You are only a few ingredients away from fresh, made-from-scratch egg noodles! Made completely with your hands, rolling pin, and a knife, a fresh batch of homemade egg noodles can be prepared under 15 minutes and without any special equipment. I share another version of Homemade Egg Noodles on my other blog, iambaker.
Homemade Egg Noodles
This is your basic old-fashioned recipe for homemade egg noodles, just like grandma used to make. Consider trying this egg noodle recipe next time you prepare your favorite soup or stew. These noodles will be a delicious addition to either the Chicken Noodle Soup or Turkey Noodle Soup! Don’t forget that fresh pasta will cook much quicker than store bought dried pasta!
You may use a dough hook attachment on your electric mixer to make homemade noodles, but there is something so very charming about using your hands. Plus it’s easy!
How to Knead and Roll the Dough
Striking the right level of gluten is key to the perfect fresh pasta! If you are kneading with your hands, you should be doing it rather vigorously for 10-15 minutes: it is definitely a workout. Maybe preparing your body for all of the fresh pasta you are about to eat?! The kneading process is simple. You just press the heel of your hand into the ball of dough and push forward. Rotate the ball and repeat. Keep going until the ball no longer looks powdery. On the flip side, if your dough feels wet or sticky, you will need to add more flour. Just a small amount at a time. Once you finish kneading, roll the dough to the desired thickness and cut into your desired width. We usually aim for the thinnest pasta as possible. Collect any leftover scraps and re-roll and cut until all the dough has been used.
If you don’t want to use your noodles yet, you can let dry for a couple hours then package them in an airtight container and store in a cool place for up to a week. To cook, drop homemade noodles into boiling water and boil until fully cooked, about 2 to 4 minutes, depending on how thick your noodles are. Always test first and adjust the time as necessary.
Homemade Egg Noodle Recipe
Once you realize just how easy it is to make your own fresh pasta, you might just never go back. If you have chickens at home, this is a great way to use up some of those eggs you have in abundance too! Fresh eggs make fresh pasta that much better!
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Homemade Egg Noodles
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- Mix together the flour and salt with clean fingers on the work surface. Create a well and add the yolks and egg. Continuing with your fingers, work the egg into the dough.
- Add the water 1 teaspoon at a time and work the dough until it holds together. Continue kneading the dough for about 10 minutes. Roll the dough to the desired thickness and cut it into your desired width. Collect any leftover scraps and re-roll and cut until all the dough has been used.
- To cook, drop noodles into boiling water and boil until fully cooked, about 2 to 4 minutes, depending on how thick your noodles are. Always test first and adjust the time as necessary.
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Great recipe! The noodles cooked so much faster than my old recipe I’ve been using for decades. This recipe just replaced it! Thanks so much 😀
Can you use a stand mixer to mix then roll out
arthritis in my hands won’t let me knead and roll so I got a Phillips pasta maker. At what stage can I use it ?
My mother-in-law taught me to make egg noodles when I was nineteen and living with her while my husband was serving overseas. I am now seventy seven and still make those same noodles every year. The other good lesson she taught me was to make bread whenever I was angry with my husband we’re married 58 years . I guess it worked!
Just like my mother would make around Thanksgiving and Christmas and adding leftover pieces of turkey!! ❤️❤️🙌🙌
Have a maiden getting ready to hear gonna be nice to eat some homemade noodles again.Can’t wait thank you very much.p
Best noodles ever!
The perfect noodle! I made home made chicken and noodles with this! Thank you Miss Amanda.
The recipe was great Thank You
I learned to make these from my grandmother and I even use her rolling pin. My recipe is similar to this for noodles. I also make dumplings to add to my beef stew by just pulling hunks of dough and dropping them in the pot. My favorite however comes for Appalachia. After rolling out the dough, make sure there is plenty of flour on it and drop into boiling homemade chicken broth. The extra flour will thicken the broth into a gravy and then I serve it over mashed potatoes. My children always asked for this as their birthday dinner and now my grandkids do too.
Can you freeze these? And how long do they keep in the freezer? How long to cook from frozen?
I freeze them all the time. If I have eggs that need used that’s my go to. In fact I am making some this week to use Dec. 14th. It’s so nice to reach in the freezer and get them, I dry them out and put in a gallon zip lock. I will probably make two batches tomorrow.
Super easy to follow! Made a huge pot, but I doubled the recipe! Thank you
THANK YOU 🥲❤️ was so easy to make and follow. Definitely a go to now!
This was so easy and will now be a family favorite. I just used eggs salt pepper and flour!
Perfectly light, tasty noodles. YUM
Mine came out tough, any idea what I did wrong?
You may have over kneaded the dough.
you knead it too long doesnt need to be mix very long
Can I make them in advance and store until ready to use?
Why do you use just the yokes at first?
Why do homemade noodles come out tough??
Do you have to dry noodles first??
Add a teaspoon of baking powder
could be too much flour use just a little flour on the table when rolling them out.
I was wondering if 00 flour would work or is it an absolute to use all purpose flour. 00 is so fine and is used for pasta like a ravioli or other type of more delicate pastas. I have so much of it and no all purpose.
Sure!
I have wanting to make these Egg Noodle for a while I going to try on Monday
I usually buy Reames Homemade Egg Noodles… sadly they do not have any in stock. So I am going to make these. When I make my chicken noodle soup I usually simmer the egg noodles for 25 to 30 minutes. Is this going to work for these noodles? The instructions say put them in in the last 3 to 5 minutes. Also if there is left over soup are the noodles going to hold up?
thank you for your help
Hi Cindy. I used to use Reames Egg Noodles as well and sometimes I still do, but I absolutely prefer to make my own and they are so easy to make. They do not require the same length of time cooking like the recipe states, I usually do mine for about 7 to 8 min in my chicken noodle soup, of course I taste test just to make sure lol. They absolutely hold up well as leftover too. My children and grandchildren prefer them over the store bought anyday! I am making chicken noodle soup as well today and will be using my homemade egg noodles.
Hi Debbie.. I make these every thanksgiving. They do hold up well as leftovers.
Hey, can you drop noodles in boiling broth and use the broth for the chicken and noodles in making or does it have to be in boiling water?
Noodles are very easy to make and I tried your recipe. Nice tender noodles but I think I’d cut back the salt to 1t, they seemed salty to me. I adjusted my stock and chicken to reflect the saltier noodle, excellent! To those who are new to making noodles you can add salt later and I do sift my flour with the salt before I make the well.
They will be too Salty if you use regular table salt. Kosher salt has a MUCH bigger granules. Because of that, there is more air space. Table salt is a much finer grain so there is less room air and more room for salt.(I don’t know how to explain it very well) So if you’re using table salt you’ll need to use half as much. Does that make any sense to. Sorry for the poor explanation.