Crab Soup Noodles

Got myself a new small square mold for my Joyoung N51 Noodlemaker late last year. Didnt get to play with it till now. After making noodles of so many shapes and sizes, i have come to like finer noodles. They cook real fast compared to fatty udon type that takes 2 million years to get done, lol!!!

There's still a lot of crab meat in the freezer. So, whipped up a quick pot of crab soup with dehydrated vegetable mix. Added a few small slices of fresh ginger to the soup to cut down the "cold" nature of the soup. It's so sweet. Makes a perfect bowl of Crab Soup Noodles for lunch :)

I used the Joyoung basic noodle recipe to test my new small square mold. Am delighted with my batch of noodles for today. These days, i will just use half a bag of flour as 500g happens to be the max capacity of my Joyoung N51. Add approximately 170ml water with 10ml vco, a teaspoon or so of sea salt. No exact measurements as i have gotten used to gauging the dough texture by sight. For the rest of you still new to making homemade noodles with the Joyoung Noodlemaker, do follow the Joyoung Noodle Maker Recipes here first, ya. Practice makes perfect. Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Homemade Butter-Parsley Pasta Recipe

I have some parsley flakes sitting inside a bottle. Gave me an idea for a batch of aromatic pasta for lunch. Malcolm took butter out of the fridge to make sandwich earlier and left it on the kitchen table. It looks so inviting that i decided to use butter instead of oil for my noodles today.

I only have unbleached plain flour left. With the parsley flakes and a teaspoon of clarified butter, my Joyoung Noodle Maker churned out a nice batch of Butter-Parsley flavored pasta. The result is really really good and has that faint herby-buttery scent. Go give it a try:

Skill level: Intermediate

Disc: Medium Flat Wide

Homemade Butter-Parsley Pasta Recipe

400g unbleached plain flour

140ml water

1 tsp clarified salted butter

1 tbsp dried parsley flakes (or finely chopped fresh parsley)

1 tsp sea salt

Homemade Low-Gluten Rice Noodle Recipe

These days, i am getting better and better at making low-gluten noodles. It's not easy to combine gluten-free flours with plain flour and produce noodles using the noodlemaker. Took me many attempts to see beautiful, soft, low-gluten noodles like this. Quite close to Mee Suah texture, but not that soft.

Rice noodles are usually produced traditionally by combining steamed rice flour with tapioca flour using hot water, then extruded using a hand-press. I have tried that before with the noodlemaker and it was horrible. The dough was far too wet and gooey for the noodlemaker to extrude and in the end, i only managed to get 6 inches worth of lai fun, LOL!!! I wont say it is not impossible, ok. Just that i need to tweak the (rice flour : tapioca flour) ratio enough times to get it right. *lazy*

And so, i experimented by substituting tapioca flour with plain flour to hold it all together. This is not gluten-free noodles, ya. It is low-gluten rice flour, with a much delicate and softer texture compared to basic plain flour noodles. I did not set the Joyoung Noodlemaker to auto for this batch of rice noodles. Rather, i kneaded the dough with the knead function for 3 cycles just to develop enough gluten from the plain flour to hold it all together without breaking apart when the machine is extruding.

I have tried kneading it more than 3 cycles. I think 6, for a total of 18 minutes worth of kneading time!! It extruded perfectly. But as i wanted a good low-gluten noodle recipe, 6 times would have developed too much gluten from the plain flour. I feel that 3 cycles produces the best textured rice noodles from my Joyoung Noodlemaker. You can, of course, try with 2 cycles or more. It is entirely up to you to experiment. Try it:

Difficulty level: High
Disc; Medium Round

Homemade Low-Gluten Rice Noodle Recipe

250g unbleached plain flour
150g organic rice flour
160ml hot water
1tsp oil
1tsp sea salt

Homemade Soba - Best Low-Gluten Noodle Recipe

 

I'm super happy today. Just produced the best batch of homemade soba noodles with my Joyoung Noodlemaker. It came out smoothly, without having the ridges appearing on the surface of the strands. Dry to the touch, held together well enough to not break as they appeared!!! I managed to get 460g worth of soba with a combination of 400g buckwheat flour + plain flour.

