Ramen Noodlesadapted from Tess s Japanese Kitchen

3 cups (415 grams) bread flour

cup ( 35 grams) wheat gluten
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 egg at room temperature
1 teaspoons Koon-Chun kansui ?diluted in 1 cup water
ut wet

less water if dough comes o

Combine the first four ingredients in a stand mixer bowl. Add the kansui to the
cup (or less) of room temperature water. Attach the dough hook to the machine an
d start mixing at low speed (if using a Kitchenaid, it s the speed 2). Slowly add
your kansui-water mixture. After it forms a ball, continue mixing for another 2
minutes. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate for an hour.
Divide the dough into four, work with one quarter and return the rest to the ref
rigerator. Flatten the dough using a rolling pin until it can pass easily throug
h your pasta attachment. Sprinkle flour on your dough and brush off excess with
a bench brush. Connect the lasagna attachment to the Kitchen Aid. On the widest
setting (1 on mine), pass the dough through it twice. Continue to flour as neede
d. Move the setting to a narrower setting (3 on mine) and pass it again twice. B
y this time the length of the dough is too long and I cut mine in half. I passed
the noodle dough twice through the next narrower setting (5 on mine).
Attach the linguini or spaghetti attachment to your mixer. Make sure your dough
is well-floured again and pass it through. Guide the noodle strands out and then
sprinkle lightly with flour and arrange in a swirl. Use immediately or freeze.
*These noodles cook in about 1 minute to 1 and 1/2 minutes depending on how much
noodles you drop into the boiling broth and if they were frozen to begin with.
On a test batch of my second attempt of making ramen, I noticed a slimy residue
upon lifting the noodles from the broth. I determined that this was the starchy
by-product of the extra flour or the noodle itself. By a stroke of luck, when I
watched Ramen Girl, I noticed that the chef poured hot broth over the noodles af
ter he just lifted the noodles out of the broth. I adapted this methodology and
it took care of the issue. I guess you do learn stuff when watching movies.