Easy Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
- Noodles
- 320g all-purpose flour (about 2 1/4 cups)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 160 grams room temperature water (about 3/4 cup)
- For Cooking Noodles
- 4 quarts water
- 2 tablespoons sea salt
- sesame oil (to keep noodles from sticking together)
- Spicy Peanut Sauce
- 3 tablespoons teriyaki sauce
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon chili oil
- 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup or sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Preparation
Make the Dough
In a large bowl, mix the flour and salt together. Add the water and use a spoon or chopsticks to stir everything together
Once the water has been absorbed into the flour, use your hands to start gathering all the loose flour into the dough. The dough will seem very dry in the beginning, and that’s normal. Use your fingers to work the dry flour into the dough
When you get a large lump of dough, knead the dough on a dry surface. You do not need to add additional flour the surface. Continue kneading the dough for about 8 minutes. Again, the dough may seem dry for the first few minutes. Just use your fingers to squeeze the dough to hydrate it more evenly. After kneading for 8 minutes, you should have a relatively smooth ball of dough
Set the dough inside the bowl and cover it with a damp towel, a silicone lid, or plastic wrap. Let the dough rest for 45 minutes to 1 hour