How to Make Gluten-Free Pasta With Only Two Ingredients (2024)

Making homemade gluten-free pasta with two ingredients takes only a few minutes to do and tastes like you spent all day cooking. This pasta has the perfect texture – a texture that you likely miss and crave since you started eating gluten-free. This post contains affiliate links. Please read my disclosures.

Chances are you miss the taste and texture of pasta since you gave up gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and sometimes oats. Pasta just isn’t the same without gluten.

Whenever I feel sad about pasta, I bust out my amazing pasta machine and make homemade gluten-free pasta. It tastes so good and makes me feel normal again.

You might think making homemade pasta is hard to do, but all you need is two simple ingredients: gluten-free flour and eggs. The process takes about 20-30 minutes to create beautiful homemade pasta dough.

And once you get more comfortable rolling out the dough or putting it through your pasta machine, making homemade gluten-free pasta will become a weekly occurance!

Introducing the Pasta Machine!

If you’re serious about making fresh, homemade gluten-free pasta, you’ll want to invest in a pasta machine. Be sure to make this YOUR dedicated gluten-free pasta machine so it doesn’t get contaminated by bits of gluten. Remember, a pasta machine can’t be shared for making regular and gluten-free pasta.

I own an electric Marcato Atlas Pasta Machine, and I love it. My mother-in-law bought it for me for my birthday the year after I was diagnosed with celiac disease. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

You can get a less-expensive manual pasta machine with a crank, but it will be harder to work with, especially given that gluten-free pasta cracks easily. My pasta machine has a motor that lets me gently glide the pasta sheets through the machine with little effort or breakage.

You don’t have to own a pasta machine to make homemade gluten-free pasta, though. If you own a Kitchenaid Standing Mixer, you can purchase the pasta attachment and use that to cut the pasta into beautiful strands.

And you can even cut the pasta into strands by hand with a knife or pizza cutter. The strips may not be as thin or even as they would be if you used a pasta machine, but it’ll still work.

Ingredients For My 2-Ingredient Pasta

It’s hard to believe that this recipe requires only two ingredients, but all you need is three large eggs + 200 grams of a 1-to-1 gluten-free flour blend.

I use Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 Gluten-Free Flour blend, which always works well. Others have made this recipe using King Arthur Measure-for-Measure Gluten-Free Flourand Cup 4 Cup All Purpose Gluten-Free Flour. Your gluten-free flour blend should include xanthan gum; if not, add one teaspoon of it.

Making Gluten-Free Pasta

On a floured surface (I use a Silpat mat), add the gluten-free flour and create a well in the center of the flour. Add the eggs to the well.

Next, use a fork to incorporate the flour bit by bit as you scramble the eggs. Once the dough comes together, use your hands to mix the dough and form it into a sticky dough ball.

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Divide the dough ball into four sections to make it easier to work with. Roll out each of the four sections into long strips using a rolling pin. This will make it thin enough to run through the pasta machine successfully.

Feed each pasta sheet through the pasta machine twice, first on the #1 setting and then on the #2 setting, to get the sheets as thin as possible.

To make the dough easier to work with, I recommend cutting the sheet in half before running it through the pasta machine for round #2.

Cut off any frayed edges so the pasta sheets. Removing the frayed edges from the pasta sheets will ensure the pasta strands come out even and beautiful.

Feed each sheet through the pasta machine to cut it into the desired strands.

Place nests of the cut pasta on a floured tray until you’re ready to cook the whole batch.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and add the pasta. Be sure to separate the pasta before putting it into the water so you don’t wind up with clumps.

Boil the pasta for 1-2 minutes, then drain and serve. The noodles cook quickly, so watch them carefully.

How Do They Taste?

The pasta is chewy and doughy, offering that gluten-y texture you miss when you’re on a gluten-free diet. It tastes like homemade pasta and tastes as good as any pasta, even pasta made with gluten.

I think these homemade gluten-free pasta noodles taste fabulous when topped with a bit of olive oil and salt.

You could also top them with your favorite jarred or homemade marinara sauce, pesto sauce, or a garlic-butter sauce like the one I used to cover my homemade gnocchi.

Other Ways to Use Two-Ingredient Gluten-Free Pasta Dough

This from-scratch pasta dough can be used to create a variety of gluten-free foods.

Specifically, I used it to create gluten-free pumpkin ravioli and my homemade gluten-free kreplach (Jewish dumplings).

You could also use it to make lasagna, perogies, dumplings, and any dish that calls for pasta sheets or wonton wrappers.

Additional Recipes

You might enjoy these recipes, too:

• Gluten-Free Pumpkin Ravioli: I love using my two-ingredient gluten-free pasta dough to make these delicious pumpkin ravioli. Don’t like pumpkin? Add any filling you desire.
• Gluten-Free Kreplach: Kreplach are meat-filled Jewish dumplings similar to wontons or perogies.
• Five Ingredient Gluten-Free Bagels: This recipe will have you reaching for the smear in no time!
• Gluten-Free Egg Noodles from Scratch: A slight variant on this recipe if you’re craving egg
• noodles.
• Slow Cooker Turkey Meatballs: These meatballs taste great over your homemade pasta, or serve them over steamed spaghetti squash.
• Gluten-Free Pumpkin Gnocchi: If you like pasta, I have a feeling you’ll love these delicious potato-pasta dumplings too.