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INGREDIENTS
½ chicken
1 onion
8 cups cold water
Salt, to taste
Fresh Noodles
2 egg yolks
2 tbsp cold water
Salt
Flour
DIRECTIONS
- Place the chicken and onion in a large stock pot on the stove.
- Add 8 cups water.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat to simmer.
- Skim foam off the top of the broth.
- Allow cooking for one hour.
- Remove chicken from the pot take off skin and remove chicken meat.
- Shred chicken and add back into the soup.
- In a large bowl, beat 2 egg yolks.
- Add water and a touch of salt.
- Add enough flour to create a dough that is slightly firm and elastic.
- Knead the dough for 10 minutes.
- Roll dough out to ¼-inch.
- Allow sitting on the counter for 10 minutes.
- Flour the dough lightly and cut into thin strips.
- Allow the strips to sit for 10 more minutes.
- Bring 8 cups of water to a boil in a separate pot.
- Boil fresh noodles for two minutes.
- Drain and add to chicken soup.
- Cook soup for 10 to 15 more minutes.