Pasta Roller Ramen
Use a pasta roller and cutter attachment to make ramen noodles at home with just three common household ingredients.
Servings: 4 servings
Equipment
- Pasta roller and cutter
- Bench scraper
- Kitchen scale
- Oversized cutting board (optional but life changing)
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons kansui, "baked baking soda" see notes
- 240 grams all purpose flour
- ½ cup warm water
Instructions
- Heat a half cup of water in a microwave safe measuring cup.
- Mix in 2 teaspoons kansui, using a spoon to ensure clumps are broken up.
- Measure 240 grams of all purpose flour into a large mixing bowl. Pour in the kansui and use a wooden spoon to mix the water into the flour. Do NOT touch the kansui with your hands until it's all absorbed into the flour.
- Once the kansui is absorbed in, then use your hands to briefly knead and shape the dough into a ball. The dough will not be smooth at this point. Wrap it in plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes. Immediately wash your hands!
- After 30 minutes, unwrap the dough and knead for 3 minutes. Use a bench scraper to cut in half, return half of the dough to the plastic wrap.
- Use your hands or a rolling pin to roll the dough to about ½" thickness.
- *From here on out all instructions are for the KitchenAid pasta roller and press. Adjust directions accordingly if using another pasta roller.* Attach the pasta roller to the Kitchenaid. Turn to speed 2.
- Pass the dough through the widest setting (1). Fold into thirds. It will be raggedy looking.
- Repeat this pass and fold action 4-8 times, it will probably be closer to 8. Once the dough looks more supple and less raggedy, and is the width of the pasta roller, change the width setting to 2.
- Run the pasta through at setting 2. Do NOT fold into thirds anymore.
- Change the setting to 3, run the pasta through. Feel free to repeat any width again to ensure evenness. I used the bench scraper to cut the pasta sheets in half widthwise at this point.
- Move the setting to 4. I stopped after 4 and set the dough aside.
- Change the width back to 1 and repeat these steps with the other half of the dough.
- Remove the pasta roller, and put on the spaghetti cutter. Turn the KitchenAid's speed to 7.
- Run each sheet of dough through the spaghetti cutter. Divide each now cut sheet into about half and set aside in a little nest. Use a light touch here, do not mash the noodles together with any amount of pressure.
- Repeat for all dough sheets until you have done them all.
- Gently transfer the nests of noodles into airtight containers or put into boiling water immediately. Boil for 1 minute.
