yammmi-Homemade Maggi Noodles!!

Ingredients 

To make Maggi Noodles

1 cup all purpose flour or maida

1 tbsp. vital wheat gluten (optional)

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. oil

Water 

To make spicy masala taste maker

2 tbsp. dry onion powder or dry minced onions

1 tbsp. dry garlic powder or dry minced garlic

1/2 tbsp. red chilli powder (or according to your taste)

1/2 tbsp garam masala powder

1/8 tsp. turmeric powder

1/2 tsp. citric acid granules

1/2 tsp. cornstarch

1 tbsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. oil

To make Noodles:

• Mix flour, wheat gluten (optional), salt, baking soda, oil in a bowl. Use vital wheat gluten that is available in an grocery store. Wheat gluten helps in making the noodles elastic and long without breaking them. If using whole wheat flour, adding wheat gluten is very important. Add little water at a time a make a stiff dough. Dough should be stiff. Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes to develop gluten and make the dough elastic. Cover and let the dough aside for 20 minutes.
• Use a pasta maker with thin noodle attachment to extrude thin noodles. Use dry flour to avoid noodles from sticking to each other. If you dough is not stiff and hard, the noodles will tend to stick and clump up to one another. I use my Kitchen-aid pasta maker attachment with the mixer to make long noodles. It is very simple. You would use the noodles immediately or let them dry.
• If you do not have a pasta maker, use traditional Indian Sev press. Sev press has a disc with tiny hole to spin long noodles. Since this is manual, it takes lot of efforts to press the dough into noodles. It would be ideal if someone could help you hold the press while you could press the dough. Use dry flour to avoid noodles from clumping up and sticking to each other. You would use the noodles immediately or let them dry.

To make spicy masala mix:

• Mix all the ingredients except oil in a bowl. Heat oil in a pan. Add all dry ingredients and mix well for a minute. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool. Grind to form a fine powder. TIP: If you do not want to use citric acid granules, you could use 1 tbsp. lime juice after the noodles have been cooked in water.  

To make Maggi:

• Use 3 cups of water to boil all noodles made from this recipe. 
• Boil water. Cook veggies of your choice.
• Add noodles to boiling water. Cook for 3-4 minutes. 
• Add tastemaker spicy masala.
• Cook till water evaporates and maggi thickens as per your consistency. Do not overcook noodles. they may get lumpy. Remember cooking process continues even after you turn off the heat. 
• Serve in a bowl and enjoy not "2 Minute Noodles".