Homemade Rice Noodles (瀨粉/老鼠粉)
This recipe for Homemade Rice Noodles features a round, slippery, smooth rice noodle with a slightly chewy texture that pairs well with soups or with toppings.
Ingredients
- 400 g rice flour 1 pkg, aka 米粉
- 140 g tapioca starch 菱粉
- 20 g wheat starch aka 小麥澱粉
- 250 ml water hot, boiling, aka 沸水
- 250 ml water cold, (冷水
- 30 ml vegetable oil plus extra for greasing the potato ricer, 菜油
Instructions
Make the dough:
- In a bowl, combine rice flour, tapioca starch and wheat starch.
- Divide the dry mixture into two portions and pour hot boiling water into one side of the flour mixture.
- Stir the mixture with wooden chopsticks, and mix well.
- Pour cold water into the other portion of the flour mixture.
- Stir the mixture and mix well.
- Combine the two portions of dough together and knead together, until the dough is not sticky.
- Cover dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 10 minutes at room temperature.
Make the noodles:
- Prepare a large basin of ice cold water for chilling the noodles.
- Bring a large pot of water up to a rolling boil.
- Grease a potato ricer with sesame oil, using a pastry brush.
- Place a small portion of dough into the potato ricer.
- Give the hot boiling water a swirl and push the dough through the potato ricer into the hot water. Touch the press into the hot water to release the noodles.
- Cook the noodles until they all float to the surface, a few minutes.
- Scoop out the noodles with a slotted spoon or spider and place into a colander or strainer in the basin of cold ice water. Rinse any excess starch off the noodles.
- Repeat with the remainder of the dough.
- Serve the rice noodles as desired, with soup, soy sauce and/or toppings.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6 Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 334
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 334kcal | 17% |
| Carbohydrates | 76g | 25% |
| Protein | 4g | 8% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.3g | 2% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.3g | 2% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0.3g | 2% |
| Sodium | 6mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 89mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 0.2g | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 11mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.