Cooked 150g for my two boys, and have four more servings for later on. Had it with tomatoes-garlic-onions-basil sauce. I know, it's a weird combination but the boys like it. So, i'll just call today's meal Sobaghetti, ok. I know, you all now want to know the ratio used in this batch of homemade low-gluten noodle recipe right.... here you go :

Homemade Soba Recipe v2

250g unbleached plain flour
150g organic buckwheat flour
140ml water
1tsp oil
1tsp sea salt

Enjoy :)

Homemade Wholemeal Honey Pasta Recipe

Life is good, especially good when the i get an idea to transform plain simple flour into something different for my family to enjoy. This morning, as i was rummaging through the many flour containers inside the fridge, i found a small packet of wholemeal flour. Hubs bought a new jar of acacia honey from the organic shop and both items gave me an idea to make a batch of wholemeal honey pasta to make spaghetti for the kids with my Joyoung Noodlemaker.

I did not weigh how much wholemeal flour i had and just added extra plain flour to it to make it a 400g batch. With 140ml honey+water, oil and sea salt, i got myself a nice batch of sweet-smelling homemade wholemeal honey-flavored pasta. Wholemeal flour gave the batch of pasta great texture and bite without being chewy. It is also good eaten plain without topping, especially when made with the macaroni disc. Kids will love the delicate taste of honey in it.

Homemade Wholemeal Honey Pasta Recipe

250g organic unbleached plain flour
150g organic wholemeal flour
140ml organic acacia honey+water (sweetness is up to you)
1tsp sea salt
1tsp virgin coconut oil

Disc: Medium round
Function: Auto

Homemade Carrot Noodles

Hubs wanted to drink carrot juice today. So, the good wife went to buy carrots back to juice a large cup for him. Then realized all the pulp will go to waste if i were to just flush them down the sinkhole. Watudu, being the frugal person that i am, measured and poured some unbleached plain flour into the Joyoung Noodlemaker. Added a pinch of salt to it. Used as much carrot juice and pulp as i could for a batch of Homemade Carrot Noodles, a few drops of garlic oil, and pressed the auto button.

This is the second time i'm making noodles today, lol. First was just a batch of plain ones as you can see in the container beneath my hand. I really do love to see the small orangey carrot bits along the noodle strands. Arent they lovely? Come to think of it, i should have added honey to the liquid mixture. My kids loved the batch of Homemade Wholemeal Honey Noodles i made earlier. Maybe tomorrow when someone wants to drink carrot juice, lol!!!

How To Make Tomato-Egg Noodles (Pictorial Guide)

I have nothing much in my fridge except vege and unbleached hi protein flour today. No idea what to cook for the kids either, lol. After rummaging through the containers, i saw a few tomatoes, some broccoli and purple sweet potatoes. As the latter two require steaming and mashing to make noodles with, i opted for tomatoes this time.

Cut up 2 large tomatoes and blended them for the juice. The remaining pulp will be perfect for cooking the sauce to go with the noodles.

Cracked an egg into the liquid measuring jug that came with the Joyoung Noodlemaker.

Add the fresh tomato juice in to achieve 120ml of liquid in total. I also added 1 teaspoon of olive oil into the liquid for extra smooth noodles.

This time, i used 250g of the unbleached hi protein flour and 50g of superfine flour. Added 1 teaspoon of sea salt for added flavor.

And voila.... a batch of silky smooth springy homemade tomato-egg noodles for today. Then, my 8yo little chef skipped into the kitchen. As he sipped on the remaining tomato juice, complained why isnt the color red like the tomatoes. o.O..... I asked him to go do the color math. Red Tomato + Yellow Yolk = ............. and he went, "ya horrr... Orange Noodles". Pheeewwww... *wipes sweat from forehead* :p

Alright, i know.... go get the Homemade Tomato-Egg Noodle Recipe here :)

Homemade Tomato-Egg Noodle Recipe

Homemade Tomato-Egg Noodle Recipe

250g unbleached hi protein flour/bread flour
50g superfine/cake flour
1 egg + fresh tomato juice to obtain 120ml liquid in total
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon olive oil

How To Make Black Sesame Noodles Using A Noodlemaker (Pictorial Guide)

Making sesame noodles is so easy these days. Last time, i used to see my mom toast sesame seeds, let them cool and then grind them into coarse powder whenever she wants makes anything with it. Now, i just pop over to the organic shop and buy a can of ground sesame powder, lol. I know it's not the same, but that is alright with me. I really do not have the time nor patience to prepare every single ingredient by hand prior to making my noodles.

This morning, my kid dug out the can of sesame powder that i have placed into a plastic bag when we were packing our things early this month. I thought i have lost it for good and kept reminding myself i need to go buy a new can. Not much left in it, maybe for a few more rounds of noodles. Good enough for today :)

Let's get down to work on How To Make Black Sesame Noodles with Joyoung Noodlemaker.

