The recipe for noodles passes from generation to generation from grandmothers to the children, grandchildren and great-grandsons. Last century noodles were a popular farinaceous product in many houses. However today to find in a big variety of goods tasty and noodles rather difficult therefore better it to make with own hands.
Home-made noodles are considered one of types of macaroni products. For preparation of noodles flour which is kneaded on eggs with addition of a certain amount of water is necessary. Recipes of noodles have practically among themselves no differences, however methods of its cutting there is a huge number. Everything depends on taste and personal preferences - someone likes thick noodles, to someone thin, someone in general prefers short.
In most cases noodles are used for preparation of soups. Soup to which home-made noodles are added doesn't grow turbid in the course of cooking and remains transparent as the flour product doesn't boil soft at preparation.
It is possible to use home-made noodles not only right after its cutting. The cut and dried up noodles can remain throughout long time in a plastic or glass container or bank. It is so capable to improve any soup that the hostess won't want to use usual pasta from shops any more.
So, to make tasty home-made noodles, the following ingredients are necessary: - one egg; - wheat flour; - salt to taste. For a start egg undertakes and breaks in deep and wide capacity. Directly here it is poured approximately a half-glass of the sifted wheat flour and everything well mixes up at first by means of a spoon. As a result not really dense dough which sticks to a spoon has to turn out. It is necessary to add to this dough gradually in the small portions other sifted flour until dough can be kneaded hands, and it won't stick to them.
If home-made noodles are made from home-made eggs, then it will have in finished form a beautiful yellow shade which will give to a dish of a bigger appetency.
After that it is necessary to knead carefully received dough to reach its uniformity and to roll it in thin layer. For this purpose the table falls down flour and flat cake which rolls out in the thin leaf one or one and a half millimeter thick by means of a rolling pin gives all the best on it. Further the received pancake is cut on wide strips which are in turn cut on a fine noodle. Ready noodles have to be dried. For this purpose it is necessary to take a baking tray, to sprinkle with its flour and to distribute on it thinly cut noodles. Process of drying can take place in kitchen or in an oven at the ventilation mode, without heating. Noodles which were made from one egg can be enough for 4 portions of soup.
That noodles in the course of cooking didn't boil soft, you shouldn't boil it long on fire, it is enough to switch off fire after boiling and to cover a pan. Such noodles will turn out dense and tasty.
For preparation of chicken soup with home-made noodles it is necessary to cook chicken broth first of all. After broth is ready, it is necessary to take necessary amount of liquid and to add to it salt to taste, however at the same time it is necessary not to forget that it is very easy to put too much salt in chicken broth therefore with salt it is necessary to be accurater. Now it is necessary to throw noodles in water and to cook it for 10 minutes. If at preparation of noodles only eggs without water addition were used, ready noodles will never boil soft. It is possible to add pieces of chicken and small cut greens to ready soup.