“How beneficial it is for people to simplygood food! How much kinder, more cheerful and joyful it makes them. Better than any medicine" (From the trilogy "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins) In fact, simple food is not an indicator of a meager menu. Agree that the same borscht is not considered a sophisticated dish, it takes a lot of time to prepare, but it remains a simple food. And why? Because it is prepared from the simplest and most useful products. By the way, some really useful products are not in favor today for some reason. For example, noodles. Firstly, we cooked noodles long before the appearance of factory-made pasta. Secondly, the same ready-made spaghetti and vermicelli made from durum wheat will not cause any harm to the figure. And thirdly, if you are not sure of the quality of store-bought noodles, you can make them yourself. Yes, yes, homemade noodles are no worse than store-bought, if, of course, you know the recipes and methods of its preparation. So, this is the recipe for homemade noodles that we offer you. And don’t be afraid that the process is labor-intensive. In fact, everything is not as difficult as it may seem. However, to be convinced of this, you just need to take and cook homemade noodles. Let’s try?
Noodles for first courses
Let's start with the simplest thing - master the recipe for noodles that can be used to season homemade soup. It's quick to make, and the dough for such noodles is very simple. Ingredients:
- Kilogram of wheat flour;
- 2 eggs;
- Salt;
- Water until the desired consistency of the dough.
Preparation:Sift the flour and pour it into a bowl. Mix it with a couple of pinches of salt and make a mound in which we make a small depression. Break the eggs into this depression and start adding warm water, kneading the dough. The dough should be very tough, and you need to knead it properly. After that, cover the dough with cling film or a towel and leave it for about an hour to rise. During this time, the gluten will swell, the dough will become softer and more pliable. After an hour, sprinkle the table with flour, put the dough on it, knead it and roll it into a very thin layer. Sprinkle the dough layer with flour too and roll it into a roll. And now the most interesting part. Take a sharp knife and start cutting the dough into noodles. To do this, place the blade across the roll and slightly diagonally. First cut from one corner of the roll, then from the other. And so, gradually shred the entire roll of dough. Spread the chopped noodles on a floured cutting board and leave to dry.
Egg noodles
Traditional egg noodle recipe.And it got its name due to the large amount of egg yolks included in the dough. It is quite easy to make such noodles, the only difficulty is to knead the very tough dough. Ingredients:
- Flour wheaten - 400 grams;
- Raw egg yolks - 8 pieces;
- Vegetable oil - 50 grams;
- Salt - half a teaspoon;
- Water boiled - 1 glass.
Preparation:Sift the flour, pour it into a bowl, gather it into a mound and make a depression in it. Pour the egg yolks into another bowl, add salt, vegetable oil and a tablespoon of cold boiled water. Beat everything with a fork or whisk until light foam. Now pour this mixture into the flour, stirring it first with a spoon and then with your hands. When the dough is thick enough, transfer it to a floured table and continue kneading. Remember that the dough should be very steep, so you can add flour if necessary. The steeper the dough, the tastier the homemade noodles will be. Wrap the finished dough in cling film and leave for about half an hour. After that, put it back on a floured table and roll it out into a thin layer. Again, the thinner the layer of dough, the better the noodles will be. To prevent the dough from sticking to the table, you need to turn the layer while rolling it out. Now it's time to make the noodles. It's best to use a special rolling knife (a pizza knife will do), but you can also cut the noodles with a regular knife. It doesn't really matter whether you cut the dough into short or long strips. It's much more important that the strips are narrow. Although you can also make wide noodles. So, cut the dough into strips of the same width, put them on a cutting board sprinkled with flour and leave to dry. Another way to cut the noodles is as follows. First, cut the dough rolled into a layer into strips about twenty centimeters wide, then roll them into rolls (along the length of the strip) and start making the noodles. Simply cut the rolled rolls into pieces across the cross-section. The width of these pieces will be the width of the noodles, and the noodles themselves will be quite long. Note: If you are going to make noodles for future use, then they need to be thoroughly dried - until brittle. After this, it is sprinkled with flour and stored in linen bags.
Green noodles
Many people are genuinely interested in greenItalian noodles that you can see in stores. Meanwhile, making such noodles at home is very, very simple. And here is the recipe for its preparation. Ingredients:
- Flour 400 grams;
- Eggs - 2 pieces;
- Spinach - 200 grams;
- Salt - half a teaspoon;
- Olive oil - 2 teaspoons.
Preparation:The spinach must first be boiled, then mashed or blended. Now we start making green noodles. Sift the flour into a bowl, make a well in it and break two eggs into it. Put the spinach puree on top, sprinkle with salt and pour in olive oil. Now we start kneading the dough, achieving a tight but flexible consistency. And then everything according to the rules: sprinkle the table with flour, roll out the dough, cut into strips. By the way, such noodles can also be made for future use.
Carrot noodles
If you approach the preparation of homemade noodles creatively, you can make them not only green, but also pink, red or yellow. Here, for example, is a recipe for yellow carrot noodles. Ingredients:
- Carrots - 2-3 pieces;
- Flour - 3-4 glasses;
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon;
- Salt - half a teaspoon;
- Eggs - 3 pieces;
- Butter - 1 tablespoon.
Preparation:Let's start making yellow noodles by preparing carrots. To do this, wash them, peel them and cut them into pieces. Put a saucepan with water on the fire, wait until the water boils, and season the carrots. Boil them until soft, remove from the saucepan and cool. Turn the cooled carrots into puree by rubbing through a sieve or chopping in a blender. Then add sugar, salt, softened butter and eggs and beat. Now knead the dough, gradually adding flour to the carrot puree. The dough, as in the previous cases, needs to be steep, but flexible. The finished dough remains to be rolled out into a layer and cut from it noodles of the desired width and length. Now you know how to make homemade noodles. Agree that the recipe is quite simple, even if these are not simple, but colored noodles. By the way, the basic egg noodle recipe can be used to make its colored versions. For example, beetroot juice, which can be used instead of water, will give it a pink color. But you can diversify the recipe by mixing flour with cocoa powder. Then you will get delicious chocolate noodles. In short, making noodles is a fascinating process, so don’t be afraid to experiment. It is important to have a basic recipe, and how you modernize it depends only on your imagination. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit! We recommend reading:
