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 :)

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 :)

What kinds of flour can be used with a noodle maker?

The four basic flours that can be used with a noodle maker are:

1) Plain flour, also known as general flour.

2) Bread flour, also known as high protein flour

3) Cake flour, also known as super fine flour

4) Wholemeal flour

Other types of flour that can be used with a noodle maker are:

1) Buckwheat flour, rice flour, sorghum flour, etc. These types of flours are gluten-free, and they do not hold well on their own and need to be mixed with plain flour or bread flour in order to produce the gluten needed to produce noodles.

Note: I personally prefer to use organic unbleached flour for my handmade noodles.