We love to serve these egg noodles with the BEST Homemade Swedish Meatballs, our favorite Beef Stroganoff, and in Slow Cooker Beef and Noodles! I learned to make homemade egg noodles from my mom when I was young. I still remember her mixing together the dough and rolling them out thin on our kitchen table. Cutting the noodles out with the pizza cutter into ribbons was always my favorite part. These are the same noodles I use in my chicken, noodle, & dumpling soup and crock pot beef and noodles. While noodles can be bought cheap from any grocery store, homemade egg noodles are definitely superior to the store-bought variety. Plus, it’s not only frugal, but fun to make homemade egg noodles! The flavor and texture of homemade pasta is so much different than the dried store-bought egg noodles. I highly recommend that everyone try to make their own pasta at least once in their lives, and this easy egg noodles recipe is a great place to start! Next on my list is to try to learn how to make ravioli!
What are egg noodles?
Egg noodles are a simple pasta made with flour and eggs. Unlike other doughs that may involve a leavening agent, egg noodles are basically egg and flour, making them free of leavening agents like baking powder. While most egg noodle recipes, including this one, call for regular all-purpose white flour, egg noodles can be made using almost any flour including buckwheat, rice flour or even whole wheat flour. It’s an incredibly easy to work with and forgiving dough. If you find it’s too dry, add a splash more milk. If it’s too sticky, knead in a little extra flour. Once made, the dough is rolled out into shaped and cut. Then it can be cooked immediately or dried for a few hours (or even longer) before boiling the egg noodles until they are tender.
How to make homemade egg noodles
How to cook egg noodles
To cook immediately: After cutting out your egg noodles, add them to a large pot of salted, boiling water, broth, or soup, a handful at a time so they don’t clump together. Cook for 2-3 minutes until the egg noodles are done. If you’re serving them as a side dish rather than a soup or stew, drain the egg noodles well and drizzle with a little olive oil or melted butter to prevent sticking. Make-ahead Egg Noodles: If you want to refrigerate for later, let your freshly cut raw noodles dry for 1-2 hours so that they won’t stick together, then transfer them to a Ziploc bag or airtight container. This will keep them fresh for up to 4 days inside the fridge or up to 4 months in the freezer. You can cook egg noodles directly from frozen without thawing. Just add to your boiling water or broth and cook for an additional minute or two longer than fresh noodles.
How do you know when egg noodles are done?
Fresh homemade egg noodles cook quickly and making sure that they are cooked properly can help you to avoid an overly mushy meal. While boiling your noodles, look for them to be slightly tender and a little chewy. If you boil them too long they will become mushy very quickly.
How do you dry egg noodles?
After you roll out and cut your noodles, they can be dried on a pasta drying rack. Or you can also spread your noodles out on top of a wire cooling rack to help to give a good airflow to both sides of the noodle to speed up the drying process, if you don’t have a special pasta drying rack. The egg noodles don’t need to be completely dry; just enough so that they won’t all stick together. When they are at this point, you can transfer them to a Ziploc bag or an airtight container (or boil and use). Note that the longer you let the noodles dry, the longer they will take to cook. I typically cook my homemade egg noodles within 1-2 hours of making or freeze and cook from frozen later, rather than bothering to dry them.
Recipes that go well with egg noodles
Creamy Apricot Pork Chops Best Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe Chicken Madeira Smothered Pork Chops Easy Pan Fried Trout Creamy Apple Cider Chicken Skillet Swedish Meatballs
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