Store shelves today abound with a huge range of products for every taste. It is enough to visit a nearby supermarket, buy ready-made semi-finished products and not waste extra time on constant cooking. The housewives adhere to the same opinion when choosing store-bought noodles, which can be cooked without much hassle in a matter of minutes. In fact, even a novice in the culinary arts can knead the dough for this dish on their own. We will tell readers in this article how to cook homemade noodles quickly and without much difficulty.
Homemade noodles go well with various vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, and can also be used as the main ingredient for soups. To make this side dish, all you need is flour, eggs, water and a pinch of salt.
Note: the finished dough can be cut in a variety of ways, whether it be ordinary strips, cubes or interesting figures made using a special noodle cutter.
Note: if you want to speed up the drying process, place the noodles in an oven preheated to 60 ° C and leave it for half an hour.
Lagman is a traditional dish of Uzbek cuisine. Meat, herbs, broth and various spices are added to hand-made spaghetti. Most lagman recipes are based on the simplest dough made from water, eggs and flour. Before serving, the broth with meat and vegetables is first added to the boiled noodles, and then the dish is decorated with chopped herbs.
It is unlikely that you will find pasta in the store that, in terms of taste, can be compared with delicious homemade noodles of your own preparation. Egg tender vermicelli can be added to chicken soup or cooked from it into an appetizing pasta with vegetables in a creamy sauce.
For first courses, delicious homemade noodles cooked on eggs without adding water are perfect. You can use the above described egg vermicelli or rice flour noodles. Combine salt, eggs and flour, knead the resulting mass well and roll out a layer of dough no more than 1 mm thick.
Cut the rolled layer into thin strips. The finished noodles do not need to be dried further. It is enough to shake it thoroughly before cooking, after which the vermicelli is placed in chicken broth and boiled for 3 minutes.
Note: the noodles are put into the soup at the very end of cooking, after adding potatoes, carrots and chicken to the broth.
The main feature of this Chinese dish is that the noodles for it are prepared exclusively from wheat flour. At the same time, it is enough to add a little soy sauce to enjoy the exquisite taste of Asian cuisine. However, in its pure form, udon noodles are practically not eaten - often the dish is supplemented with various vegetables or seafood.
Note: To prevent the noodles from overcooking during the heat treatment process, frozen udon should be thawed slightly before use.
Such Chinese noodles are fried in a special deep frying pan with a convex bottom. Not everyone in the house has such a pan, so we recommend choosing any other pan that you find in your kitchen. Udon wheat noodles, buckwheat vermicelli or funchose made from rice flour are used as the main ingredient.
To begin with, vegetables, meat or seafood are fried in a wok pan. The choice of ingredients used in the dish depends on your taste preferences and wishes. In Asian countries, chicken, beef or pork are added to wok noodles. After the meat is lightly fried, boiled noodles are placed in the pan and all the ingredients are fried until fully cooked.
Such vermicelli is boiled in lightly salted water for no more than three minutes, after which it is thrown into a colander and the liquid is drained. Before frying, it is enough to soak it for 10 minutes in cool water without subsequent cooking. So the finished vermicelli will turn out tender, elastic and very tasty.
Knowing such little tricks, you will definitely make delicious homemade noodles without additives harmful to the body. Combine vermicelli with various vegetables, meat products or seafood, complement the dish with fragrant spices and delight your household with a culinary masterpiece of your own preparation.
On the one hand, everyone knows how to cook vermicelli - the product just needs to be placed in salted boiling water and removed after the number of minutes indicated on the package. On the other hand, ignorance of the nuances of the process will lead to the fact that the elements of the product stick together, regardless of whether it is boiled in a slow cooker or a saucepan. But if you do everything right, you can count on getting not just a side dish that tastes good, but a rather sophisticated dish with a delicate texture. In addition, small and fragile pasta is often added to soups, used to create children's milk porridges.
Before cooking vermicelli, it is necessary to evaluate its texture, composition, cost - the method of processing the product will depend on this. Products of the highest quality are best cooked in a slow cooker. You can try to cook a slightly worse composition in a saucepan, always keeping the container under vigilant control. But to cook thin pasta from soft wheat varieties, you will have to resort to the old method using a deep frying pan.
Tip: People who are watching their figure do not have to count how many calories are in a particular serving of the product. You just need to choose vermicelli made from durum wheat without any additives (it is marked with the letter “A” on the package). The color of such products is very pure, without gray shades.
Regardless of which type of processing is chosen, you need to understand how much water to take for a certain amount of vermicelli. Experts believe that even if you need to boil only 100-150 g of the product, you need to take at least 1 liter of liquid. Otherwise, the mass will turn into a heterogeneous mess.
