See How Easy It Is to Make Your Own Fresh Egg Noodles (2024)

Egg noodles are easier to make from scratch than you may think. This old-fashioned egg noodle recipe is made with flour, eggs, and salt. If you've tried making Italian homemade pasta before but weren't thrilled with the process or results, these egg noodles are much simpler. They're also easier to work with because you don't have to roll the dough out as thinly as you would for Italian-style pasta.

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How to Serve

A good substitute for pasta, serve the egg noodles with your favorite sauce. They also make an excellent noodle casserole and can be enjoyed alongside a hearty stew or used in soup. These homemade egg noodles can be used instead of rice for most dishes, or make the ultimate comfort food by tossing them in a large bowl with butter and serving with grated cheese.

Make Ahead

Cook the homemade egg noodles while still fresh, or set them out to dry and store the noodles for future use. As long as you have enough counter space, this recipe can be doubled or even tripled. You can also start a second batch while the first round of dough chills.

Storing Homemade Egg Noodles

You may be tempted to store the uncooked noodles in the fridge or freezer to keep them "fresh." Avoid this temptation. It's really true that they store much better dried than they do in the refrigerator, where they will get soggy.

Difference Between Pasta and Egg Noodles

Many kinds of pasta use eggs, but egg noodles use a higher proportion of eggs to flour. This results in a richer flavor and a deeper yellow color in the noodles. Unlike pasta, they're most often used in casseroles, stews, and soups.

Egg noodles are often made with standard wheat flour. Semolina flour is popular for pasta because it creates a rougher texture that grabs sauce better.

While pasta comes in a variety of shapes, egg noodles are typically flat and wide. The exception is Asian egg noodles, which are typically thin and round, similar to spaghetti.

Tips for Making the Best Homemade Egg Noodles

Use a pasta roller—If you have a pasta roller, you can use that instead of a rolling pin when rolling out the dough. This will lead to more evenly formed noodles.
Air-dried noodles—You can let these uncooked noodles air-dry on a drying rack until completely dry and store them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a month. The noodles will snap in half when completely dried.
Cooking dried noodles—Cook dried egg noodles for 10 to 12 minutes.
A humid kitchen—Humidity will affect the texture of the dough, so if you find the dough is still sticky after incorporating the full cup of flour, add more flour, a little at a time, while kneading until the pasta dough is easy to handle.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES

A Shallow Bowl

A Great Rolling Pin

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour, more as needed
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 large eggs

Steps to Make It

Gather the ingredients.
Combine 1 cup all-purpose flour and 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt in a large shallow bowl or on a clean work surface. Make a well in the center, almost like a "bowl" of flour, to hold the eggs. Crack 2 large eggs into it.

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Use a fork to beat the eggs and then gradually start incorporating the flour into the eggs. As you beat them, they will slowly but surely take up some flour from the edges.
Keep stirring and pulling in more flour until a solid dough forms. The dough will be sticky. Don't worry; you'll be working in more flour in a moment. Add too much flour now, and the extra flour needed to roll out the noodles will lead to a dry rather than tender noodle.
Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface. With well-floured hands, knead the dough, incorporating more flour as necessary to keep it from sticking to either the work surface or your hands until the dough is smooth and firm and no longer sticky. This takes roughly 5 to 10 minutes. Alternatively, use a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and chill it for at least 30 minutes and up to overnight.
Divide the chilled dough into 2 pieces and work with one halfof the dough at a time.
On a well-floured surface, roll out the dough to the desired thickness (anywhere from 1/4 inch to paper-thin, depending on your preference). Be sure to rotate or otherwise move the dough between each pass of the rolling pin to keep the dough from sticking to the work surface underneath. Sprinkle everything with flour—including the work surface when you lift the dough—as necessary to keep the dough from sticking.
Use a sharp knife or pizza cutting wheel to cut the noodles. You can make them as narrow or wide as you like. Be sure to cut them as evenly as possible to ensure a uniform cooking time. If you fold the dough to cut, make sure it is floured so it does not stick together.
Lay the noodles on a cooling or drying rack and let them sit until ready to cook. Repeat rolling and cutting with the remaining half of the dough.
To cook, boil the noodles in well-salted water until tender to the bite (2 to 10 minutes for fresh noodles, depending on the thickness). Drain and use in your favorite recipe. Enjoy!

Feeling Adventurous? Try This:

Added color—Knead in a teaspoon of ground turmeric for a beautiful golden color.
Added elegance—Knead in a few finely chopped tablespoons of fresh parsley into the dough for an elegant presentation.
Added spice—For a spicy kick, knead 1 or 2 teaspoons freshly ground pepper into the dough.

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Nutrition Facts (per serving)
150	Calories
3g	Fat
24g	Carbs
6g	Protein

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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 2to 4
Amount per serving
Calories	150
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3g	3%
Saturated Fat 1g	4%
Cholesterol 93mg	31%
Sodium 300mg	13%
Total Carbohydrate 24g	9%
Dietary Fiber 1g	3%
Total Sugars 0g
Protein 6g
Vitamin C 0mg	0%
Calcium 19mg	1%
Iron 2mg	10%
Potassium 68mg	1%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

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See How Easy It Is to Make Your Own Fresh Egg Noodles (2024)

FAQs

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How much do homemade egg noodles cost to make? These homemade egg noodles made with 5 simple ingredients will cost you about 50 cents. This provides 4 servings of egg noodles.

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What makes homemade egg noodles tough? ›

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Don't knead the dough too much. Knead it just enough to come together and for the dough to be smooth. Overworking can cause the noodles to be tough. Allow the dough to rest 5-10 minutes before rolling out.

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Heat oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add noodles and stir for 2 minutes more. Whisk eggs, water, and salt together in a bowl; pour into the same skillet as the noodle mixture. Cook and stir eggs until set and cooked through, 2 to 4 minutes.

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Spaghetti and egg noodles describe variations of pasta and noodles. Spaghetti is a type of pasta that is characterized by its long, stringy shape. As the name suggests, egg noodles are a type of noodle that is made by incorporating eggs (more egg than other noodle types) into the wheat flour-based dough.

Do you have to dry fresh noodles? ›

Once you've rolled out your dough, you will want to dry it before cutting it into noodles or shapes. This ensures that the dough is firm enough to be properly cut. Timing is key when drying fresh pasta. If you're too impatient, you might end up grappling with some sticky dough.

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Do fresh noodles need to be boiled? ›

Cook fresh pasta noodles in a large pot of boiling salted water. (Use about 6 quarts of water for 1 pound of pasta.) Fresh pasta takes considerably less time to cook than dried, usually 1 to 3 minutes, so watch it carefully. To test, remove a noodle with tongs or a long-handled fork and take a bite.

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Preparing the Noodles

Prepare your noodles so that they are al dente and still have some bite. For most noodles, this means cooking them for a few minutes in boiling water, but thinner noodles, like cellophane rice noodles, usually just need to be soaked.

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In the final analysis, you might be looking at charging around $7 to $10 for a single serving, which is about on par for the market you are working in. Of course, all of this is conjecture and is not a strict necessity for your pasta business. What matters is that your value proposition is strong and unique.

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Eggs are the big differentiating factor between egg noodles and other pastas. But it isn't that regular pasta is made without them entirely (although technically it can be). Rather, it's that the dough generally calls for a smaller proportion of eggs. So, in a way, pretty much all pasta is a type of egg noodle.

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