Ingredients:
1. 400g Organic wheat flour
2. 3 eggs (170ml) (42.5% of flour weight)
3. 2 tsp salt (8g) (2% of flour weight)
4. 1 tsp olive oil (4ml) (1% of flour weight, in addition to the 170ml of liquid)
5. 1 litre of boiling water for cooking each 100g of noodles
Instructions:
1. Mix 2 cycles (6mins). Dough should look sandy.
2. Rest for 20 mins.
3. Mix 1 cycle and extrude straight with udon disc.
4. Bring to boil a pot of water.
5. Cook for 3 mins (or 30 seconds after the noodles are added in and started re-boiling). Cook 2.5 minutes if you like it al dente and chewy, 3 mins if you like it softer but still chewy.
6. Drain and toss in soy sauce and sesame oil to prevent sticking. Serve as dry noodles or in soup.
7. If serving in soup, pour into the soup only when you are about to eat it.
Additional Information:
Make this on 27 December 2024. Although traditional udon doesn't contain eggs, i added eggs to mine as eggs are very nutritious. Chewy perfect. Didn't fray at all. Cooked 2.5 mins al dente, didn't turn soggy in soup. 3 mins soft and chewy.
This is the organic wheat flour I use from Føtex Supermarket
Mix all the dry ingredients (wheat flour, wholewheat flour and salt) together and add them into the pasta maker's chamber.
Crack and mix 3 large eggs (170ml)
Mix well.
Start the mixing and slowly pour in the egg mixture (egg and olive oil) and run the machine for 2 cycles of 3 minutes each (you will need to unplug and plug in the machine after each mixing cycle to prevent it from moving to the extrusion stage)
The mixture should look lumpy like the above. but do not be tempted to add more liquid. The mixture may look dry, but do not be tempted to add more liquid. It will be compact and hold its shape when pressed, but it doesn't stick to your hand.
After resting for 20 minutes, run another mixing cycle and extrude straight away using the udon disc. In the beginning, the noodles might fray a little as they come out, but that's ok, and it won't affect the taste.
Here they come :-)
Bring to bowl a pot of water (1 litre for every 100g of noodles), add in noodles and let them cook for 3 minutes. Drain and serve. You can eat them on its own with a bit of soy sauce. You can eat them as noodle soup. You can use them for fried noodles.
You can also add soup and eat them as noodle soup :-) If so, cook the noodles only for 2.5 minutes.