Saturday, April 25, 2009

How to Make Noodles

By Bengre Boys

Although noodles are very popular and are known to be an essential staple of European and Asian cuisines, very few people actually know how to make them. Noodles can be made easily by following a few steps. The first step of making noodles is to make pasta dough and apportion it. After it has been portioned and relaxed one should dust a flat, large surface using semolina or all purpose flour so that there is not too much sticking.

One should then flatten the dough slightly; more so the end to be fed into the machine. None of the doughs sides should be very thick as it will be hard to catch the end inside the pasta machine rollers. The next step is to dust the machine to be used for making pasta and only semolina or all purpose should be used to do it. During dusting the rollers should be rotated so that a cooking flour layer can coat them. Dusting helps to prevent the dough from stick when rolling.

The dough machine should then be set very high and the doughs thinner end placed in the middle of the two key rollers. One should then pass the prepared dough slowly through their rollers as they spin them. A number of pasta machines are equipped with automated rollers while others have cranks that are hand held. The pastas length will increase dramatically after it has gone through rollers success fully. At this time it can be hard to continue making the noodles as it will have become thinner and changed into a lengthy sheet. Dusting of the pan should be done and one should then fold it over itself to make the length more manageable.

The rollers should then be set together closely and the pasta run through them again. If the pasta is too lengthy it should be cut and the cook proceed with their hand held dough. The partially rolled dough should then be run completely through the rollers at this point. The dusting should be repeated and so should the folding and running through the machine until the desired thickness is obtained. One should then leave the dough to rest for a few minutes. The dough should be devoid of blemishes or cracks.

One should then choose the length they want their noodles to be, if they want fettuccine they should go for twelve inches , if they want the short ones they should go for one or two inches and so on. They should place the entire sheet in the cutters and then dust the noodles with coating, light flour and they will have completed the noodle making process.

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