Handmade Noodles (手工面)

Ingredients

For one bowl:

  • flour 150g
  • water 75ml
  • salt 1/2 tsp
  • backing powder 1/2 tsp

Instructions

Prepare the dough

  1. Mix dry ingredients.
  2. Slowly add water and stir to moisture all of the flour.
  3. Knead the dough for 5-10min.
  4. Wrap the dough using cling wrap and let it rest for 1-2h.
  5. Knead the dough to remove all air.

Make the noodles

  1. With a rolling pin flatten it to ~2mm.
  2. Dust both sides of the dough with a good amount of flour.
  3. Carefully fold it into ~3-4 layers.
  4. Cut off noodles with the desired thickness.

Depending on the thickness, noodles take ~2-3min to boil.