How To Make Buttered Noodles
After the pasta has been drained, place it in the pot and add the butter, cut into small pieces (about ¼ inch). Smaller pieces melt more quickly. Stir until it has melted all through the pasta.
After tasting the noodles, determine what more you would like to add. I usually add a bit more salt and some pepper. Chopped fresh parsley is nice too. I prefer flat-leafed Italian parsley over curly parsley, which is commonly used as a garnish. If you’d like, you can also add a small amount of garlic powder.
There you have it. Perfectly cooked, buttery noodles. Now, where did that beef stroganoff go?.
How Long To Cook Egg Noodles
I set my timer for the shortest time given. Thus, after bringing the pasta and water back to a boil and lowering the heat to a low, I set a timer for eight minutes if it says to “simmer for 8-10 minutes.” Then I start checking the noodles.
When the noodles are the right consistency, place a large colander in a sanitized sink. Pour the pasta and water into the colander.
By letting the water run down the drain, you will be discarding it. However, be aware that some recipes call for you to keep some water. To accomplish that, pour the necessary amount of water into the pot using a measuring cup with a handle before draining it. Set it aside until your recipe says to use it.
Most of the time, recipes ask you to reserve some pasta water to use in the sauce. Pasta water has a good salt flavor and some body, or slight thickness, from the pasta cooking in it. Add a little pasta water to your sauce to thin it out with seasoned hot water if it’s too thick.
After draining the pasta, put it back in the now-empty pot. Take note that the pot I use has a very heavy bottom. It can continue cooking food even when the heat is off because of how well it retains heat. Regarding pasta, when I return the drained pasta to the pot, the residual heat from the pot makes the pasta adhere significantly to the bottom.
Because of this, I rinse the pot’s bottom with a little bit of cool tap water before adding the pasta back in. This helps to cool the pot’s bottom sufficiently so that the pasta won’t stick to it, but because I only used about a cup of water, the pot stays warm, keeping the pasta warm for a short while.
After draining and adding the pasta back to the pot, you can continue with the recipe.
How to Make Homemade Egg Noodles
If you want to take your egg noodle game to the next level, consider making homemade egg noodles. To create the dough, combine eggs and flour in the right ratio. A common guideline is to use one egg per one cup of flour. Mix the ingredients until a dough forms, then knead it on a floured surface until it becomes smooth and elastic.
Work the dough to the appropriate thickness, then roll it out into a thin sheet with a rolling pin. Use a sharp knife or a pasta maker with a noodle attachment to cut the noodles. Although the thickness of the noodles is a matter of taste, thicker noodles tend to have a heartier texture and thinner noodles cook more quickly.
