Homemade Noodles

After watching Anne Burrell on the Food Network make simple work of ravioli I attemped to make homemade noodles since they taste so much better.  My mother in law gave us a pasta roller quite awhile ago so I figured that it was time to use it. 

Here is the recipe that I followed
3 egg yolks
1 whole egg
3 tbsp cold water
1 tsp salt 2 cups flouer

For some reason I had to add more than 3 tbsp of water to get the dough to form.  Living at a high altitude tends to change recipes with flour but in the end I added almost a third of a cup of water.  So basically if you need to add more water than do it.



The rolling machine wasn't too hard to figure out but I was a little scared when I realized the directions were in Italian.  Basically there are two slots to roll your dough through.  The first thins out the dough and has 6 different thickness settings.  The second slot you put the dough through and it cuts it into noodles for you.  I also clamped it down to the end of my counter.

I cut my dough into 8 pieces after letting it rest for 30 minutes.  I did this so it would be easier to handle when rolling it out.  Start with the first slot and set the thickness to 1 and roll your dough through 2 to 3 times.  Then change the thickness to two and roll it again 2 to 3 times.   The directions I followed said to continue this till you ended up on the thinnest setting which is 6 however I felt the noodles were hard to handle and too thin past 4 so I stopped there.

 


cutting the dough into manageable sections, rolling it out too thin and starting over, cutting it to desired length before cutting it into actual noodles



And like a bad blogger I failed to take picture of the finished product but you can kind of see the noodles in the bottom left corner.  After I rolled them through the noodle cutting side I laid them on a baking sheet lined with paper towels and let them rest again for 30 minutes.  To cook them all you do is boil for 3 minutes. Although labor intensive they were sooo worth it!