How to Make Noodles from Scratch?

As long as we have all purpose flour at home & a pasta machine. We can make fresh noodles any time. We just need a few simple ingredients & the whole family will have fun doing it. My kid just love to help & getting her hand dirty whenever we make noodles from scratch. You  can cook noodle soup or stir fry.

Recipes for homemade fresh noodles:

Oriental noodles:
500g all purpose flour
200-230ml water 40'C-50'C (use warm water can make very Q noodles)
Pinch of salt

Pasta/ Eggs noodles:
500g all purpose flour
200-230g whole eggs
Pinch of salt

Method:
1) Mix all the ingredients together & knead for 5-8 mins by hand or use a bread machine to do the job. I choose to use my machine to do the job.
If you think that the flour mixture is too dry, do add extra water (10-30ml, 1tsp by 1sp). If you think that the flour mixture is too wet, do add extra flour (pls add 1 tsp by 1tsp). Reason being, different brand of flour has slightly different water absorption ability.
2) Once all the ingredients come together, do let it sit for 15-30 mins ( please cover with cling film to prevent the dough from drying) .

3) Divide the dough into 6 portions. Use the widest pasta thickness setting to roll the dough one by one. You can roll about 2 to 3 times for each dough.  You can fold the dough when rolling. In fact, it gives better texture to the noodles. Remember to flour the surface of the dough individual so that it would not stick to the pasta machine. Don't worry about the excess flour, once it is in boiling water, it will rinse it off automatically.

4) After rolling the dough on the widest setting, you can move on to the next thinner setting, then even thinner setting (whichever up to your personal liking). There is no hard & fast rules.

5) Finally, cut the noodles into strips - wide or thin.

6) Boil a pot of hot water & cook the fresh noodles for 2- 3 mins. To know if the noodles is cooked or not, I always pick one from the boiling water & eat it. You will know next time once you have calibrate the timing.

Tips: If you are going to stir fry the noodles, please under cook the noodles (not more than 2 mins) because it will stay AL-dente after stir fry. Only pop in the fresh noodles after the water boiled. From there, we just need 2-3 mins to cook the noodles. Please note that time varies if you put too much noodles into 1 pot of water. Have fun.

That's the stir fry noodles that we cooked on one of the weekend dinner. Enjoy the outcome of your hard work. We deserve it.