspoon Bob's Red Mill xanthan gum (*see note)
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl or the bowl of stand mixer or a large mixing bowl, whisk together the almond flour, tapioca flour, sweet rice flour, xanthan gum, and salt.
  2. Create a well in the middle of the flour and crack the eggs into the middle. Add the olive oil.
  3. Use the dough hook of the stand mixer to gently mix the eggs together with the flour on low speed, or, if doing so by hand, use a fork to lightly whisk the eggs together in the middle of the well, then begin mixing it all together with the flour.
  4. Once it's well mixed, use the dough hook or your hands to knead until it forms a dough. It using your hands, it will be quite sticky, so coat them in tapioca starch to knead. This dough is softer than traditional pasta touch.
  5. Roll the dough into a ball, dusting it in tapioca starch, and lightly flatten into a disk. Cut into 6 pieces and wrap the dough in plastic. If using psyllium seed husks in place of xanthan gum, see note below.
  6. Bring 3-quarts of water to boil in a large pot with a teaspoon of salt.
  7. One piece at a time, press the dough on a tapioca-floured surface until it is as thin as you can make it with your hands, reserving the other pieces in plastic wrap under a towel.
  8. With a pasta roller or rolling pin, roll out each piece into a thin sheet, lightly dusting both sides with tapioca flour each time you pass it through the rollers. If using the KitchenAid pasta roller attachment, send the dough through setting 1, fold it in half, then send it again. Repeat until it feeds through smooth, then reduce the thickness one stop and roll to a 2 or 3 thickness. Dust each side with tapioca flour before cutting.If rolling by hand, heavily cover your surface in tapioca starch and roll it until it is very thin.
  9. Either by hand or using the fettuccine cutter attachment, cut each sheet into noodles. To do so by hand, dust both sides with tapioca flour, fold it up lightly on itself, and cut into thin strips. Place noodles in a nest on a tapioca-floured baking sheet while rolling out the rest. If storing, place uncooked noodles between sheets of parchment paper in a freezer- proof bag. Freeze for up to 6 months. Cook frozen noodles straight out of the bag without defrosting.
  10. Drop the noodles into the boiling water and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drain the pasta in a colander and gently toss it with a bit of olive oil to keep it from sticking together.
  11. Serve with your favorite sauce! (Here I've served it simply as cacio y pepe, but I lalso ove making almond milk fettucine alfredo!).

Notes

*You can substitute xanthan gum for 1 tablespoon psyllium seed husks (Bob's Red Mill Psyllium Fiber Powder). The dough is more delicate to work with and to eat than the version with xanthan gum (it will break a part a bit when cooked if rolled too thin). To substitute, let the dough rest 10-15 minutes after you roll it together to let the psyllium seed husks soak up some of the moisture and help with the elasticity. Don't roll the dough out quite as thin. You can carefully roll it through the pasta maker only on a size 1 or, I recommend hand-rolling and cutting that version with a rolling pin.

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62 Comments

  1. todd -

    April 30, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    Can’t wait to try making this for the fam!!

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    • Lex -

      November 12, 2019 at 1:42 pm

      I’m always trying to get my carbaholic to eat better! These might help! I feel your pain, Brent! What are the carb count in these, I’m keto.

      Reply
  2. Brent -

    May 2, 2019 at 11:24 am

    Looks delicious. As my daughter is on a carb-only diet, perhaps this is how I can get some fiber and protein in her! Also, if you end up making “Don’t put that in my lunch” T-shirts, I want one! That may be a well-used article of clothing in our household :)

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    • Sue -

      June 21, 2019 at 4:36 pm

      Why would she be on a carb-only diet? That is extremely unhealthy.
      https://www.quora.com/How-long-could-a-person-survive-on-a-carbohydrate-only-diet

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      • Amanda -

        January 6, 2020 at 7:54 pm

        Because she’s a child, I’m assuming ????

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        • Chrismarie -

          January 13, 2021 at 8:11 pm

          And who is the adult in charge….that’s right! Mommy n daddy are. Say no. You can do it!! :-)

          Reply
  3. Elizabeth -

    May 6, 2019 at 8:37 am

    This post has me aching to break out my pasta maker! It’s looks so perfect and toothsome – congrats on nailing homemade gf pasta. I’m sorry that your heroic efforts were…under-appreciated by the pre-school set. I’ve been there.

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    • Jason d brand -

      November 25, 2020 at 10:03 pm

      Have you tried this in a pasta maker

      Reply
  4. Mimi -

    May 12, 2019 at 7:29 am

    Oooh, you had me at almond flour! I’m not a huge pasta person but my hub is and I’m always trying to get him to eat healthier. Any chance of getting the macros for this?

    Reply
  5. Wendy -

    June 22, 2019 at 11:39 am

    Hi there. Would these noodles hold up being used in chicken noodle soup?

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    • Alison -

      April 2, 2020 at 12:30 pm

      They were amazing in soup

      Reply
  6. Madison -

    July 24, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Have you tried this recipe with a pasta extruder? I have the kitchen aid one and I’m wondering if it will go through well enough to make the rigatoni. My experience with it for regular pasta dough is that it has to be very dry.

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      July 24, 2019 at 2:19 pm

      I haven’t tried this almond flour pasta with the extruder – I also have the extruder but I haven’t really used it yet! I did use it once and I can’t remember which recipe I used, but if I were to try it again, I’d use it with this gf pasta recipe because it’s less oily when extruded (when overworked, the almond flour pasta dough tends to get oily from the nut flour). If you try that, let me know how it works!

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  7. Cate -

    July 30, 2019 at 8:39 am

    Is this pasta strong enough to make into
    ravioli? I was just lamenting on Saturday that good gf pasta was really the last frontier. This has me hopeful.

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      July 30, 2019 at 9:49 am

      First, I should say that I’ve not yet made ravioli out of this particular pasta dough (because now I have two small children and very little dinner prep time;), but I’m certain it will work great! The texture is not far off from my chestnut flour pasta or my chickpea pasta both of which make great hand-cut ravioli! If you make it, please let me know how it turns out for you!

      Reply
  8. karen -

    August 14, 2019 at 11:14 am

    can this be made without rice flour iam on keto diet how many carbs are in this noodle reciepiekaren

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      August 18, 2019 at 10:38 am

      I’ve not tried this recipe without sweet rice flour. Sweet rice flour has a special sticky texture that allows you to make the pasta without gluten to hold it all together. I might try replacing it with more tapioca starch – though I’ve not tested this so not sure how well it will work!

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      • Laureen Stilling -

        January 3, 2020 at 1:31 pm

        I may try this by replacing the rice flour with Vital Wheat Gluten which has no carbs and should hold better. I make a very low carb bread with vital wheat gluten, oat fiber and ground flax. It’s awesome!!

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        • Fran Carbone -

          March 5, 2020 at 9:37 am

          Laureen Stiling – can you share your low carb bread recipe with us?? thank you!

          Reply
        • Kristine Leigh -

          March 19, 2020 at 2:50 am

          Hi Lauren,

          did it work out with the Vital Wheat Gluten?

          If so, did you sub 1:1 with the Rice Flour quantity? And did you still include the Tapioca starch as also high in carbs?

          Reply
        • Charlotte -

          March 19, 2020 at 8:15 pm

          Laureen Stilling would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I have been trying bread recipes and haven’t found one that I’m really happy with.

          Reply
      • Alison -

        April 2, 2020 at 12:32 pm

        I used coconut flour as my husband cant have anything rice. It was great

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      • Makeba Jones -

        June 11, 2020 at 11:18 am

        i tried it with regular rice flour and it was a bit crumbly. IIt was very delicious as well but I am going to order the sweet rice flour and also the coconut flour becasue i see that someone used it and turned out good. I love this recipe tho!!!

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        • Sarah Menanix -

          June 11, 2020 at 1:39 pm

          I really recommend the sweet rice flour – it’s got the chewiness/stickiness needed to hold it all together, whereas regular white rice flour is brittle/crumbly. Excited for you to get sweet rice flour to try it out!

          Reply
    • John Goedike -

      June 1, 2020 at 2:58 pm

      I am prediabetic and need to watch my carb intake. And I love pasta!!!!! And idea what the count would be? Is this flour sold in Canada?
      Thanks
      John

      Reply
  9. Anne -

    September 8, 2019 at 11:30 am

    Nutrition information, please?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      September 8, 2019 at 2:51 pm

      The specific ingredients used in each recipe can vary extensively from one person to the next. If you’re looking for this information, please plug the exact ingredients you use into any of the free online calorie counters, like this one.

      Reply
  10. Emma -

    September 9, 2019 at 10:40 am

    Are large batches able to be made ahead of time and saved for later in the freezer perhaps?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      September 10, 2019 at 10:12 pm

      Yes! When I make pasta in advance I make sure to dust the noodles well with tapioca flour before curling into individual nests. I then place those nests on parchment paper in a sealed freezer bag and freeze until ready to use. When ready to cook, cook the noodles directly from the freezer without defrosting!

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      • me -

        November 12, 2019 at 4:12 am

        Tapioca flour is too starchy!!! Is there anything else I can use to make is even more keto friendly.

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        • Sarah Menanix -

          November 12, 2019 at 10:09 am

          I’ve not tried this recipe without the tapioca flour. Tapioca flour helps the noodles stick together and gives them the soft texture, without it I’m afraid the noodles would be brittle. I might try replacing it with more sweet rice flour – but I’ve not tested this so not sure how well it will work!

          Reply
  11. Jay Cohen -

    October 8, 2019 at 4:25 am

    Thanks for working up this recipe. I’m making Rav’s today, will report back.

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    • Kate -

      October 9, 2019 at 10:06 am

      How to did work out?

      Reply
  12. me -

    November 12, 2019 at 4:10 am

    I may use this dought to make “pasta” calazones

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      November 12, 2019 at 10:10 am

      Would you boil them? I don’t think the noodles would hold up well to lots of filling as gluten-free pasta tends to be a little more delicate. That being said, it’d work great for ravioli!

      Reply
  13. Amanda ortiz -

    November 29, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    What is the net carb for the almond flour pasta ?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      December 11, 2019 at 9:55 am

      I don’t calculate the nutritional information on my recipes, but I recommend putting the ingredients into a free online nutrition calculator!

      Reply
  14. Julie -

    December 12, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    Amazing! I had to substitute the sweet rice flour with arrowroot, but I used the same amount as the recipe calls for. I then entered the ingredients into MyFitnessPal, made the whole recipe 6 servings, and net carbs were only 12. Some may think that’s high, but for a whole meal, I’ll take it! Don’t let anyone get mad about this not being Keto, I never read anywhere that it was supposed to be! I was also able to take one of the 6 dough balls and serve it as 3 portions, so actually only around 4 net carbs. Wonderful recipe! I’ve added a pasta attachment to my Christmas list because of you! Thank you!

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    • Noel Derecki -

      May 10, 2020 at 1:28 pm

      Julie, I don’t know you, but I loved your comment. It was super-helpful, positive, and realistic. I’m going to try this as well as the original, which looks amazing!

      Reply
  15. Maureen Gibbons -

    January 2, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    Can you make this pasta with gluten flour and almond flour, as I’m on keto diet,

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      January 3, 2020 at 9:33 pm

      I’m really not sure! I’ve not tried the pasta with all-purpose flour, but I think it would probably work!

      Reply
  16. Josefina -

    January 3, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Hi! Thanks for this wonderful recipe. What can I use instead of rice flour?

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    • Lara -

      June 21, 2020 at 10:46 pm

      Someone said they replaced the rice flour with arrowroot flour but I don’t have arrowroot so I’m going to attempt to add the almond flour and the tapioca flour and then probably a little bit extra tapioca in place of not having arrowroot but they said arrowroot in the exact one to one with the sweet rice flour so that’s an option and there was someone that said they used coconut flour in place of the rice for their husband who can’t have rice so those are options.

      Reply
  17. Ronald P Trotta -

    January 25, 2020 at 2:56 am

    USED ALMOND FLOUR TO MAKE MANICOTTI PASTA (COOKED PASTA) WITH ALMOND FLOUR , ALMOND MILK AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF ALL PURPOSE WITH EGGS. i WANT TO TRY TO USE THE OTHER POWDER YOU SUGGESTED IN PLACE OF THE ALL PURPOSE. BUT THEY ARE AWESOME.

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    • Sachiko -

      February 10, 2020 at 12:04 pm

      Thank you so much for creating this recipe. I made raviolis with this dough and they were absolutely fantastic. I made some noodles with leftover dough and they were great too! GF raviolis are expensive but now I can make at home! Thank you!!!

      Reply
  18. Orwell James -

    January 28, 2020 at 8:00 am

    Can the eggs be substituted with water (or possibly a healthy oil) for a lower-fat version? I would assume between the fats naturally in the almond flour and the xantham gum there should be enough emulsification, but it is strangely hard to find an almond flour pasta recipe without egg online!

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    • Noel Derecki -

      May 10, 2020 at 3:15 pm

      Hi, Orwell. Your question is interesting, but likely only answered by empirical methods! I’m a scientist (neuroimmunologist by trade, but I dabble in material science with polymers, co-polymers, hydrogels, etc.) and much of that applies to culinary science. An example would be controlling a maillard reaction with sodium bisulfate or potassium bisulfate and swapping oligosaccharides in and out with monosaccharides and disaccharides to modify physical properties of the final product.

      Anyhow… my main comment is that I’ve found emulsification to not necessarily be a linear function of “percent lipids” but rather is affected by energy (heat, mixing, etc) cofactors, pH, and the structure of the lipid itself which all figure into hydrolysis, etc.

      Please try and let me know! I dream up lots of stuff that works “in my head” but not when I try it the first time…

      Reply
  19. Sharon Male -

    February 23, 2020 at 2:50 am

    Would this be suitable to use for lasagne?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      February 23, 2020 at 10:23 pm

      While I haven’t used it for lasagna before, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be delicious in lasagna!

      Reply
  20. Judy Besserman -

    March 29, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    Can coconut flour be used in place of rice flour?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      March 29, 2020 at 3:38 pm

      Hm – I’ve not tried that! However, the sweet rice flour is used to help bind the dough together and make it chewy, which I don’t think coconut flour would do. If you don’t have sweet rice flour, I would recommend using more tapioca flour, then possibly add a bit more xanthan gum or psyllium seed husks! You could also try adding 1-2 tablespoons ground chia seeds if you have them (ground in a coffee grinder) and adding a tablespoon more water.

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      • Lara -

        June 21, 2020 at 10:52 pm

        When you say adding a little more tapioca and a little bit more Xanthium what are you talking like placing one to one the rice with the tapioca like the same amount of tapioca as you would rice flour on top of the amount of tapioca you already use? I’m just trying to make sure I’m very visual and I don’t have visuals here so I have to be extremely literally explained I apologize for that that’s just how my brain works. And how much extra xanthan gum? And I don’t have any Chia seeds or anything like that I can use.

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        • Sarah Menanix -

          June 23, 2020 at 12:26 pm

          While I haven’t tried it (so I can’t guarantee the outcome!), what I would try is replacing the sweet rice flour by weight with tapioca flour (on top of the tapioca flour already called for) or cassava flour, then possibly adding 1/2 teaspoon more xanthan gum. My guess is that it will be moderately more delicate while rolling out, so just go slowly and have patience!

          Reply
  21. Steven L BASS -

    May 22, 2020 at 8:09 am

    Although I used exact measurements it’s far too dry and won’t form a dough. What sholu I add?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      May 22, 2020 at 8:34 am

      Did you Bob’s Red Mill flours – I’m find that different brands have a finer or less fine grind which can absorb moisture more or less. I also recommend measuring by weight has the best outcomes for gf. Not to worry, I would knead in a teaspoon of water at a time until it comes together!

