Cassava Flour Pasta Dough {Paleo & Nut-Free}
I didn’t want to create another pasta dough recipe, since I was already very pleased with my Perfect Paleo Pasta BUT a reader reached out that her son has a nut allergy and needed help with a recipe for him.
I jumped at the opportunity to help her out.
And I gotta admit, this may be my new go-to pasta dough recipe, it’s seriously that good and so easy.
The secret to this nut-free, paleo pasta dough is using one of my favorite grain free flours; Cassava Flour. Also known as yuca, cassava is a delicious root vegetable that becomes the perfect alternative for wheat when dried and ground. The most commonly used version of cassava is tapioca, which is the bleached and extracted starch of the cassava flour.
Cassava Flour, on the other hand, is a whole food; the entire root, minus the peel. A Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, AND Nut-Free flour with the taste and texture of wheat!
There is only one brand of cassava flour I use; Otto’s Cassava Flour. It is the very highest quality cassava flour available. Other cassava flours are hand peeled and sun dried. That sounds romantic, but unfortunately hand peeling misses small pieces of peel, resulting in grittiness or a “sand-like”crunch in the finished product.
If that’s not bad enough, sun drying presents its own issues. Because drying cassava in the sun takes so long, the cassava flour ferments and takes on a sour, musty smell and taste.
Otto’s Cassava Flour is thoroughly peeled, flash dried and ground 5x into a beautifully clean smelling and tasting flour that you can count on again and again. I’ve used it to make many other of my most popular; Perfect Paleo Tortillas, Cassava Flour Biscuits, Buffalo Cauliflower and Saltine Crackers.
Making my Cassava Pasta Dough is as simple as measure & mix. There’s no complicated set of instructions or difficult to find ingredients. The dough can be rolled out by hand or using a pasta machine or pasta attachment for your mixer.
Cassava Flour Pasta Dough {Paleo & Nut-Free}
Ingredients
- 1 cup cassava flour
- 1 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 2 large Egg(s), Organic Pasture Raised
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil
- 2+ tablespoons Chicken Bone Broth or water
Instructions
- Combine flour and salt, mix well.
- Add eggs, oil and broth to your dry ingredients and mix/knead until it forms a smooth dough*. I recommend using a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let rest for 5 minutes at room temperature. It can also be stored in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours before rolling out.
- Roll out as desired into pasta, noodles or can be used to make ravioli, manicotti or lasagna just as you would any other fresh pasta dough.
- Add fresh pasta to salted/boiling water and cook for about 5** minutes or until tender. Drain and serve immediately with the sauce of you choice or add to soup. Enjoy.
Notes
*Because there is no way for each of us to have the exact same size eggs or measure our flours the exact same (unless we are weighing them) - When mixing your pasta dough, if it does not come together into a smooth dough, add more broth (1/2 teaspoon at a time). It's too sticky, add a sprinkle of additional cassava flour.
**The actual length of time for cooking will be determined by the thickness of your pasta.
Nutrition
Calories: 208kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 651mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 153IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 2mg
Servings: 4 Servings
Calories: 208kcal
I’m curious if anyone thinks this recipe would work ok for ramen noodles?
Like through an extruder? I have used one previously with good results.
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This looks so similar to a classic egg noodle recipe. I see you use it immediately upon rolling and cutting. Is there a reason the noodles don’t need to dry first?
When we omit gluten-flour the noodles become more delicate. Delicate noodles, when dried, are more easily broken.
Think of gluten as a durable stretchy glue. Gluten-free flours/starches properties are a less durable.
Feel free to experiment with drying some and please comment back with which worked better for you, in your kitchen ❤️
Hii, was wondering if I can make this recipe without the egg? What can i substitute the egg with? as I am dairy free
Hey Vanessa – Eggs are not Dairy. Dairy comes from cows, products like cheese, butter, milk, cream….
I have not tested this recipe without eggs, but I would start with an egg replacer. You can google different ways to substitute eggs in recipes. If you find something that works or does not, please let us know!
Hi!!! What if we ferment the cassava before drying the chips???
I’m sorry but I do not understand your question. This is a pasta post
Hi, thank you for this recipe. First time I succed a keto pasta. I think next time, I’ll a little bit of oil instead of water, to make it easier to pass by the pasta machine to have lasagna or ravioli sheets, or even to have longer fettuchini, as I was not able to pass it through the machine like wheat flour pasta. What do you think?
