Yorkshire Pasta

Did you know that you can now buy pasta made with British wheat, and sold in plastic-free packaging? Also view posts on simple vegan pasta recipes. Serve with plastic-free pasta and vegan Parmesan.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many ingredients like onion, garlic, onions, citrus and spices are unsafe near animal friends). Just bin onion and garlic scraps (also citrus and rhubarb) due to acids that could harm compost bin creatures).

Yorkshire pasta saice

Yorkshire Pasta is an artisan pasta made from locally-milled wheat, and sold in plastic-free packaging. This is a quality pasta recommended by top chefs, made by pressing the wheat pasta dough through bronze dies, rather than teflon. This results in superior pasta with a rough surface, perfect to absorb pasta sauce.

This pasta is then dried at low temperatures, to create deep flavour. The drying process (bespoke for each shape) removes excess moisture from the dough, to lock in the delicious taste. This also means that each piece of pasta will stay tasty for up to 2 years.

Yorkshire pasta is packed in paper bags, specially developed to be not just easy to recycle, but sealed by hand with two signature metal fastenings. These not only make the bags look good, but help to avoid plastic. And as all these pastas are egg-free, they are suitable for vegans.

The range includes:

  • Fusilli (good for vegan bolognese)
  • Mezze Maniche Rigate (for any dish, due to deep ridges and hollow centre)
  • Tortiglioni (deep groves and swirls, for luxury sauces)
  • Conchiglie Rigate (‘shells’ for lighter sauces)
  • Penne Rigate (ideal for baked pastsa dishes)

Bronze-Cut Spelt Pasta from Cumbria

northern pasta

Northern Pasta (Cumbria) is an award-winning brand of spelt pasta that is homegrown from local crops. Spelt is not gluten-free, but an ancient relative of wheat that is easier to digest. Again the bronze-cut ensures a rough surface, to cling to your pasta sauce.

Sold in plastic-free packaging, this brand is supporting local farmers, while using traditional Italian methods to create fine artisan food. Founded by a husband-and-wife, this small firm also supports regenerative farming methods to grow the spelt.

Sold in 6 shapes, unlike supermarket pastas, this brand is much easier on the tummy. Supermarket pasta is often bright yellow, due to drying at high temperatures that burns the starch. But this pasta is slow-dried to retain nutrition and digestibility. If you suffer bloating or fatigue after eating pasta, try this brand instead!

Other Good Brands of Plastic-Free Pasta

Mr Organic pasta

Mr Organic is an Italian food brand that makes all items organic and vegan. Its range of pastas are now even better, as they are all sold in easy-to-recycle paper packaging. So stock up, so you always have some plastic-free pasta to cook all your vegan Italian meals.

These pastas are made from organic Italian durum wheat from ‘the granary of Italy’ (Canolsa di Puglia) and slow-dried to retain flavour. Most are bronze-cut (extruded through metal plates for a porous texture, to grip as much sauce as possible). The range includes:

Biona spelt pasta

Paper-packaged pantry basics (all its pasta, rice and lentils are now in paper packaging).

Organic Plastic-Free Pasta for Children

safari spelt pasta

Safari Spelt Pasta offers organic German-grown spelt flour that is gentle on smaller tummies. This organic pasta is quick to cook and is sold in a plastic-free box. Or choose dinosaur organic wheat pasta.

dinosaur wheat pasta

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