Skill level: Basic
Disc used: Medium round

First, we need 400g of plain flour.

Next, we need 140ml water, a heaping soup spoonful of ground black sesame powder, and a teaspoon of sea salt.

Place flour, black sesame powder and sea salt into the noodlemaker.

Lock the lid in its place until you hear the "click"

Select "Auto" to start the Joyoung Noodlemaker.

Pour the water in through the opening at the top of the cover in slowly as the noodlemaker kneads the flour.

The Joyoung Noodlemaker will knead the flour for 3 minutes, pauses, and start extruding the black sesame noodles.

It will extrude, pause, knead, one or twice more till most of the dough has been extruded. Remember to flour the noodles lightly as they are being extruded from the disc to prevent them from sticking together.

And here is the first ball of homemade black sesame noodles. Click the link for the full homemade black sesame noodles recipe. Just love them with speckles of black well distributed along every single strand. I havent planned on how to cook black sesame noodles yet tho. Will post and link to it once i have decided :p

Homemade Chasoba (Greentea Buckwheat Noodles) Recipe

Homemade Chasoba Recipe

175g (adjusted from 125g) unbleached flour (high protein flour)
75g organic buckwheat flour 
90ml cold water
1 tsp greentea powder
1/2 tsp sea salt

Enjoy your homemade noodle :)

Homemade Buckwheat (Soba) Noodle Recipe

Homemade Buckwheat Noodle Recipe

175g unbleached flour (high protein flour)
75g organic buckwheat flour
90ml cold water
1/2 tsp seasalt

Enjoy your homemade noodle :)

Homemade Wolfberries Noodle Recipe

Homemade Wolfberries Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml water
Grind a handful of wolfberries and place into the noodle maker together with flour
1 teaspoon seasalt

 Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Egg Noodle Recipe

  

Egg noodles remind me of wantan meen. When i was a kid, we lived right opposite a wantan meen seller. Their stall was at the wet market down the street where we lived. My favorite pastime then was wrapping wantan with his daughter whenever i go to the market. I got really good at it and her dad usually treats me to a plate of kon lou wantan meen with big fat wantans. As they also ran a noodle factory, my mom also buys their famous egg noodles.

I love egg noodles. They are unlike ordinary noodles as egg noodles has that special springy bite to it. With just flour, egg and water, i'm so happy that i can make my own version of egg noodle whenever i feel like it. Over the years of observing how my neighbor cooks wantan meen, i have since become very good at achieving that particular "bite" that i'm so fond of.

One very important step to note when cooking homemade egg noodles is you must give the noodles a cold rinse by either running it under cold tap water, or placing them into a pot of cold water and loosening them up. This will stop the cooking process and you will end up with springy noodles that is simply delightful with every bite. If you already have a noodlemaker, you can give my homemade egg noodle recipe a try. This recipe has gone viral many times and i'm sure you will like it.

 Homemade Egg Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
1 egg + water that measures 140ml in total volume
1 teaspoon sea salt

You can also check out the Video Guide on How To Make Egg Noodles Using A Noodlemaker.

Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Wholemeal Noodle Recipe

Homemade Wholemeal Noodle Recipe

250g plain flour
150g wholemeal flour
140ml water
1 teaspoon seasalt

Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Macaroni Recipe

Homemade Macaroni Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml water
1 teaspoon seasalt

Use macaroni disc

Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Pandan Noodle Recipe

Homemade Pandan Noodle Recipe 

400g plain flour
140ml juice from pandan leaves
1 teaspoon seasalt

 Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Seaweed Noodle Recipe

Homemade Seaweed Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml water
2 tablespoon ground seaweed (use a mill)
1 teaspoon seasalt

Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Beetroot Noodle Recipe

Homemade Beetroot Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml beetroot juice
1 teaspoon seasalt

 Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Sesame Noodle Recipe

Homemade Sesame Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml water
1 tablespoon black sesame powder
1 teaspoon seasalt

 Enjoy your homemade noodles :)

Homemade Turmeric Noodle Recipe

Homemade Turmeric Noodle Recipe

400g plain flour
140ml water
1 tablespoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon seasalt

Turmeric powder will stain the white parts of your machine. Dont worry as the stains will come off little by little for as long as you use the noodle maker. Do not attempt to scrub it off. Normal washing with a dishwashing liquid will do.

 Enjoy your homemade noodles :)