Chinese noodles on a step by step recipe with 🍜 photo

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, pan, deep bowl, knife, measuring cup, tablespoon.

Ingredients

Sift a kilogram of wheat flour into a large bowl.
Add 600 ml of room temperature water to the flour and knead the dough. At this stage, the dough must be kneaded for 15-20 minutes.
Form the dough into a lump, cover with a lid or cling film and let it rest for 15 minutes.
Take the dough, knead it for 2-3 minutes, cover and leave for another 15 minutes.
Take the dough again, knead for 2-3 minutes and divide it into 4 parts.
From each part it is necessary to roll the ball and roll it into a cake 1 cm thick.
Grease each cake with vegetable oil on both sides.
Fold the cakes on top of each other, cover with cling film and leave for 10-15 minutes. At this stage, you need to put a pot of water on the stove, so that by the time the noodles are formed, it has already boiled.
After 15 minutes, take one cake, cut it into strips 0.5 cm thick.
Stretch each strip 80-90 cm, then fold three times and stretch again as well. The total length of one strip is 2-3 m.
Throw the stretched dough into boiling water immediately. One serving of noodles is cooked for 6-8 minutes.
Remove the finished noodles from boiling water using special tongs or a slotted spoon. The noodles are ready, serve at your discretion, bon appetit.

For such noodles, a prerequisite is flour with a high gluten content of at least 30%. If you know that there is not enough gluten in your flour, or you don’t know at all what quality your flour is, add 170 g of corn starch to the test, replacing it with this amount of flour and 15 g of soda. Sodium carbonate (soda) contributes to the release of gluten in the dough, and this will help the noodles to stretch better and not tear.
If desired, add a little salt to the dough, or boil in salted water.
The warmer the dough, the better it will stretch, so intensively knead the dough, warming it with your palms.
Serve Chinese noodles with shrimp, squid, mussels or a mix of seafood.
You can make noodles with stewed vegetables: tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, onions, carrots, zucchini and other vegetables are suitable for your taste.
Pour the noodles with meat broth with pieces of meat, and you get a light soup.
Any meat dressing for such noodles will also be appropriate. For example, chicken with soy sauce or pork in sweet and sour sauce.
Garnish the finished dish with sesame seeds or finely chopped herbs.