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  22. Lara -

    July 14, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    Okay I’m having the opposite problem that most people have if there’s a problem. Most of the time when someone says I have a problem it’s because it was too dry and not moist enough but for me it was so sticky that I could not stop it from sticking like a paste to my hands 3 inches thick and I had to get a knife and carefully wedge it off of my fingers and the more that I just kept kneeding it I kept becoming this consistency which is stickier and stickier and stickier and I never could get it to be at a point where it stops being sticky and eventually forms into a dough is that because I chose to not have the rice flour and do the extra tapioca in place of the flower like you had told me in one of my comments /questions? Because I had asked if I don’t have the rice flour what could I do and ask if I could use extra tapioca and you said yes so I did exactly as instructed there in the reply and I feel like maybe I had too much tapioca because it is a starch and it does get kind of ‘s Moti-ish when wet so maybe when it mixed with the eggs and the oil it just became more and more pasty I don’t know I’m just trying to figure out why it does not want to get unsticky. when did flower my surface with tapioca and I think that made it worse because I was just making it more sticky by adding more tapioca and it kept sticking all over my counter and I wasn’t getting it to come off the counter so I had to wash it off and then I even tried to do it between parchment paper but it would stick to the parchment and I had to eat very carefully if you will with a knife off of the parchment and I ended up sticking it in the freezer to make it solidify and that helped a little but what am I doing wrong?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      July 14, 2020 at 6:48 pm

      Hi Lara! Oh no! I’m so sorry you had trouble. The tapioca substitution comes with the caveat that I haven’t tested that version so I can’t confirm how well it would turn out. I would still love to troubleshoot what may have gone wrong! In the event it would be too sticky, I would have gently kneaded in more tapioca starch. The tapioca starch mixed with liquid shouldn’t be overly sticky without heat added though, so I don’t think that would cause the stickiness issue. A few troubleshooting questions/ideas:
      1. Did you use Bob’s Red Mill branded superfine almond flour (not almond meal) and tapioca starch? I notice other brands of tapioca flour absorb moisture more or less and some almond flours are much oilier or less finely ground, which will make a big difference. If you used a different brand/type of flour, then that’s my first suspicion for what may have gone wrong.
      2. Did you measure by cup or weight? If measuring by cup, there’s more room for error and you may end up with less flour than is needed.
      3. Did you use a stand mixer with a dough hook or by hand with a fork to mix the dough? (If you overmix the almond flour dough with some other method, ex. food processor or hand mixer, the oils from the almond flour will get worked out and your dough may become more sticky).
      4. Using the right size eggs is also another important thing as an XL egg is significantly more liquid – just wanted to confirm you used large-size eggs?

      Hope this helps and we can figure out how to make sure you have yummy pasta next time!

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      • Lara -

        July 14, 2020 at 9:47 pm

        I watched somebody online explaining how to make a well inside of the dry ingredients. He shows, you drop your eggs in and then you slowly whisk your fork not breaking the wall of the well that you made with your dry ingredients but just whisking a little at a time into your eggs and then basically you eventually start breaking more of the wall down and whisking that more in. When you have enough that you can start using your hands then go for it. I had to watch this video because I had never made pasta like that. I don’t think I’d ever actually made pasta before now. I have made dough before but never pasta so I kinda didn’t know how. he explained that if you do just the egg yolk it makes the pasta more yellow but that you can use the whole egg if you want . I might in the future try to use just the egg yolk skipping the egg whites just to see if that makes a difference if it’s less liquidy. But to answer your question I did use Bob’s red Mill for everything and I used superfine blanched almond or whatever it’s called it’s more white. I do also have the more coarse almond flour that is more dark tone but no I did everything I was supposed to and I followed it exactly. You did mention that I could possibly sub extra tapioca than was already called for in the recipe one to one for the sticky rice flour and so I tried it . I knew that it hadn’t been tried before but that it had been suggested as a possibility so I was like I’ll be the one to test it out and see how it works.

