It would seem that why start dough for homemade noodles, when any pasta is not presented in any store, and you can choose anything - at least for a side dish, at least for the first dish. And, nevertheless, when suddenly you want noodles on chicken stock, then factory pasta is not good - well, it’s not working out, not at home!
What stops us from making homemade noodle dough? The laborious kneading process? There is such a thing, but actually it’s not so difficult. Of course, if you are going to prepare noodles for the future (as our grandmothers did), then I agree that preparing the dough for homemade noodles and further slicing will take a lot of time. But thank you, we are not living in hungry times, and you can get the test just as much as you are going to use right now, but if it works out a little more, it won’t be lost either.
Here is my recipe for homemade noodle dough . The most delicious noodles are made from sifted white flour of the highest grade, eggs and salt. But kneading dough for homemade noodles on some eggs is really very difficult, so many, including myself, add water to the batch.
I do this: I take about half a glass of chilled boiled water and break a raw egg into it, shake it, add salt and, after pouring a small amount of flour into a bowl, add a mixture of egg and water. I make a rather weak batch with a fork. Then, gradually adding flour, I continue to knead and bring the dough to a steeper state, and then I knead the resulting kolobok on the table, continuing to add flour to the board. The dough will gradually absorb more and more flour, and as a result it should turn out to be tough, therefore, to knead properly, you need to knead it on the board for a long time until your hands get tired.
I check the readiness of the test as follows: I cut the bun with a knife and see if there are voids left on the slices. If the dough is porous, then you still need to roll up a little, if homogeneous - then enough.
The finished dough should be allowed to lie down a bit (about 15 minutes), covered with something so that it does not become weathered, with a bowl, for example. During this time, flour gluten will disperse even better, and the dough will become elastic. And after that, you still need to mash the dough on a board with flour.
I emphasize that the dough for homemade noodles should be cool - this is a prerequisite, otherwise your noodles will subsequently boil quickly and become sour.
Now you need to roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a large thin cake. It will also require physical effort, but you should try to roll the cake as thin as possible, ideally if it is 1-1.5 mm thick. Do not forget to constantly add flour under the rolling pin and on the table. I can’t say for sure how much flour will be needed in the end - 2 cups, or maybe more, I just put in front of me a whole package - how much will go, so much will go.
If the dough is quite a lot, then divide it into 2-3 parts and roll out a few cakes with a smaller diameter.
Before you start cutting noodles, these cakes need to be dried a little. In our apartment the humidity is low, and everything dries just instantly - while you are rolling out one cake, the second has already reached the standard, and you can cut it. If it’s damp in your house, leave it to lie down a little longer (some even dry like laundry - on the ropes), but most importantly, do not dry out and do not forget to spray the flour on top.
We cut the noodles to your liking - if you want to get long ribbons, first roll the tortilla into a roll, then do a cross cutting into strips of 4-5 mm. And if you want to get small noodles, then immediately cut the layer into strips 4-5 cm wide and then, applying these rags from the dough one on top of the other, (again, pouring flour so as not to stick together) cut the thin noodles into 1.5-2 mm
Before putting ready-made homemade noodles into the broth (if you are cooking the first dish), you need to shake off the excess flour from it, and if it is dried, just put it in a sieve and shake it, as if sifting, then your broth will not be cloudy, and you will have a tasty homemade noodles!
Good luck