How to Make the Perfect Egg Noodles
When it comes time to make your family a homemade meal, these 4 ingredient egg noodles are the perfect addition, and you’ll have all of the ingredients right in your pantry! Besides easy ingredients, there really is nothing like homemade noodles. The taste is so much better than store bought, and there is so much satisfaction to making a meal from scratch.
Ingredients
Flour – I like to use King Arthur All Purpose flour, because it is a higher quality flour, but any brand will work.
Eggs – Farm fresh are always best, but any eggs will work.
Salt – I like to cook with pink himalayan salt.
Milk (optional) – I use whole milk, but any milk will work.
How to Make Egg Noodles
Making egg noodles is such a simple process. Start by adding your flour and salt together. I like to give it a quick wisk, to ensure everything is mixed together. Using a measuring cup, make a well in the middle of your bowl. This is where your eggs will go.
Mix Your Ingredients
Using a fork or a stand mixture, slowing start to incorporate the flour and egg mixture. If the mixture looks too dry, add 1 tbsp of milk, then once everything is mixed together, knead for a few minutes.
After everything is mixed, I wrap the dough in saran wrap, and let it sit at room temp for around a half hour, up to an hour. Letting it rest relaxes the dough, making it much easier to work with.
Process Your Dough
When you are ready to start processing the dough, divide the dough into 4 sections, wrapping the unused sections back in saran wrap to ensure it doesn’t get dry. If you are making the noodles by hand, you will want to have a floured surface, and a rolling pin. Start rolling your dough out, make sure it is even. If you are using a kitchen aid, put your dough through the flatten attachment. I like to start my attachment on setting 8. When it starts to get thinner, I will adjust the setting, depending on how thin I want my pasta.
Once your dough is flattened, you are ready to put it through the noodle maker! Before putting it through, you will want to make sure both sides of your pasta have lots of flour on it. This will keep it from sticking while going through the machine.
Now is the fun part! If you are making pasta by hand, use a knife or pizza cutter to cut your noodles. If you are using a kitchen aid attachment, run your pasta through the cutter.
Once I have my pieces cut, I like to place it in a nice pile, so it is easy to handle.
Lastly, once I have processed through all of the pasta, and am getting the rest of the meal ready, I like to hang the pasta on the pasta dryer rack. This will keep the noodles from sticking to each other.
How to Cook Egg Noodles
The one thing I love about cooking egg noodles is how fast the process is. Even if you freeze these noodles, once everything is added to boiling water, the noodles are ready within minutes! Since the cooking time is so low, my preferred method of cooking is in salted, boiling water. If you are looking to get added taste, cook your noodles in chicken broth. My chicken stock recipe is a great example: How to Make Chicken Bone Stock.
How to Freeze Homemade Egg Noodles
These pasta noodles are very easy to store! You can hang the on the dryer for a couple of days to completely dry, and then place them in a zip lock bag. Since I am always short on time, I like to put my noodles in a freezer safe bag, and toss them in the freezer where they will store for months.
Egg Noodles
Ingredients
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbls milk
Directions
- Mix together the flour and salt
- Make a well in the middle of your mixture
- Add your eggs
- Slowly start incorporating the egg and flour mixture
- Add the milk if needed
- Knead for about 5 minutes
- Wrap dough in saran wrap to keep from drying out. Place on the counter for 1 hour
- Divide the dough into 4 sections, keeping the remaining sections wrapped.
- Using either the kitchen aid or by hand, start flattening your dough to the desired thickness.
- Put the flattened dough either through the kitchen aid pasta cutter, or cut dough by hand.
- Hang on pasta dryer rack, until ready to use, or store.
