Daily meals include soups. Hot liquid food helps digestion, is rich in various nutrients. It is not in vain that a sick person is primarily recommended to consume meat (especially chicken) broth.
There are a lot of kinds of soups - borscht, noodle soup, mushroom, pickle, cabbage soup, okroshka, ear, vegetable and so on. Each of them is useful in its own way. You can cook them on meat broth, you can take ordinary water as the basis. It is important that the ingredients used for the soup are of good quality and fresh. Ideally, if they are of their own production or purchased in trusted locations.
Compliance with the correct technology for preparing soups and the use of quality ingredients will allow you to cook delicious soups.
This article discusses how to make homemade noodle soup.
Beginning of work
In order to cook a delicious soup with homemade noodles, you need to choose the right meat. You can use any - chicken, beef, lamb, but you need to know some nuances:
- To prepare a fragrant broth with a pleasant golden color and droplets of fat, you can not use only sirloin meat. Otherwise, the soup will turn out to be fresh, with a grayish color.
- You need to use the bones, which contain substances that make the future broth rich and rich in color and taste.
- Do not put meat with skin. She makes the broth muddy.
- You should not put a lot of fat either, this will make the soup tasteless.
- Be sure to put the meat in cold water so that the aroma, taste and color pass into the broth gradually, as the water heats up.
Rinse the vegetables necessary for the soup (potatoes, carrots, onions), peel and chop. The form can be any, carrots can be cut into circles, and can be grated.
Salt is put after the broth boils. Ten minutes before the end of cooking the soup, you can add pepper and your favorite seasonings, prepared in advance homemade noodles. Greens are put when the dish is served to eat.
Recipe for homemade noodles for soup (with photo)
Everyone who at least once tried to eat a dish with homemade noodles will say that it is much tastier than the one bought in stores. Naturally, because it is made from proven ingredients, with love and warmth. There are many recipes (how to make homemade noodles for soup). Consider a few of them.
Classic version
Put one egg in a small bowl. Add approximately two tablespoons of water. Salt is optional, because noodles are added to the salted broth. Mix everything thoroughly.
Then flour is sifted through a sieve. First, mix with a spoon, then with your hands. The amount of flour depends on the variety and moisture. The dough should be tight and cool. After these procedures, the finished dough should rest for about half an hour.
The rested dough is kneading with hands, kneads well. Then it rolls out with a rolling pin. The layer should be 1-2 mm thick (the thinner the better).
Then sprinkle the dough with flour so that it does not stick to the hands, and roll it into a roll (not very tight, otherwise the roll walls will stick to each other and the noodles will not work). Cut with a sharp knife into thin strips.
The noodles are ready. Before adding to the broth, you need to shake it a bit and leave to dry.
It can take half an hour, or even an hour, to dry. Therefore, it is recommended to do noodles in advance. Some housewives do not put noodles in the meat broth with vegetables, but cook it separately in another pan. The reason for this is that if after shaking the flour on the noodles, the soup will turn out muddy.
There are other options.
Consider a step-by-step recipe for homemade noodles for mushroom soup. Cooking mushroom noodles is similar to the above, but there are some points.
Any mushrooms can be taken (preferably white mushrooms, champignons, boletus). They are thoroughly washed and finely chopped. Mushrooms are stewed in a pan with the addition of sunflower oil and sour cream (mayonnaise can be used). When the mushrooms become rosy and all the moisture in them evaporates, the fire is turned off.
The next step is to twist the mushrooms in a meat grinder.
Then add one egg, a little salt and seasoning to the pan. Everything is mixed and whipped. Then, 0.5 tablespoon of mayonnaise and grated mushrooms are added to the same pan. Everything is thoroughly mixed. Gradually add flour until a cool dough is obtained.
As in the first recipe, the dough should rest a bit, then roll out with a thin layer.
Then roll is made and mushroom noodles are cut into thin strips. For those who are not friendly with mayonnaise, you can advise using sour cream.
