Homemade Egg Noodles (Miki Noodles)
Homemade Egg Noodles Recipe will give you fresh egg noodles to make Pancit Miki, Lomi or Chow Mein. Making miki noodles or egg noodles is not as hard as you might think!
Servings: 4 -6 servings
Calories:
Ingredients
- 300 grams all-purpose flour add more if needed if dough is still wet and sticky
- 1 tsp salt
- ⅔ cups water
- ½ tsp lye wate
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- ½ tsp powdered yellow food color
- 1 egg
Instructions
- In a bowl mix flour and salt stir and set aside. In another bowl combine water, lye water, food coloring, egg and oil. Beat until well incorporated.
- Take the bowl with flour-salt mix and a well in the center then pour the wet ingredients then mix until solid dough forms.
- Use floured-hands to knead the dough adding more flour as necessary to prevent dough from sticking to sides of the bowl or your hands. Knead for approximately 5 - 10 minutes or until the dough is smooth and firm and no longer sticky.
- Cover the bowl with dough in it with cling film and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- After resting, place the dough in a well-floured work surface and . Using a rolling pin, flatten dough until 4mm - 6 mm thick while occasionally sprinkling flour while rolling.
- When desired thickness is achieved, sprinkle dough with a bit of flour. Fold the dough in half and sprinkle some flour on the top of the dough. Fold the dough in three parts now while keeping in mind to dust the dough each time you fold.
- Cut into 2 parts then get the one half part of the dough and using sharp knife cut the dough depending on how wide or narrow you want the noodles. Dust the cut noodles with flour to avoid sticking. Unravel to spread the noodles and repeat process with the other half of folded dough.
- Boil some water in a pot then add ¼ tsp. salt and 1 tbsp. vegetable oil or cooking oil. Cook the noodles for 30-40 seconds in batches while occasionally stirring. Use a strainer to strain noodles and drain excess water.
- Drizzle cook noodles with some vegetable oil then mix to avoid sticking. Let noodles cool completely before placing in an airtight container and refrigerate until ready to use.