Ideally, vermicelli for soup is boiled separately in a slow cooker or saucepan, and 2-3 minutes before the dish is ready, it is introduced into its composition. If you want to save time and effort, you can introduce a raw and unprocessed product, based on the degree of readiness of other components. Vermicelli is added 30 minutes after the start of boiling the chicken, 10 minutes after the introduction of potatoes or carrots, along with bell peppers, broccoli or very young cabbage. But the last option is not very reliable, because. it is not always possible to clearly calculate all the indicators, and as a result, boiled pasta only spoils the first course.
The most common mistake when preparing milk porridge with vermicelli is an attempt to boil the dry product directly in milk. Most often, this leads to the appearance of sticky lumps, unappetizing foams and pieces of raw product. To prevent this from happening, it is better to boil small noodles separately using any of the above methods, but only without adding salt to the dish. After the liquid drains, add milk to the noodles, heated in a water bath, and seasoned with cinnamon, vanilla, butter. Simultaneously with milk, pieces of dried fruits, previously soaked in boiling water, are often introduced.
Whatever method of boiling vermicelli is chosen - in a slow cooker, in a saucepan, even steamed, the products should be slightly underexposed. Only in this case they will reach already in the plates due to their own temperature and reach the optimal state.
To cook noodles, you will need a large amount of boiling water or broth. Pour the entire amount of noodles into the boiled liquid at once and mix immediately so as not to stick together. Boil - depending on the size and thickness of the noodles. Boil egg noodles faster than usual, 3-4 minutes.
How to cook shrimp noodles
1. Boil 1 liter of water.
2. Pour noodles into boiled water, cook for 5-7 minutes, transfer to a colander and rinse under running water.
3. Boil 1 cup of water in a saucepan, put in the shrimp and cook for 3 minutes after boiling.
4. Cool the shrimp a little and peel them from the shell.
5. Wash the bell pepper, cut the stalk, remove the seeds and cut into thin half rings.
6. Heat a frying pan over medium heat, pour in the oil, put the noodles and fry for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Put the shrimps, peppers, green peas and mix, fry for another 2 minutes.
8. Wash parsley and chop finely.
Serve noodles with shrimp, sprinkled with chopped herbs on top.
One type of noodle - fettuccine flat pasta
Noodles are thin and thick. Thin is usually sold in stores in dry form, thick for lagman - chilled or frozen. The general rule is that the thicker the noodles, the longer they cook, but the length and width of these pasta does not affect the cooking time: if the thickest place is cooked to softness, then the noodles are completely ready. To make sure that it is ready, catch 1 noodles in the pan with a fork, blow on it and try it. If there is no hint of stiffness, then the noodles are cooked.
The most delicious side dish noodles are made from durum wheat without the addition of eggs. Such noodles will serve as a crumbly side dish, will not stick together during cooking and will complement any dishes, especially with sauce. But sometimes noodles are taken to be slightly boiled and absorb the tastes of other products of the dish - then you can buy cheaper noodles, with eggs, it will be softer than first-class, but it will be combined organically with other products.
How to cook Thai noodle soup
1. Pour vegetable broth into a saucepan and put on fire.
2. Add cilantro, pepper, garlic and ginger.
3. Bring the broth to a boil and cook for 25 minutes over low heat, covered with a lid.
4. Cut the tofu cheese, put it in a bowl, pour over soy sauce and leave for half an hour.
5. Pour water into the pan, bring to a boil, put the noodles.
6. Boil the noodles for 5-7 minutes, then put in a colander, drain the water and arrange on plates.
7. Strain the vegetable broth, return to the fire.
8. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, wash the mushrooms and cut into slices.
9. Add Tofu with soy sauce, carrots and mushrooms to the vegetable broth, cook for 5 minutes.
10. Pour the noodles with the resulting mixture, sprinkle with lemon juice.
Serve Thai soup with wheat noodles and garnish with cilantro leaves.
Author/editor - Lydia Ivanova
Reading time - 5 min.
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Pasta is a versatile and very tasty side dish that anyone can cook ... or almost everyone. Or rather, anyone who knows the intricacies of cooking pasta, as the Italians call pasta. There are not so many of them, so even a novice cook can understand them and cook pasta so that they do not stick together.
The main reason that pasta sticks together during cooking is not at all in the skills of the cook, but in the quality of flour products.
It is interesting. The word "paste" has ancient Greek roots, until the XIV century it meant flour, into which sauce was mixed. But in the 19th century, pasta became familiar to us pasta.
Regardless of the type and name (spaghetti, shells, gossamer, etc.), there are 3 types of pasta.
That is, the higher the group, the less likely it is that the pasta will turn into an unappetizing lump. Therefore, the product of group A is preferable.