For most people, cassava isn’t low enough in carbs to be considered keto. Myself included. My keto template is <20g carbs per day and this pasta is 25g carbs per serving.
I have no issues with using a pasta roller with this recipe. Just dust the machine with additional cassava like you would when making traditional pasta.
You can reduce the glycemic index of the cassava flour by reducing the cassava flour to 2/3 and replacing 1/3 of it with green plantain flour, which is a resistant starch. (NOTE: This ratio also makes an awesome tortilla with some lime.)
I look forward to experimenting with more of your recipes. Just found this site today.
I’m excited to try this recipe. Is it possible to make a large batch and freeze some for another day?
It’s a delicate dough that’s best fresh but it can be frozen and used but will be more fragile.
Can you replace the eggs with something in vegan form?
Thanks!
I don’t develop egg-free or vegan recipes, so I am not able to recommend a suitable alternative.
What is the carb count on these noodles?
The nutrition info is at the end of the recipe card. There is roughly 95g if carbs in the whole recipe, cassava is NOT a low carbohydrate food.
I would like to make lasagna. Do the lasagna noodles need to be precooked?
Nope! They will cook while baking
Hi
Can you swap avocado oil with olive oil, or other oil?
Thanks
Avocado and oil can be used interchangeably
The dough was very sticky and I couldn’t put it through the pasta maker. I ended up rolling it out and cutting it. Even rolling it out, the dough was sticky. Any suggestions?
Add more cassava. We all measure flours differently, some adjustments may be necessary.
Just made it and WOW! Much to my surprise, it held up in the boiling water and got more substantial! I made cavatelli which are really easy to make, but I’m going to try the pasta maker this weekend. I used olive oil instead of avocado oil, which was fine. Thank you for this awesome and easy recipe!
Taste-wise; does it have similar flavor to fresh cassava? Or does the processing make it fairly flavour free and the flavour comes from the egg and broth more. How would you compare the flavour to say, conventional semolina dough? I do find wheat pasta to have a taste which I once enjoyed. GF flours have the correct texture but not the flavour. Just curious how you think it stacks up? I do love the flavour of fresh cassava cooked in mild broth but to think of it paired with say a tomato sauce…I’m not convinced it would mesh. Maybe this pasta is better suited to a more naked type sauce like butter/cream; etc.
What if I cannot find Otto’s brand cassava flour? I am not going to buy flour online at all.
Can I use bob’s red mill cassava flour instead? I do not want to stir the flour before is use it anyway. I do not have a pasta attachment for my mixer , but I do have an electric pasta machine that mixes for me; I will use that instead. I do like vital farms grass fed butter I will be using that.
Please let me know by e-mailing me at midnight0675@frontier.com
Heather, I have found that Otto’s is superior in quality, you are welcome to use any brand you would like and modify the recipe as you feel see fit for your unique circumstances. Good luck and let us know what works for you.
I can confirm that you can’t use Bob’s Red Mill, or a few other brands of casava flour either. They are fine like cornstarch and turn into a useless glob of non-newtonian fluid which doesn’t hold together at all. I assume this Ottos brand has a coarser flour-like texture.
Can you roll this recipe as a gnocchi and use it in a chicken and dumpling recipe? Thanks
I have a wonderful grain free gnocchi recipe, so I’ve never tried this.
How many people does one recipe feed? Excited to try making this for my family.
That depends on serving size. Generally 4-6 average portions
Just found this recipe last week and tried it this evening – so easy and so delicious. Thank you for posting!
How does leftover pasta taste the next day? Other gluten free pasta taste horrible and too gummy.
It’s too yummy, we don’t have leftovers!
I’m having a hard time making this. I’ve used everything in the recipe exactly and it just falls apart. I tried it a second time using one additional egg thinking my farm eggs were too small. Same result. Any suggestions?
Chelsi – When I hear that my recipe isn’t working for someone I take it very seriously. It’s 8:50 on Monday morning and, knowing that my girls are laying smaller eggs right now, I honestly made a batch of dough EXACTLY as my recipe is written and my dough came together just as expected (you can pop over to Instagram and watch my IG story to see it in really life) Otto’s Cassava Flour, Sea Salt, Eggs, Avocado Oil and Chicken Bone broth are being used? No substitutions? Same brand Cassava? I mixed my dough by hand today but have used my food processor and kitchen aid mixer with dough attachments in the past. I hate to say it but I honestly sounds like you’re subbing something or reading the recipe incorrectly…
I followed the recipe exactly. I grated the dough with the large side of a box grater to resemble German noodles for soup. Turned out awesome and so easy. Thanks
This recipe worked perfectly. I used Thrive cassava flour; homemade veggie broth for liquid; mixed by pulsing in food processor; rolled out by hand by flouring parchment with tapioca and covering with a second sheet. The dough cut easily into wide fettucine strips, with a very sharp knife, even when rolled paper-thin, except for the very smallest edges, which crumpled, but still cooked just fine. I’d never made pasta before but I love Hayley’s saltine recipe so hoped I could maage it… the feedback was that it is as good or better than normal homemade pasta– super soft and just lovely. It took about 4.5 minutes to get tender, then I threw in a pan with sauteed shitakes, garlic, evoo, balsamic, and added baby spinach. Soooo gentle and tender. Put on weekly rotation. Thanks Hayley! Photos of this dish are circling the globe with an adorable frenzy!
I live in Canada and not able to get the brands of ingredients from your recipe, “World’s Best Paleo Pasta Dough”.
However, I am able to get ingredients for this and able to successfully made pasta by following your recipe. The result is great. Thanks a lot!
I grew up making pasta the traditional way but now that I’m seeking the gluten-free route, I gave this recipe a shot last night! I followed the recipe exact. The dough was SUPER delicate and kept breaking as I ran it through the roller attachment on my machine- to say it was a test of patience would be an understatement. Is it supposed to be like that?
it is a more delicate dough but not difficult to work with. Are you working the dough through the rollers starting with the thickest setting, running it through each several times before advancing and not going too thin?
Thank you for the nice recipe. I was wondering if I could use millet flour instead of cassava. Has anyone ever tried cassava?
I’m curious why you would ask to sub the main ingredient in a recipe? Why not just seek out a millet pasta recipe instead? Cassava is a great flour and works perfectly in this recipe, I’ve never made pasta with millet
This was really yummy. I don’t have a pasta maker and had a hard time making noodles. I ended up making little balls, kind of like gnocchi. I will definitely be coming back to this recipe, thanks!
Have you used a ravioli attachment on a pasta machine with this before?
I’ve never had success with the ravioli attachment working even close to correctly, this or traditional dough. I just roll dough and use a ravioli form the manual way.
Enjoy your recipes so much! Looking forward to making Lasagna. Which of your two pasta recipes do you find works best in a roller pasta machine. They both look good.
I lean towards the paleo pasta.
Thank you!
I tried this for the first time today, in fact, this is the first time I’ve ever made pasta before, and it worked perfectly! I was rather doubtful in trying this and I have to say I was very impressed. You are a saint for responding to all of the same comments and questions over and over. Thanks so much for sharing!!
I’m curious about how your noodles turned out that color. Mine turned out more of a drab, grey-brown color. The dough was slightly greasy to the touch and had poor structure, causing it to be very fragile and prone to breaking apart. the flavor was good but the mouth feel was slightly “pastey” when chewing. I am going to try this using xanthan gum to help give it bind and structure.
the vibrant yellow/gold comes from the nutrient rich pastured egg yolks from our back yard chickens. What brand of cassava did you use? The brand I use and recommend is linked to in the recipe.
Can you dry it for storage?
Grain Free Pasta doughs are much more delicate, I would suggest making it fresh.
Can you freeze the dough?
I’ve frozen raw-ravioli and manicotti.
Thank you! ?
hi there
Can you substitute eggs to make it AIP?
You are welcome to use my recipe as a starting point to create your own, let us know what works for you.
Did you find a way to make it without eggs?
I would really like to know if an AIP version of this worked as well!
I used this recipe but subbed for gelatin eggs. I was too lazy to roll out anything so I made gnocchi/dumpling type balls. I’ve tried other recipes that ARE AIP and had zero luck with them… this worked great! I did have to add a lot of broth (also made with water but I think broth tasted better!) but I think that’s because of the gelatin egg. These weren’t gummy textured at all, and as long as you let them cool off a bit I found this recipe to be best for leftovers too! The others make it all stick together in a giant blob.
Chia eggs are. A great sub. Is that AIP though?
Nope. No seeds for AIP.
Can this dough be used for pierogi…miss them since Mom is gone.
yep
DO YOU HAVE THE CARBS & SUGAR COUNT PER SERVING?.
Nope. But you can calculate it yourself if you are tracking macros. I like THIS app.
Hubby is allergic to avocado, so can we substitue olive oil?
Yep!
can be Coconut oil?
It should work ok.