The most important thing for a bowl of braised noodles to be delicious is soft and tough, pulling up like a leather band and flinging up like a colorful ribbon of braised noodle slices. Today, I will share with you the braised noodle basic and noodle skills and recipes, authentic Henan practice, so you can eat at home also can eat authentic Henan flavor.

Braised noodles

Step 1: Make the noodles

To make braised noodles, you need to use high-gluten flour, or special flour for braised noodles. Pour the flour into a pot and add a pinch of salt, not so much, just a little.

The second step: kneading

With warm water and noodles, we slowly stirred first into the flakes, the flakes in the hands of the hand can be formed into a ball.

Then knead the flakes into a dough. The dough should be kneaded several times, knead for a few minutes, a few minutes to wake up, and then knead for a few minutes, and then wake up for a few minutes, and then repeat the operation three times, which is called three kneads and three wake-ups, this method of kneading, the dough is more dense and tight, and the texture will be more powerful.

The third step is to make the dough

Keep the kneaded dough awake for a few minutes, then roll it out into long strips, then pull it into even-sized dosages by hand, and roll all the dosages into long strips.

Then roll out the dough into a rectangular shape by pressing the dough into the center of the sheet with a rolling pin to make it easier to pull the dough out.

Take a flat stainless steel plate to hold the risotto, brush the bottom of the plate with vegetable oil to avoid the risotto from getting on the bottom of the plate. Take the rolled out pasta sheet and stretch it with your hands to arrange it flat in the stainless steel plate. Brush a layer of vegetable oil on the sheets to prevent them from sticking together or drying out.

Step 4: Molasses

Allow all the sheets to rise in this manner, then cover tightly with plastic wrap and let rise for two hours or more.

Step 5: Pulling the Noodles

After two hours, take out the molasses noodles, pinch the ends of the sheets with your hands, and with your pinky thumbs on top of the sheets, pull them apart from the center first, and then extend the strength towards the ends so that they are consistently thin and thick. Shake it off like this, more often if you like it thin.

After pulling the pasta sheet apart, let's see, when we were making the pasta sheet, we pressed down in the center of the pasta sheet, and now we'll tear it from this place where we pressed down, and it's easy to tear it into long strips.

Step 6: Cooking the pasta

We're making larger sheets of pasta, so two sheets will make a bowl, and it usually takes a little over a minute to cook. Once the pasta slices are cooked in the pot until they are nearly transparent and the center of the pasta slice has a slightly hard center, we can fish them out.

Eat with a little boiled tofu skin, green vegetables, you can also put fans, seaweed and so on according to their own preferences, and finally poured with mutton broth, that is, the authentic Henan chow mein.