Cheese Noodle Soup
Some housewives cook noodles in olive oil and yolks. Yolks give noodles a pleasant appetizing golden color. And this is very important. Because any person, before starting to eat any dish, first "eats it with his eyes."
Homemade cheese noodles (a step by step recipe and a photo of the soup are included) are cooked, as well as mushroom noodles. The following ingredients are required: flour, one egg, 30 grams of cheese (hard variety), 0.5 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise, sunflower oil, seasonings needed.
In a deep saucepan, egg, salt and seasonings are mixed to taste. Beat with a mixer for one minute. Mayonnaise and grated cheese are driven into this mixture. Still whipping. By adding 1 tablespoon of flour, mix thoroughly. The dough is cool. Dip your palms with vegetable oil and knead the dough until it sticks off your hands. Then a thin layer rolls, which rolls into a roll. Then the noodles are cut. Leave the finished workpiece overnight for drying.
Mistresses note
Each housewife has her own recipe for cooking soup with homemade noodles. In addition to those described above, you can also offer such options for cooking noodles:
- No water added. Used: 1 cup flour, 3 eggs, salt - on the tip of a knife. The only negative of this recipe is that you have to use more eggs than for the usual classic recipe. But it's worth it. The dough is saturated. The cooking is simple. Flour is sifted and poured slide on the board. A depression is made in the middle. Salt and beaten eggs are added there. Everything is mixed up. The dough is ready.
- With the addition of milk. The recipe is the same as the classic version, only milk is added instead of water. The further cooking process is identical to that described above.
- With citric acid. The dough is prepared according to the recipe: 2 cups flour, 1 egg, 0.5 cup water, salt - to taste, a pinch of citric acid. Beat the egg, then pour salt and citric acid. Then water comes into use, followed by flour. We must try not to form lumps. The noodle holder is ready.
- If you want, you can paint the noodles. For example, to get green noodles, you can use spinach puree instead of water. And to get red - tomato or beetroot juice.
- Noodles can be cut into more than just thin strips. Some love thick or sliced diamonds. You can use curly knives.
- In order for the chopped noodles to dry faster, you can resort to using the oven (hold it for half an hour at a temperature of 60 degrees).
- If desired, you can make buckwheat noodles (buckwheat is added instead of wheat flour) or rice (rice flour is added).
Cooking Delicious Noodle Soup
Homemade noodle soup (pictured below) is a versatile dish that is easy to prepare and insanely delicious. For its preparation, the broth from good selected meat and seeds is first cooked. As soon as the broth boils, salt is added to it (1 tablespoon). Next, the broth is cooked over low heat. Depending on the meat, the cooking time is different (chicken is cooked for an hour, beef - one and a half to two hours). When this time has passed, the meat is removed from the broth and ready vegetables are added there. On high heat they cook for about ten minutes. Next up is the prepared noodles. Another 5-7 minutes, and a delicious soup is ready. Added spices, bay leaves, herbs will enhance the taste of the dish.
Tips & Tricks
Noodles can be made without eggs. For this, turmeric (a little less than half a teaspoon) is added to the flour (100 grams). Mixes up. Hot water (50 degrees) and sunflower oil (10 grams) are added. Knead the dough.
Parsley, basil, dill are suitable as greens. You can add chopped cloves of garlic to the finished dish. When serving noodle soup with chicken, decorate it with boiled eggs at home. In addition to onions and carrots, you can add corn (in any form), dumplings, mushrooms, cabbage, pepper and so on to the noodle soup. There are a lot of options, and each ingredient will decorate in its own way, add flavor to the future soup.
Afterword
The stores have a huge amount of different pasta. But self-made noodles will be much more nutritious, aromatic and tastier. Purchased noodles can not be compared with homemade, because it is made from proven and safe ingredients. Despite the fact that there are few ingredients in noodle soup, it will turn out to be healthy, satisfying and in demand. Therefore, any housewife must be able to cook this soup and keep a couple of (or maybe more) recipes in her chest.