The second important reason is incorrect traditions: the habit of domestic housewives to wash pasta after cooking is often the root of the problem. The fact is that Soviet pasta could really be saved only by washing them with cold water after cooking. But the modern market offers a wide selection of pasta made according to the original recipe, which automatically taboos the habit of “driving to Tula with your own samovar”. It is enough to cook the pasta correctly so that they do not turn into a lump, not only after cooking, but also every other day (!).
It is interesting. Sometimes cooks still wash pasta, for example, if noodles, horns are an ingredient in another dish, or the side dish needs to be slightly hard (chef Ilya Lazerson is guided by this when washing pasta after cooking).
The third reason is technological violations. In this case, we are talking about the fact that little water is poured for cooking, and a lot of pasta is poured - where can you not stick together?! The secret of Italian chefs will help to avoid this: at least 1 liter of water must be poured per 100 g of pasta.
And the last most common reason is the wrong cooking time. The most ardent admirers of pasta - Italians - apply the "al dente" rule: you need to cook the products until the top layer softens, and the inside of the pasta is dense, but not crispy. In this state, the garnish is removed from the stove and allowed to “reach” for 2 minutes to the desired condition. The pasta was slightly overexposed on the stove - the top layer will completely soften and, in the process of cooling, will glue the side dish into a lump.
Based on the foregoing, one of the most important factors in the proper preparation of pasta is the quality of the product. When choosing a paste, you need to look at the color of the products. Initially pale grayish pasta of group B or C simply will not be able to acquire a different shade after cooking. And no matter how much you try to weld them, they stick together. But the indication that the pasta is made from durum wheat (it. pasta di semola di grano duro) is exactly what you need. Also, a quality product cannot be cheap. In general, do you want to enjoy not only the meal, but also the cooking process? Don't skimp on quality pasta.
It is interesting. If the manufacturer did not indicate on the packaging the time required to cook pasta, then you should not buy such a pasta: the manufacturer, who is responsible for his products, will never miss such an important moment.
Before you start cooking pasta, consider the following nuances.
It is interesting. Italians add oil to pasta not only during cooking, but also after cooking. Moreover, preference is given to bitter extra virgin olive oil.
Depending on what the pasta will be cooked in (in a saucepan, double boiler, microwave oven), the cooking method is different. Each option has its own subtleties.
So that vermicelli, shells, horns do not stick together after cooking, it is important not only to observe the nuances of choosing products, but also to prepare everything you need. For cooking in a saucepan, you will need the following tools and products:
Instruction:
It is interesting. If you cook the side dish for 2-3 days, you do not need to drain the water to the last drop: its remnants will not allow the pasta to dry out.
This approach to cooking vermicelli, spirals will help out if the side dish needs to be cooked very quickly.
Instruction:
Instruction:
Cooking delicious pasta, cooking pasta so that they do not stick together is not difficult if you know some of the subtleties of this process:
Serve the dish on a warmed plate and immediately before serving.
Cooking delicious pasta that does not resemble the gray mass of a side dish from public catering is easy. It is worth taking into account the advice of professionals and deliberately approach the choice of pasta. Of course, it is important to take into account the cooking technology, not to make a mistake with the cooking time, and to serve it correctly. And then everything will be, as the Italians say, tutto bene - great!
All housewives have repeatedly asked such a simple question how to cook noodles deliciously. In principle, there is nothing complicated in its preparation. The main thing is to follow some recommendations and in 20 minutes you will get a tasty and satisfying dish.
How to cook noodles so that they do not stick together - secrets
How to cook noodles?
Ingredients:
Cooking
Put the noodles in a container with salted hot water, add a little sunflower oil and put the dishes on medium heat. Boil the contents for 10 minutes, stirring, and then recline in a colander and rinse.
How to cook rice noodles?
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Cooking
Soak the noodles for a few minutes in warm water. Without wasting time, boil filtered water in a deep saucepan and carefully lay out the funchose. Boil it for literally 3 minutes, and then recline it in a colander and pour over with ice water. We use it as a side dish, seasoning with sesame oil or soy sauce if desired.
How to cook noodles in a slow cooker?
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Cooking
If you urgently need to cook noodles, then we offer you a proven method. We put it in the multicooker bowl, fill it with cold water and select the "Soup" program. We pinpoint 15 minutes, and then discard it in a colander, rinse and heat with a melted piece of butter.
How to cook noodles in the microwave?
Ingredients:
Cooking
So, take a deep glass pan, pour water into it and add some salt. Heat for about 10 minutes to a boil and spread the pasta. We mix the contents, close the appliance door and cook for 10 minutes at maximum power. After that, we insist the products for 5 minutes, put them in a colander and add butter.