Homemade noodles are rarely made these days –Few people want to mess with dough and fuss with making noodles when there is a huge selection of pasta in stores. By the way, manufacturers even offer us various types of special homemade noodles for soups. But there are some dishes for which ready-made pasta is not suitable. For example, in order to cook a delicious and real chicken soup with homemade noodles, you first need to cook these noodles. And for many other soups you need soft and fresh homemade noodles. The classic recipe for dumpling or vareniki dough is quite suitable for making noodles. You can also use the recipe for choux pastry, but in any case, an egg should be added to such dough. Otherwise, the noodles will boil over in the soup. By the way, it can be prepared for future use and stored dry. To do this, the noodles are left on the table or on a cutting board until dry, and then put into a bag. In addition, homemade noodles can be frozen (like dumplings), and they will taste like freshly made.
A bit of history
Actually, for Russian national cuisine noodlesand soups made from it are not native dishes. We politely borrowed this dish from the Tatars and sincerely began to consider it our national dish. However, Tatar cuisine does not have exclusive rights to soup with homemade noodles. Because hot dishes with pieces of dough have long been prepared in almost all countries. Judge for yourself:
- Jangchi guksu (Korea) - noodles in seaweed broth;
- Assam laksa (Malaysia) - sour fish soup with rice noodles;
- Dandanmian (China) - spicy noodle soup with preserved vegetables;
- Kuytiew (Cambodia) - noodle soup with pork broth, shrimp, pork liver and meatballs;
- Thukpa (Tibet) - noodles in beef broth with green onions and spinach;
- Bun Rieu (Vietnam) - beef broth soup with rice noodles, pork blood, tomatoes and tofu;
- Champon (Japan) - noodles in hot chicken broth with vegetables, pork and seafood;
- Ugro (Tajikistan) - lamb and pea noodle soup;
In short, all soups prepared with noodlesIt is simply impossible to list them. In Europe, for example, cold soups with noodles are still popular. In northern countries, noodles are cooked in milk. In Southeast Asia, they prefer soups with rice noodles and seafood. But in our country, they came up with the idea of cooking delicious, aromatic noodles with mushrooms. In general, it is impossible to embrace the immensity, so we offer you only a small part of national recipes for soup with homemade noodles.
Basic recipe for homemade noodles
This recipe can be considered basic. And you can make this soup with any meat - it depends solely on your preferences. Ingredients:
- 1 kilogram of meat;
- 1 head of onions;
- 1 carrot;
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil.
For the test:
- 350 grams of flour;
- 1 egg;
- 70 grams of water;
- Black pepper;
- Salt and bay leaf.
Preparation:First, you need to prepare the noodles themselves, for which we use a recipe for regular unleavened dough. So, take the wheat flour and sift it directly onto the table or into a bowl and collect it in a mound. Make a small hole at the top of the resulting mound. Break the egg into a glass, then add water, salt and mix thoroughly until smooth. Pour the resulting mixture into the hole in the flour and knead the tough dough, which should be smooth and elastic. Generously sprinkle the table with flour, roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut into strips and leave them to dry. The broth can be cooked in advance, but if you have fresh meat or chicken, it will cook quickly. So, wash the meat, cut into pieces and cook until tender. To make the broth tasty, pour cold water over the meat and cook it over low heat in an open saucepan. By the way, the broth from the meat on the bone turns out richer. Do not forget to periodically remove the scum, but do not add water. When the broth is ready, make the soup dressing. Peel and finely chop the onion and carrot. You can grate the carrot on a coarse grater, but it is better to cut it into strips or thin circles. Put the frying pan on the fire and pour in the vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, put the carrot in it and fry until lightly golden. Then add the chopped onion and cook the frying for another three minutes. If you are cooking soup with grated carrots, you should first fry the onion, and then add the carrots to it. Now you can season the soup. First, put the vegetable frying in the broth and wait until it boils. After that, season the soup with noodles and cook until done. About five minutes before the end of cooking, add salt, black pepper and bay leaf to taste. When the soup is cooked, remove the bay leaf and season it with chopped greens. Cover the pan with a lid and let the soup sit for about twenty minutes.
Chicken noodles in Russian
Chicken soup with homemade noodles - that's itsay, a classic of the genre! Actually, the classic recipe is rooster soup. But today we are limiting ourselves to regular chickens. And yet, if such an occasion arises, then be sure to cook broth from a domestic rooster. In extreme cases, buy a soup chicken. Ingredients:
- 1 chicken;
- 1 head of onions;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 parsley root;
- Greenery;
- Salt pepper.
For the test:
- 350 grams of flour;
- 1 egg;
- A third of a glass of water;
- A pinch of sugar;
- Pepper, salt.
