Homemade Kadayif Noodles
What are kadayif noodle? Well, have you ever heard of Dubai Chocolate? Ever tasted the creamy, crunchy pistachio filling in a Dubai Chocolate? Well, you need these fine kadayif noodles if you're going to get that exquisite crunch! My little girl introduced me to Dubai Chocolate and we quickly became hooked onto that incredibly nutty, creamy, crunchy pistachio filling inside the chocolate. We wanted to try making it at home!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour, 95g
- 5 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp oil
- 3/4 cup -1 cup water
- No 1 size piping tip
- piping bag
Instructions
- 1
Mix the batter: Add flour, cornstarch, salt and oil to a bowl. Add in 3/4 cups water and whisk. The batter should lump free, smooth and thin enough to drizzle down when you lift the whisk. If needed add more water, one tbsp at a time, whisking after each addition until the desired consistency is reached. Pass the batter through a sieve to remove any remaining lumps.
- 2
Prepare piping bag: Add piping tip to inside tip of piping bag. Pour batter into piping bag. See tips in blog above for easy batter pour in method.
- 3
Drizzle the noodles: Heat up a wide non stick pan over a medium low heat. Twist the end of piping bag closed and hold that end in your hand. Holding the piping bag directly over the hot pan, drizzle batter into the pan in a circular or zigzag pattern, making sure that the noodle lines don't intersect. Note that the batter is going to flow out fast cuz it's quite thin, so be quick as you work and use a finger to stopper the batter flow when you go back and forth from the pan.
- 4
Cook the noodles: Leave the noodles to cook. Once the noodles curl up one themselves, around a minute, they are done. The color should be white. If the noodles start turning brown lower the heat. Remove noodles and place into a bowl or strainer to cool. Drizzle on more batter and repeat until all the batter is used up.
- 5
Use the kadayif noodles: Once they are cooled to room temp they are ready use. One way to use these noodles is as we did: fry them up golden and crispy to use in a pistachio kadayif cream filling (the filling used for Dubai chocolate!)
- 6
Store the noodles: If not using right away store the noodles in a zip lock bag in the fridge for up to a week. Any longer keep in the freezer.