Homemade noodles

Yes, we did it. After a long time consideration, we finally bought a Marcato Atlas pasta maker on Sunday (Sep 28) which was made in Italy. We tried to make our first homemade noodle in Monday night with flour:wather=3:1 (v:v). The noodle just stuck to each other and barely cut separately.

We tried it again with flour:water = 4:1.2 (v:v) today and it works perfectly. Yeah!

This is for 4 people:

4 cups of plain flour (ps. this cup is rice cup which is about 160 mL)
1.1 cups of water
1 Tsp salt
-> knead the dough well
-> rise for 20 minutes inside microwave
-> separate the dough to small piece
-> pass it through the roller -> fold it (ps. repeat 5-6 times)
-> pass it through the roller on number 2, 3, and 4 to desired thickness
*(-> put some flour on the surface and pass it through the cutting rollers)
*(-> put some flour onto the noodle to avoid them stick together)
-> keep half of them in fridge for dinner on tomorrow

*: No need to add flour if using 1.1 cup of water. But it will be a little bit difficult to knead the dough. 1.2 cup of water will make the dough easier to knead, but then you will need to add some flour before passing through the roller of pasta maker.

We added broccoli and baked chicken into our noodle. It is fun and it does taste good. We might try to add something into the mixture to make different noodles in the future.

There are 2 meanings to make our own noodles. First, it is healthier and fresh. Second, it might save us some money. 1 Kg noodles is $3.6 and 2 Kg noodles is $6.99 in Brisbane's Asian store. 2 Kg flour is $1.85. We usually eat noodles 7 times per week. 2 Kg noodles is about 1 week. If 2 Kg flour is also for 1 week. Then we save about 5 dollars per week. Yeah! We will earn the pasta maker back after 20 weeks.