        I think it might have been too much making it too sticky. I don’t know. I’m not really sure where the error was exactly. But what I should have done is kneeded it the best that I could and then stuck it in the freezer and after an hour in the freezer I should have taken it out and then played with it because I think I spent oh maybe 45 minutes kneeding it by hand because I didn’t have a stand mixer . I should’ve mixed it until I couldn’t mix it anymore and then just stuck it in the freezer. But I stayed at it for 45 minutes. I can say I did get it after 45 minutes to where it was not really sticking to my hands as much but it still significantly was pasty on my fingers and I had to use something to scrape it off my fingers into the bowl but after 45 minutes it was pretty decently workable where it wasn’t as sticky. I decided to dump it onto parchment and yes it’s stuck so heavily to the parchment that it almost ripped the parchment. I just slapped another parchment on top and I used my hands to literally smack and smack it flat and then stuck it in the freezer and then after it was pretty decently chilled I took it out and I used a rolling pen and I also was able to pry it away from the parchment at that point and then I just worked out it until it was nice and flat for another five minutes and then stuck it back in the freezer because I was getting it warm with my hands and I needed it to stay chilled.

        Then I attempted to roll it into a log so that I could cut 1 inch chunks as in the the picture on your site but it didn’t do exactly what I wanted so I decided to play with it like Play-doh. Just took little tiny chunks and I rolled it in my hands but I had to coat them so it didn’t stick to my hands. Keeping it chilled was the easiest way to keep it from sticking to my fingers and I just rolled it into little miniature 3 inch “snakes” as one does with playdoh and I was able to flatten them out and then use my knife to pick them off the parchment and cut them in half to make them even smaller and then I have my noodles. It was a painstaking process but I got what I wanted and I now have a pretty good size Tupperware full of egg noodles.

        And they are very thick in comparison to what I was expecting. I was expecting them to be very very easily breakable if not using a noodle machine to stretch the dough and then cut because I saw some other people that questioned it and were told if you don’t have this or this you might have more fragile dough and that’s what I was expecting but I got sticky still and I like I said had to chill it in order for it to get solid enough if you will that I can play with it. Once I got it into the noodles that I want they came out more like gnocchi consistency and thickness but shape like a noodle and when I boiled them they were thick like gnocchi but they taste like egg noodles . So I’m not really sure where the problem happened. BUT I did take my smarts and cleverness and I still got the results . If somebody else wants to try doing what I did which is followed the recipe exactly to the t except switch out the rice flour and use 1/4 cup of tapioca in its place knowing that there’s already tapioca to start with and see if they get the same result as me or if they can figure out how to get it normal and let us all know that would be great. Or I can in the future try it again and do some altering knowing what I know. but if anybody reads this and hasn’t tried it themselves my way but has a background in some areas they might know some suggestions that would be great. At least I got them done.

        I mean they literally look like crap and I cannot seem to upload a photo to show you guys but they taste like egg noodles with the consistency of gnocchi because I wasn’t able to get them quite like a “flat” noodle but that’s okay they taste like egg noodles and that’s all that matters. But I felt a duty to tell everybody if you’re gonna try what I did you might have the same result just FYI so now you can have my experience to guide you if you try that.

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  23. Becca -

    October 28, 2020 at 7:56 am

    Can you sub coconut flour for the rice flour?

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    • Sarah Menanix -

      October 28, 2020 at 9:46 pm

      I would not recommend that. Coconut flour absorbs liquid so it would be very dry, but it also does not have the necessary stickiness component. The sweet rice flour is used to help bind the dough together and make it chewy, which I don’t think coconut flour would do. If you don’t have sweet rice flour, one reader above said they used arrowroot starch with success. I may also try subbing in more tapioca flour in place of the sweet rice flour, then possibly add a bit more xanthan gum. You could also try adding 1-2 tablespoons ground chia seeds if you have them (ground in a coffee grinder) and adding a tablespoon more water. I’ve not tried this substitution, but that’s what I’d try first!

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  24. Teri Wentworth -

    December 2, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    What about nutritional value?

    Calories?
    Carbs?

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  25. kory kulick -

    January 7, 2021 at 3:48 pm

    What are the carbs in this recipe?

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