Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Homemade Shanghai Egg Noodles

Last week we made homemade Shanghai egg noodles for dinner using my dad's famous recipe and our Kitchen Aid mixer that we got a few months ago (which I LOVE, by the way). No more beating heavy whipping cream aimlessly with chopsticks! <-- will save this embarrassing story for another day.
My father is a brilliant biochemist, and he taught me a dough recipe to create thick, chewy noodles with the perfect consistency.

1. To Make the Dough
- 3 cups of flour
- 1 egg
- Sodium carbonate solution: boil 1 cup of water with 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- Mix together in a blender and knead the dough until consistency is smooth

2. To Make the Noodles
If you have a kitchen aid mixer, you can get noodle making attachments to roll out the dough. You would have to do this a few times, first on the thickest setting. Then between each roll, make sure you spread flour on both surfaces of the dough before you roll it into a thinner setting (to prevent it from sticking). 
- Pass the dough through the noodle slicer
- Boil noodles in pot for 5 minutes


Then pass it through the noodle slicer
Boil for 5 minutes, then strain
3. Vegetable Noodle Mix
You can then stir fry some baby bokchoy with pork slices to mix with the noodles. Any other vegetable stir fry would work just fine.
End product
Loved by kiddies too

22 comments:

  1. handmade noodles?! i need to try this!! austin LOVES noodles!! well, so do we!

    xo,
    Sandy
    Sandy a la Mode

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  2. Wow! Here I thought I was being all domestic because I was going to grill some shrimp tonight. ;) Your noodles look delicious!

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  3. They were so professionally made, I am very impressed!

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  6. Seriously, yum! I need to make my own noodles sometime.

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  7. I need to get the noodle attachment for my KitchenAid, these look amazing!!
    xoAmy
    www.dreamingincashmere.com

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  8. Oh my goodness. That looks amazing!!! I'm getting so hungry looking at your pictures. You seem like a great cook! : )

    xox,
    anna-lamode.blogspot.com

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  9. OMG, Christine! I have the exact same mixer and I never touched the attachment. Thanks for the recipe. I definitely will give it a try. I bet fresh noodles taste so much better than the store bought ones.

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  10. This looks so delicious! Love noodles <3 Thank you for the recipe :)

    http://stylealamy.blogspot.nl/

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  11. I would love to try to make homemade noodles, thanks for the recipe, looks yum!

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  12. Oh wow, this looks so delicious! I love homemade noodles... but making the noodles is always so time consuming!

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  13. These sound delicious! I have never made pasta/noodles from scratch but I can definitely taste the difference at a restaurant when they are homemade!

    xx
    Kelly
    Sparkles and Shoes

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  14. yum this looks great! love how you made it healthy with the bok choy! <3

    Metallic Paws

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  15. WOW...so talented! Your pics are making me hungry for some good traditional chinese food :)

    Veloria in Velvet
    www.veloriainvelvet.wordpress.com

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  16. oh my goodness, that looks SO delicious. totally drooling over on my side of the screen right now ;)

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  17. Christy, those noodles look so good! With a fabulous combination of your father's recipe and Kitchen Aid blender (which is the best) how can you go wrong! You did a fabulous job AND thanks for sharing! :D
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  18. Oh my gosh. You are absolutely talented. I love the fact that you make your own noodles, too! I need to try out this recipe for myself and invest in the noodle slicer!

    Michelle
    www.michelleesque.com

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  19. Those fresh noodles look so yummy. Grace is adorable eating noodles.

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  20. Looks delish! I would really like to try and make Shanghai-styled home-made noodles.. :) thanks for sharing!

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  21. This looks great! Did you let the dough rest after mixing? Also, I assume you are using AP flour right? Thank you!

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  22. Do you add boiling water to 3 cup flour? Is it all purpose flour or bread flour?

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