homemade whole wheat noodles

The kids made the BEST homemade whole wheat noodles tonight for our chicken noodle soup. So easy, and so fun! I would put my chicken noodle soup recipe here, because it was delicious, except I don't really know what I did! :) I boiled chicken then shredded it. Oh yeah- and I put a couple pieces of left over lime chicken from last week in it. Then I chopped up carrots and celery. Added parsley, onion, salt, pepper, soy sauce (thought I would try it)...and I think a couple of other things. VERY tasty! Fresh noodles only need to cook for about 5 minutes, so I added them very last after I let the soup simmer for about a half hour.

Whole Wheat Pasta

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups 100% whole wheat flour
2 eggs

1/4 tsp salt

Water, as needed

DIRECTIONS:Blend together flour, eggs and salt. Add water, one tablespoon at a time, until dough comes together, but is not sticky. Check after each tablespoon to see if dough has firmed. I used about 12 tbsp of water for this doubled recipe.

Roll dough as thin as you can, forming a rectangle (or, something that resembles a rectangle, if the kids are doing it!). If dough starts to spring back when rolled, let the dough rest for ten minutes and resume rolling.

Slice the dough as thick as you would like the noodles. I have heard you can roll it up in a jelly roll and do this too. For the kids it was easier to just slice it. We hung the strings over a bowl to dry.

Fresh noodles will only take about 4 minutes to cook — they are done when they float to the top of the water.

Makes two medium-sized portions of pasta...we, of course, doubled it for our brood.