How To Use The Joyoung Noodlemaker For The First Time

Step by Step on How to use the Joyoung Noodlemaker

Clean and assemble the parts according to manufacturer's instructions. Try this basic noodle recipe:

Measure:

200g flour
70ml water
1tsp oil (add to the water)
1tsp salt

Steps:

1) Pour flour and salt into container
2) Close top cover until it clicks to indicate it is properly locked
3) Press auto to start the machine
4) Slowly pour water (with the oil in it) through the top opening as the machine is kneading
5) Wait 3 minutes and it will start extruding

Tips:

Do not pour water in together with the flour as it will seep out from the bottom of the container. Lift the extruding noodles with one hand like guiding it out and down, and with the other free hand, fan it from behind to cool it. The addition of oil in the dough will prevent the noodle strands from sticking together.

You may add any dry ingredients to the dough together with the flour. Greentea powder, dry herbs, sesame powder, turmeric powder, curry powder, wateva la. As a rough guideline, 1 tablespoon of dry ingredients to 200g flour.

Get this right first and the rest of the intermediate recipes will be child's play

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!!!

What To Do With The Extra Dough Left In The Noodlemaker?

With each batch of noodles that i make, for sure there will be some extra dough left behind inside the noodlemaker. I hate seeing food material go to waste and will try my best to remove as much as possible from the container. This is especially true when i'm making noodles like soba as the organic buckwheat flour that i use is expensive compared to just plain flour.

Last week, i made a batch of chasoba with my Joyoung Noodlemaker. So, what to do with the extra dough left in the noodlemaker? It's easy. Just roll them all up into a ball. If it is too dry, use a few drops of water to soften it.

Next, use a pair of clean kitchen scissors and snip the dough into uniform pieces. it's entirely up to you to snip it short or long. Just make sure the thickness is the same throughout. This is important as thicker dough requires an extra minute or two to cook and that might affect the thinner strips' cooked outcome.

I got this much with my extra chasoba dough, enough for one dish. Wonderful when cooked, chilled, and added to salad. Also makes a great stir-fry dish with some meat and vege. Try it :)

Read this post if you want to learn How To Make Chasoba Using A Noodlemaker. It has video to guide you.

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 :)

How To Make Chasoba Using A Noodlemaker (Video Guide)

It's another glorious Sunday. A great day to play with the Joyoung Noodlemaker. My 8yo was helping me with the ingredients and he found greentea powder inside the fridge. That gave me an idea to whip up a batch of Chasoba for today. We made Soba recently and everyone love its nutty flavor.

The ingredients for Chasoba remains the same as the ones listed at Homemade Soba Recipe, with the addition of a teaspoon of greentea powder. My little chef will be making it for you this time, cos, well, i need to hold the camera for this video, lol!!! The Joyoung Noodlemaker is his actually, and he is quite an expert at making noodles for an 8 year old kid. He is still a bit shy and did not face the camera much, yet eager to make his very first online appearance. Already a familiar face on my Facebook, and now, he will be on Youtube too :)

In this video, Chef M (Malcolm), will be showing you How To Make Chasoba Using A Noodlemaker with just 5 ingredients. Medium round disc is used for this batch of Homemade Chasoba. Enjoy the video :



This is the second part of the video that shows my left hand placed at the back of the noodles, guiding it down as it is being extruded from the disc:



Homemade Chasoba Recipe

How To Make Egg Noodles Using A Noodlemaker (Video Guide)

Egg Noodles always remind me of Wantan Meen, a favorite hawker fare of mine since young. With my Joyoung Noodlemaker, it's really really easy to make Egg Noodles whenever i feel like cooking Wantan Meen for my family.

I have made a Video Guide on How To Make Egg Noodles with my Joyoung Noodlemaker. It's in 3 parts for ease of viewing. It will show you the necessary steps and what to expect when you are attempting Egg Noodles with your noodlemaker.

Skill Level: Basic
Disc: Medium round

Homemade Egg Noodle Recipe calls for 400g of plain flour, 1 egg + some water (140ml total), 1/2 tsp sea salt.

1) Crack an egg into the liquid measuring cup and top up with water until it reaches 140ml line. Mix the egg and water thoroughly, but avoid stirring it until it forms bubbles. Set aside.

2) Weigh 400gm plain flour and place into the noodlemaker.

3) Add 1/2 teaspoon sea salt into the flour and close the top cover down properly until you hear the loud "click".

Video 1 shows how i poured the egg mixture into the noodlemaker.



The noodlemaker will knead for a few minutes, then pause, and starts extruding the dough.

Video 2 shows the extruding process. I used the noodlemaker's medium round disc for this batch of Egg Noodles.



The noodlemaker will pause after it has extruded about 50% of the dough. It will then knead the dough a second time (shorter duration just to separate and loosen the dough a little), and continue to extrude until the machine stops.

Video 3 shows this process.



Remember to always flour your hands when handling the extruding noodle strands. Place left hand at the back of the extruding noodles to guide it smoothly down onto the plate (flour the plate too). Sprinkle flour onto the noodle bit by bit as it exits from the disc. Not too much excess flour or you will get cloudy water when you cook the Egg Noodles.

Always give your noodles a cold rinse to stop the cooking process. Agitate it a little to remove excess flour from the strands, drain and place it back into the hot cooking water for a few seconds just to warm it back. Drain off all excess water before placing your cooked noodles into a bowl. This will ensure you get perfect Homemade Egg Noodles with a springy bite each time. Do share this Video Guide with your noodle-loving friends. Enjoy :)