Homemade Ramen Noodles 自製拉麵

Make the dough: Stir the salt into the water until the salt melts. Whisk the flour, baking soda and 3 tbsp starch together in another bowl and then add to the salt water. Use fingers to mix together. It will form a rough dough ball. Leave it in the bowl but cover it and let the dough rest for half an hour.

Rough knead the dough: The dough will be relaxed but still kinda hard. Use a rolling pin to press down/roll the dough as flat as you can get it. Fold into fourths. Repeat pressing/rolling flat and then folding into fourths another three times. As you roll and fold you will see the dough becoming smoother and more easy to handle. Slip the final rolled out dough into a ziplock bag and let it rest for 2 hours.

Roll the dough: Slice the dough into fourths. Don't add any flour or starch to the dough yet. Set up your pasta machine and roll one piece of dough thru the rollers set at the widest setting. Fold in half and roll thru another 2-3 times. The dough will become nice and silky. Repeat for all four pieces of dough.

Now dust starch to both sides of the rolled out dough. Be sure to cover all the dough. This will prevent the dough from sticking to itself. Adjust the roller setting a bit smaller and roll the dough through the machine. Repeat with smaller settings each time until desired thickness for ramen is reached, around 1/16 of an inch (2mm) thick. Repeat this process for all four pieces of dough.

Cut out the ramen: Set up the desired pasta cutter (we used a vermicelli attachment cutter) onto your pasta machine. Roll the dough through the cutter, catching the cut ramen noodles with one hand as they come out. Curl the cut ramen into a nest shape and place onto a starch dusted tray. Repeat for all four pieces of dough.

Crinkle the ramen: Sprinkle a bit more starch on each nest, shake to distribute the starch, then squeeze the noodles gently to form crinkled noodles. It takes quite a bit of gentle squeezing to get the crinkles so don't be afraid. Place crinkled noodles into a nest like bundle on a starch dusted tray. Cover with a plastic bag or place in an air tight container and let sit in the fridge until ready to make noodles.

Cook the ramen: Boil a pot of water big enough for the noodles. Add noodles and cook for 30 secs to 1 min or until cooked all the way through. As these fresh noodles will cook very quickly be sure to be testing them starting from the 30 sec mark. Enjoy the Noodle-liciouness!