Getting back to basics will help us all Reclaim the Kitchen. Here is one of my family’s favorite “save dinner” recipes… Simple Egg Noodles.
Do you remember back in February when I wrote a post about Wolf’s “Reclaim the Kitchen” initiative? I’ve been thinking a lot about that ever since…about why families have been moving away from family mealtime. Growing up, eating at home as a family was the norm. Now? We have over scheduled our lives, and I believe, really over complicated family mealtime.
I know in my house, when we hit the drive through it’s because of my lack of planning. Maybe I didn’t set the meat out to thaw or forgot to grab the key ingredients for a recipe at the store. Either way, if I don’t plan, dinner at home doesn’t happen.
The other thing I have a BIG tendency to do is over complicate family mealtime. Especially as a food blogger, I’m always trying new recipes. Sometimes I forget that getting back to basics…returning to those simple recipes we grew up with… will do just fine. There’s no need for dinner to be a difficult, complicated, affair. There are so many resources at our fingertips with online recipe tools, magazines and cookbooks, we forget that our best recipes are the ones we rarely turn to… the ones our grandmas, our grandmas grandmas, etc. fed their families with for decades using staple ingredients they had on hand from their gardens and pantries.
Easy Egg Noodles, one of the simplest recipes I know, is a recipe that has been passed down from generation to generation in my family. You’ve seen it feature in my Mom’s Homemade Chicken and Noodle recipe, but we use this recipe for so much more. Sometimes I just toss them with butter and a little bit of garlic and we enjoy them as a side with chicken. Other times I might throw in some chopped sautéed tomatoes, basil and parmesan and we have a fresh pasta dish for dinner. Either way, this homemade egg noodles recipe is one example of how I get dinner on the table when I forget to plan. It’s my way of Reclaiming the Kitchen.
I’ve also been teaching my kids how to make homemade egg noodles because I want them to understand that delicious food doesn’t have to be complicated. Homemade egg noodles are incredibly easy and almost like magic… salt, eggs and flour come together to form something quite delicious!
I’d love for you to head over to Wolf’s “Reclaim the Kitchen” website and check out all the incredible ideas they have for how you can take simple steps to changing the statistics surrounding family mealtime. In the meantime. I hope you enjoy this Easy Egg Noodle recipe! It’s one of our family favorites.
Easy Homemade Egg Noodle Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour plus additional for dusting the board
- 4 eggs beaten
- 1/4-1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 cups chicken or vegetable broth
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk your eggs. Add the salt and whisk again. Next, add the flour. Stir the mixture with a fork until flour is completely incorporated and the dough is stiff.
- Flour a large bread board / cutting board heavily. Dump your dough mixture out onto the floured board. Knead additional flour into the dough. Unlike pie crust (you don’t want to work pie crust too much) you want to continue to add flour to the dough until it is thick and smooth in texture. Just work with it and use your instincts.
- Roll out the dough (make sure your board is well floured so your dough won’t stick) until very thin. Once your dough is rolled out, using a pizza cutter, slice your dough into thin vertical strips. Make a couple of slices horizontally until your noodles are a desired size.
- Bring a large stock pot with broth to a boil. Once boiling, add your noodles to the pot, one at a time, stirring so they don’t stick together. Once all of your noodles are in the pot, reduce the heat, and simmer for 20 minutes.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored conversation on behalf of Wolf. All opinions are my own.
Great rundown for getting started with egg noodles without having much prior experience.
Oh, this recipe reminds me of my grandma. These just look so fabulous!
This looks like such a fun project! How many eggs do you use?
Kari
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These look so good (gimme a little butter and I’ll eat the whole bowl) and I love the pictures of your girls helping make a family recipe. 🙂
I overcomplicate too – so many times we’ll get carryout when we could have just had something simple like soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Love this reminder. 🙂
I adore this campaign, and I love that your girls are making egg noodles. So good and simple.
I love seeing your girls in the kitchen. I recently just read that mealtime shouldn’t be just about the time we sit down and eat; consider the time spent together getting the meal on the table. That time is often more valuable than the time at the table eating. The process not the product is what I like to say….
This is a great cause I’m glad your spreading the word about eating 2 gather ;D
I’m always trying out new things and sometimes my boyfriend reminds me that the classics are the ones he craves the most. I cannot wait to incorporate your family’s egg noodle recipe into our collection and make it a family classic in our house too 🙂
Oh my, these look so delicious! Now I want a bowl of chicken soup with these swimming in it!
I’m sending this recipe to my mom – she was just talking about egg noodles! We didn’t grow up eating them but they just scream comfort.
Oh my word! I love homemade noodles and these look amazing!
This is simply the best. The photos of your girls making this family recipe is really something special!
This recipe is perfect! My grandmother made the same noodles to go with stewed chicken on holidays…the pot never got to the table, it was already eaten by the time the turkey or ham was ready to go. She would get an “old stewing hen”, cook it til it was falling apart, then adding the noodles–what a wonderful memory. I think you would have to ask for an older chicken nowadays, all I ever see is young hens.
Do you ever freeze these noodles? Any advice on freezing/thawing? They look absolutely delicious! Thanks for the recipe.
I was wondering the same thing! I work two jobs and not much time to cook. I made these for Christmas dinner (best ever!) and my son, who would rather eat cereal and pizza rolls, told me he LOVED them! I would love to be able to make a bunch and freeze for a quick dinner. I tried drying them and those didn’t turn out so well… but he fresh ones I made for dinner were PERFECT!
I have been freezing homemade egg noodles since I learned to make them. 🙂 Probably since early 70’s 🙂 They stay good in the freezer for 6-8 months. If they last that long! 😉 Just make sure they are dry enough to break, then put in Ziploc bags. I started adding, poultry seasonings, a little bullion, salt and pepper, parsley, chives, or other seasonings , to my eggs when I make homemade noodles. Basil and garlic for Italian flavor, or parsley and S & P for buttered noodles. I like my noodles to taste good too!!!
That’s awesome, Shelly! Do you dry them just by leaving them out on the counter after you’ve cut them or do you have a special rack? It’d be really a great idea as a gift to make a little frozen chicken noodle soup kit up for friends! I love this idea!
my mom made egg noodles and added them to northern beans. brings back good memories.
Oh now I want to try that combination! Did she put anything else in it, or just the noodles and beans?
My mother in law does this and stirs in about a cup of sour cream just before serving,out of this world . Her od family recipe.
These noodles are so ridiculously delicious!, with the perfect texture!
I love the idea of making homemade noodles with m y boys. And you’re so right. Good food doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s all about the love, right?
Made this last night to go along with homemade chicken noodle soup. Easy and delicious addition! Will be adding to the rotation~ thank you for sharing!!
Thank you so much, Dawn, for letting me know! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. You might also like this recipe for my mom’s Homemade Chicken and Egg Noodles! It’s comfort food at its finest. https://www.dineanddish.net/my-moms-homemade-chicken-and-eggnoodles/
What if I want to make a bigger batch? Just double the ingredients or is there different measurements?
HI Kim!
Yes! You don’t have to double the broth (but you do want to make sure you have enough broth to fully cover the noodles while cooking). In this recipe for my Moms Homemade Chicken and Egg Noodles I share how I increase the ingredients depending on the number of people I am serving. That may give you more detailed instructions! Here you go – https://www.dineanddish.net/my-moms-homemade-chicken-and-eggnoodles/