Preparation:First, again, you need to make the noodles themselves. We will use the traditional dough recipe, but the method for cutting the noodles is different. So, take the wheat flour and sift it into a bowl or directly onto the table and pile it up. Make a small hole at the top of the resulting pile. Break the egg into a glass, then add water and salt and mix thoroughly until smooth. Pour the resulting mixture into the hole in the flour and knead a steep, smooth and elastic dough. Now sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough into a very thin layer - the thinner, the tastier the noodles will be. Sprinkle the dough layer on top with flour and roll it into a not very tight roll. Now cut the noodles across the roll. And cut the dough, starting from the corner of the rolled roll. Scatter the cut strips of dough on the table and leave them to dry. Cook the broth from the chicken carcass. It is great if you have a saucepan that will fit the whole chicken. Then you need to boil the bird whole, after rinsing it and pouring cold water over it. When the chicken is ready, take it out of the broth and take out all the bones. Divide the remaining fillet into small pieces and put it back into the broth. Finely chop the peeled and washed vegetables and fry in vegetable or butter. Put the saucepan with broth on the fire and let it boil. Now add the fried vegetables to the soup and wait for the broth to boil again. Then season it with noodles and cook for another ten minutes. At the end of cooking, add salt, ground black pepper and sugar. Serve the soup with fresh herbs, soft bread or croutons. Note: Using this recipe, you can make an equally delicious chicken soup with store-bought noodles.
Home made Tartar Noodles
The recipe for homemade noodles in our understanding isThis is a recipe for soup with small thin noodles. However, many nations have very similar dishes, with a dressing of boiled dough. Here, for example, is a recipe for Tatar noodles. It is very tasty and filling, and can be made in the form of diamonds, circles or squares. Ingredients:
- 1 kilogram of meat;
- Pepper, salt, spices at your discretion.
Dough:
- A glass of broth;
- 1 kg of flour;
- 6 eggs;
- Pepper, salt.
Preparation: Cook the meat broth.To do this, put the washed meat in a saucepan, fill it with cold water and put it on low heat. Cook the broth for about two hours, and then pour out a glass of broth for the dough and cool it. The recipe for noodles in the national version differs only in the number of eggs included in it. And here, instead of water, meat broth is added to the dough. So, to prepare noodles, flour must be sifted onto the table or in a bowl, mixed with salt and collected in a mound. At the top of the resulting mound, make a depression and break all the eggs into it. Start kneading the dough, gradually pouring in the cooled broth. The dough should be homogeneous, elastic and steep enough. Roll out the finished dough into a thin layer and cut it into strips, diamonds or small squares, which are left to dry on the table. Clean, wash and chop the vegetables. Next, fry the onion in a frying pan with vegetable oil, then add the carrots and continue frying for about five minutes. Remove the meat from the broth and put the pan on the fire. Cut the meat into pieces and sprinkle with salt. When the broth boils, put the fried vegetables in it, add salt, pepper and spices. Wait for the broth to boil and season it with noodles. Continue cooking the soup for another ten minutes. Before serving, add pieces of meat and chopped greens to the noodles.
Nudel - German style homemade noodles
In Germany, noodle soups are especially popular.do not use. And yet in this cuisine there is not even one recipe for such a first course. for example, you can cook Berlin-style noodle soup or noodles - homemade noodles in the German version. Ingredients:
- 1 chicken carcass;
- 10 medium potatoes;
- 2 handfuls of homemade noodles;
- 3 cloves garlic;
Greens, salt and pepper.Preparation: Cook regular chicken broth. It is important not to overcook the meat! Make noodles using any recipe you like and leave them to dry. Peel, wash and cut the potatoes into strips. Remove the cooked chicken from the pan and cut into portions (with the bones), and strain the broth. Fry chopped garlic in a frying pan with vegetable oil, then remove it. Fry the chicken pieces first in the resulting garlic oil, then the potatoes. Bring the broth to a boil, add salt, pepper, season with noodles and cook for about ten minutes. Serve the noodle as follows. Pour chicken broth, generously seasoned with chopped herbs, into a broth cup, and place the fried chicken and potatoes on a separate plate.
Turkish noodles with tomatoes
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of meat broth;
- 100 grams of homemade noodles;
- 2 tablespoons butter;
- 3 fresh ripe tomatoes;
- Greens, salt, black pepper.
Preparation:Make noodles from unleavened dough and leave them to dry. Cook any meat broth, add salt, pepper and spices to your taste. Wash the tomatoes and cut them into small cubes. First put the noodles into the boiling broth, then the chopped tomatoes. Reduce the heat and cook the soup for about ten minutes. Serve the soup hot, seasoned with melted butter and chopped herbs. Cook soup with homemade noodles at least once and feel the difference. And even if the recipe for its preparation seems complicated at first glance, and the process laborious. In fact, everything is much simpler. The main thing is to cook with pleasure. Bon appetit and success in the culinary field! We recommend reading:
