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Vegan Chickpea Noodles with tomato sauce. Grain-free Pasta! Gluten-free, soy-free, gum-free, egg-free recipe. Easy, and ready within minutes.
Chickpea Noodles people!Â
These noodles are just chickpea flour and water. They use a similar process as chickpea tofu, just spread out the custard instead. Let it set for 15 minutes, slice it into desired shapes. These noodles are gluten, grain, starch, yeast, nut, dairy, soy and egg-free! If you are wondering where they came from. Think fusion Khandvi 🙂
The easy garlic tomato sauce works perfectly with the noodles or any pasta of choice. Garlicky, slightly spicy and versatile.Â
The batter also can be used to make chickpea tofu. Drop the custard into a pan, spread with a spatula, let it set for an hour. Cube and store.Â
Yum to the yum!
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Steps:
Cook the blended chickpea mixture until a thick custard.
Spread the custard and spread using a spatula or by rolling between parchment.Â
Cool for 15 minutes. Then cut into strips using a Pizza cutter.Â
Make the pasta sauce.Â
Serve warm sauce with noodles with nooch or pepita parm and black pepper.Â
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Vegan Chickpea Noodles with Garlic Tomato Sauce
Ingredients Â
For the chickpea noodles:
- 1/2 cup chickpea flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp turmeric, optional
- 1/4 tsp garlic or onion granules
- 1/4 tsp thyme, optional
For the garlic tomato sauce:
- 3 1/2 cups chopped tomatoes, or 28 oz can diced
- 5 cloves of garlic, use more or less to preference
- 1 tsp dried herbs of choice, like basil, thyme or use 1 tbsp fresh herbs
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
- 1 tsp sugar or maple syrup to taste
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste, optional
InstructionsÂ
For chickpea noodles:
- Blend all the ingredients until smooth. Pour the blended mixture into a pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally for 2-3 minutes until it starts to get lumpy. Mix well and continue to cook for 2 minutes, stir frequently. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue to cook for another 2 minutes, stir occasionally.
- Drop this hot custard on parchment or foil. Using a flat spatula spread the custard to form a very thin rectangle. You can also roll it out between 2 parchments.
- Let it cool for 15 minutes. Use a pizza cutter cut noodles or other shapes. Store refrigerated for upto 3 days. Serve with tomato sauce. Top with pepita parmesan or nutritional yeast and black pepper. Can also be served with other pasta sauces or asian sauces.
- For variation: Add 2 tablespoons non dairy yogurt to the chickpea batter. the yogurt helps make softer and sturdier noodles. These noodles are best served room temperature, cold or lightly warmed in sauce. If you heat them directly in a skillet or in hot water, they will disintegrate.
For the sauce:
- Blend 1/2 cup tomato, garlic, pepper flakes, and herbs into a smooth puree.
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Pour the tomato garlic mixture into the skillet and cook for 5 minutes or until fragrant and thick.
- Add the rest of the tomatoes, salt, sugar, cover and cook over low-medium heat for 15 minutes. Taste and adjust salt, sugar and herbs. Serve or store.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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3 and a half cups of tomatoes or 3 x half cups? Fresh or tinned? Thanks to anyone who can help.
3.5 cups of chopped tomatoes. I use fresh but tinned would work too.
I tried to make it and it had set to dry for over 40 minutes and when cut it does not keep a shape. The supposed middle takes good though. Do you think it was not cooked long enough. Did you use an electric or gas stove.?
Margaret
Were the noodles still wet to touch? If they were, then the mixture needed more cooking. What flour did you use?
you can use more flour (or less water). These are delicate noodles, so a lot of tossing will break them. Depending on the thickness of the spread , even and thicker noodles are more likely to hold the shape.
Oh my goodness, I made these last night and they were seriously delicious!!
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, I think it may become a bit of a staple in my household now..
Awesome!! so glad you loved it!!
Richa, Have you ever used the sheets as lasagna noodles instead of cut noodles?
no i havent. They might work if you bake for 20-30 mins.
Wow, what a cool idea. This reminds me of Marcella Hazan’s recipe for frittata noodles, one of my pre-vegan favorites. Can’t wait to try.
Hi there! I’ve made the chickpea flour pasta yesterday but unfortunately it remained custardy.. I could not form any kind of pasta strings with it! What went wrong ? Could you help me ..?
Thank you very much.
Ann
Hi Ann, the chickpea flour batter cooks up to a custard and then you spread it out on parchment into a thin layer. use a spatula like you are spreading a frosting. then let it sit on the counter or a cool place. After 15 to 20 minutes, the custard will set and you can cut it up. the noodles are softer than regular noodles.
What exactly happened after the chickpea mixture cooked up to a custard?
This looks amazing!!Thanks for sharing.
You say the recipe can be made yeast free by omitting the nutritional yeast, but the ingredients listed read:
chickpea flour
water
lemon juice
tsp salt
turmeric (optional)
garlic or onion granules
thyme (optional)
Did you mean that the nutritional yeast would be a topping?
the nutritional yeast garnish. it can be omitted.
Can the chickpeas noodles be heated??? Just wondering how they would be with melted earth balance and vegan parm???
they can be heated lightly. if you heat them too much they might start to get custardy.
Love the recipes!!!
what an amazing idea! i can’t wait to try this.
these are quite simple Caitlin, give them a whirl!
So when my partner and I first started dating, I’d always ask him what those Gujurati pasta pinwheels (khandvi) were. He seemed confused, but I think that’s because in his mind they weren’t pasta. To me, this makes perfect sense.
lol. yep exactly! 🙂