Old Fashioned Homemade Noodles (Thick, Soft, No Machine)

Who loves old-fashioned egg noodles? I DO! Learn how to make homemade noodles with this super easy recipe. They’re SO simple and SO tasty that you’ll want to make them to go in every soup. And you can!

Tender homemade noodles cooked in your own pot of soup is one of life’s simple pleasures. They can turn a cold cruddy day into a day that you remember, that’s for sure. I love to make mine nice and thick but you can roll them out thin if you like, the only thing that changes is the cooking time. I will walk you through every step including cooking times, and I can help you troubleshoot problems if you have them. Ready? Let’s go!

Your family with thank you.

You don’t need ANY fancy equipment For Noodle making

Every single step of the recipe can be made by hand, I do it all the time, it just takes a little more work. You need a mixing bowl, a rolling pin and a pizza wheel OR a paring knife.

You can use a standalone pasta rolling machine if you have one. It takes the work out of rolling out the dough.

But if you happen to have a Stand Mixer like the KitchenAid you can use it and noodle making just got a little easier. And if you happen to have the noodle making attachment for the KitchenAid then noodle making is even easier.

No matter your chosen method I am walking you through every step in this post.

How to Make homemade noodles

Noodle dough is easy to make! It’s a simple as:

1. add the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl and giving them a stir
2. make a well in the center of the flour mixture then add the liquids, and stir until a dough forms
3. knead the dough
4. cover and rest the dough

That’s the dough made. Now the tricker part comes with rolling out the noodles but it’s not that hard either.

Rolling Out Homemade Noodles

Rolling out the dough can be the “hard part” and it’s not that hard. You can roll out the dough for homemade noodles with a machine, an attachment for your mixer, or by hand with a rolling pin. Just remember you should dust the dough and your tools with flour to keep anything from sticking.

Remember this, noodles get thicker when cooked. Roll your dough out to a general thickness of about an 1/8 of an inch. This makes a hearty old fashionend noodle that says I was made by hand.

Of course you can cut them as thick or thin as you like. I am a chunky noodle kind of person but like I always say make food you’re going to actually like, or in other words “you, do you!”

Be aware that thin dough can stick to itself more when resting before cutting AND it is more prone to tearing. Maybe those problems led me to like chunky noodles better or I’m LAZY, shhhhh don’t tell anyone.

Once you have all the dough rolled out in sheets we move on to cutting noodles, but for now LET’S ROLL!

Hand Rolling With A Rolling Pin

1. divide the dough in 4 pieces, cover the remaining three with a damp paper towel to keep them from drying out
2. before rolling out the dough dust the dough and your work surface and rolling pin with flour
3. hand flatten the dough ball to a circle
4. using the rolling pin roll out a long sheet of pasta
5. when it’s as thin as you like it, dust it with flour and set aside
6. repeat with the remaining dough

Rolling out noodles with a Pasta Machine:

1. simply follow the manufacturer’s directions
2. divide the dough in 4 pieces, cover the extra dough with a damp paper towel while rolling the one piece out
3. flatten the dough ball flat and dust it with flour feeding it into the machine, dust it with flour
4. roll big sheets first the your desire thickness, start with a thicker sheet and gradually roll it as thin as you like
5. then you can cut by hand or if your machine has blades you can machine cut the noodles as well, dust with flour often as needed to keep things from sticking

Rolling out Noodles With A Stand Mixer Attachment:

1. it’s really the same process divide the dough in four parts, cover the remaining dough with a damp paper towel
2. flatten the dough ball flat and dust it with flour before feeding it into the machine
3. roll out in long thick sheets first several times, then run the dough through on thinner and thinner settings until you get the dough the preferred thickness
4. dust the completed sheet with flour and lay it aside for cutting, if dusted properly you can gently fold it over itself
5. roll the remaining dough before cutting noodles
6. you can use the cutting tool on your mixer attachment or cut them by hand

Cutting Homemade Noodles

Now that you’ve done the “hard work” rolling out the dough it’s time to cut your noodles. The only real work here is deciding how long you like your noodles. Sometimes I prefer a short noodle and sometimes I like them long.

Cutting Noodles By Hand

• dust your work area with flour
• dust your pizza wheel or paring knife with flour
• cut noodles your desired size
• let the noodles lay where they are until you’re ready to use them

Cutting Noodles By Machine

1. Set up the machine to cut noodles and not sheets
2. make sure the noodle dough is dusted with flour
3. make sure the machine is dusted with flour
4. roll the sheet of dough through the machine
5. as the noodles come out of the machine lay them out to dry while you cut the remaining sheets

Drying The Noodles

I know! You’re thinking “OMG just let me cook these noodles!” And you can in just a minute! If you can be patient and let them dry a bit even just where they are after being cut you’ll be rewarded with noodles that don’tclump up when dropped in a pot of soup. So let them rest, clean up the kitchen, make sure your soup is ready to roll and before you know the 15 minute wait time is OVER.

Cooking Homemade Noodles

A lot of people ask how long to cook homemade noodles and that’s a fair question! And the answer isn’t really clear because while the answer is anywhere between 8-12 minutes and that variation lies in the difference in thickness of noodles and how long your noodles are.

• Drop your noodles into a pot of simmering soup and stir after each handful goes in
• keep the soup at a high simmer and let the noodles cook, stirring occasionally
• start checking for doneness at around the 5 minute mark, take out a noodle, cool it and tastes it, it’s it’s soft all the way through it’s done and ready to if it’s not soft and cooked let the noodles continue to cook another minute or two and check again
• if your noodles were especially thin you might start checking as early 3-4 minutes, it really depends on the thickness of the dough, the width you cut them, and the length

Don’t walk away from your noodles if you can help it, you need to keep the pot simmering and check the noodles for doneness as needed.

If you’re looking to try your hand and another kind of noodle, try these Homemade Udon Noodles!

What Can Go Wrong With Homemade Noodles

There are few things that can go wrong, I’ve done them all, let me share what I know.

• My noodle dough jammed the machine: you didn’t pat the dough out to flat first
• My noodle dough jammed the machine: the dough wasn’t dusted with flour
• Noodle dough jammed the machine: you tried to go too thin with the roller and it got stuck, go slowly and use each level of the roller to gradually decrease the thickness
• Noodles stick together when drying: let them dry in piles but they weren’t dusted with flour
• Noodles stick together when cooked: didn’t let them rest after cutting and just threw them in the pot
• My soup is super floury and thick after adding my noodles: shake off excess flour when adding noodles
• My noodles are so thick: the dough wasn’t rolled thin enough, noted for next time, roll them thinly!

What to Do With Homemade Noodles

• Add them to ANY soup you’re making
• make Beef and Noodles
• Chicken and Noodles
• Cook them in simmering salted water, drain, add butter and ENJOY!

Got Leftovers?

Homemade noodles are pretty dang sturdy and they reheat just fine. So store any leftover soup in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days and reheat as needed.

Leftover noodles cooked and dressed with butter can be store the same way. Heat in a small pan with a little butter to loosen them up.

How To Freeze Homemade Noodles

I think if you want to freeze homemade noodles you should let them dry until they’re flexible but not crispy dry. Then lay them on a baking sheet and freeze them. Once frozen slide them into a ziploc bag and store in the freezer. Pour them directly into a simmering soup and add 1-2 minutes to the cook time to offset them being frozen. This isn’t something I’ve done but that’s the exact method I would do when and if I planned to freeze the noodles ahead of time.

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