Springy Homemade Udon Noodles
- 500 grams All-purpose flour
- 25 grams Salt
- 250 ml Water
- 1 White flour (to use for dusting)
- These are the only ingredients.
- Thoroughly dissolve the salt into the water.
- Gradually add the water to the center of the all-purpose flour (leave behind 50 ml for later.)
- Stir together with you hand to break up the clumps.
- If there are clumps, break them apart.
- If the flour turns somewhat yellow, as seen in the picture, it's okay.
- Pour in the remaining 50 ml of salt water.
- Knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
- Fold it over, push it out, and repeat.
- If you put it in a plastic bag and step on it to knead, they will become firm and chewy.
- Once you have finished kneading the dough, put it in a plastic bag and let it sit for 1 hour.
- If making this in the summer, let it sit for less than an hour.
- If making this in the winter, you should probably let it sit for longer.
- Once the time has passed, gently knead the dough again and let it sit for about 20 minutes.
- If you skip this process, the next step will be pretty difficult to perform (if you stretch it out, it will move back into place).
- Use a rolling pin to spread out the dough to 3mm thick.
- Do your best to make the thickness uniform!
- I used a large wooden pestle as a rolling pin.
- Dust a large amount of flour onto the rolled out noodle dough.
- Fold the dough like an accordion and slice strips of dough with a knife.
- The thickness and width should be about 3 mm.
- After slicing the noodles, if you bundle them into individual portions, they will be convenient to manage.
- Before you will be boiling the noodles, dust with a lot of flour.
- Boil the noodles in a pot of water for about 8-10 minutes or until they are done.
- When you are testing the hardness of the noodles, please dip them in cold water.
- Once the noodles have boiled, drain the water and rinse with running water to cool them off while at the same time rinsing off the slime.
- Arrange in a bowl and they're done!
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salt, water, white flour
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/148709-springy-homemade-udon-noodles (may not work)