Home Made Ramen Noodles from Scratch

I have always wanted to make my own noodles from  scratch. I finally had the time and mood to make it today. I got this recipe "Not Quite Nigella" and I thought that I would give this a try. I bought a bottle of lye water or Kansui when I went back to Malaysia for the summer holidays and this could not be a better time to use my kansui. The noodles turned out better than I had expected. The yellow color of the noodles is from the lye water. The noodles were springy and chewy. I will make stir fried ramen noodles for dinner today.

Ingredients

2 cups bread flour
1 tsp kosher salt

1/2 cup of lukewarm water
1 tsp of lye water

Directions

1. Add the bread flour and kosher salt into the mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mix it on low speed for         about 1 minute.
2. Mix the lukewarm water with the lye water and add it slowly to the flour.Keep kneading on the 
     lowest speed to combine. Add more water is necessary to form a dough and knead until you get a     
     smooth and elastic dough. It took me around 4-5 minutes
3. Wrap the dough in a cling wrap and leave it to rest for about 2-3 hours.
4. The dough should look soft and elastic after resting for about 3 hours.
5. Using a pasta machine, lightly flour the top of the machine and pass the dough through the widest 
     setting 1 and gradually move it to setting no. 3.
6. Now the dough is thin enough to be made into ramen noodles. Prepare a tray dusted with flour and 
     pass through the dough  the spaghetti setting.
7. Put a pot of water to boil and prepare a large bowl with cold iced water.
8. Put a small handful of noodles into the boiling water and cook it for 1 minute.
9. Remove and place it in the cold water and drain.
10. Rub a little oil on the noodles to prevent the noodles from sticking together.

The noodles are now ready for stir frying or you can even put into hot soup. Add some fish cake or Eomuk and it will taste amazing.