If you were to ask me what my favorite family recipe is, I would tell you … my mama’s homemade chicken ‘n noodles. It’s a yearly request for my birthday dinner and is the one side dish during the holidays that I look forward to the most.
Growing up, I watched my mom make these noodles hundreds of times but never truly appreciated the love she put into making them until now. You could just as easily buy a package of egg noodles at the grocery store, but they don’t come with the comfort that a homemade side dish does. This Thanksgiving, we’ll be serving up this very special pasta dish I’m sharing with you and I hope that you’ll give it a try to share with your own family during your homemade holiday feast.
Last week during my homemade holiday feast introduction I mentioned how a stand mixer is the foundation of your kitchen, well this recipe is just another example of how it can be used to prepare your family meals in ways that you might not have considered. While I kept the preparation simple by using the dough hook to create my pasta, KitchenAid also offers a number of pasta making attachments that can be used with your mixer should you decide to make pasta more frequently.
Making the Homemade Noodles Side Dish
Noodle Dough Ingredients
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Broth Ingredients
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The night before the big holiday feast, you’ll want to make the noodles so they have ample time to dry. In fact, you could even make this side dish two days before and reheat it for dinner.
Using your KitchenAid stand mixer and the whisk, mix the eggs, cream and salt for about 30 seconds on speed 2.
Replace the whisk with the dough hook and on speed 2, add 1 cup of flour.
Once incorporated, add the remaining flour 1/3 of a cup at a time until the dough pulls away from the bowl and forms a ball around the hook.
Tip: Visit your local hardware store and pick up a large canvas drop cloth. These large cloths can be cut to fit your countertop and are perfect for rolling dough on!
Lightly flour a canvas cloth and using a rolling pin, roll the dough until it’s about 1/8 of an inch in height. It will be thin, but not thin enough to be transparent.
Allow the noodle dough to dry for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
Using a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut the dough into long strips 1/2 in to 1 inch wide.
Over high heat, in a large pot, combine all of the broth ingredients and allow to boil uncovered for 1 hour.
Remove the chicken and vegetables and set aside in a large dish and cover.
Add the noodles, a few at a time to the broth and stir frequently to prevent them from sticking to the bottom. Continue boiling for about 30 minutes or until fork tender. You can also add a packet of McCormick’s chicken gravy powder just before serving if you like a thicker gravy to serve the noodles in.
Serve the noodles as a side dish and save the chicken and vegetables for a meal later in the week or make this as a complete meal anytime your family is craving a comforting homemade chicken n noodles dinner.
Disclosure – The KitchenAid Artisan Mixer featured in this recipe was provided to me free of cost by KitchenAid. Opinions expressed are my own and are not influenced by monetary compensation.
Cat,
Making homemade noodles is one of the foods on my list to try. It looks like it’s quite easy to do.
I also like the clear bowl on your mixer.
Jennifer, I’m absolutely shocked you’ve never made noodles before. I do hope you give these a try, it’s my favorite recipe of my mother’s.
The mixer you’re using looks awesome, much better than mixing by hand! I’ve never made noodles (or any other pasta) either and I’d love to try making pasta. Could this recipe be adapted to be done by hand? the dish looks very tasty. Is it tastier the second day, like a soup?
Val, I’m sure you could do it by hand, I imagine my mom did before she got her stand mixer. If I remember right (I was young) I believe she used a fork to mix the dough. And yes, I actually love the noodles even more the second day.
Cat, wow. This looks so comforting. Using the drop cloth is an awesome idea!!
I’ve always wanted to make home made noodles and that recipe sounds delish. I don’t own a mixer but I always thought you could do the good ole fashion way and use your hands
I’ve always wanted to make my own noodles, that looks fantastic!!
This sounds so yummy!!! I am going to have to try this!!!!
We’ve made pasta before. It’s fun, and a lot different (I think better) than the dried pasta from the store.
What kind of KitchenAid stand mixer do you have? An artisan?
I remember making noodles with my Mom when I was a kid. They were so good! We use to roll the dough into a cylinder (like when you make cinnamon rolls), slice the cylinder, then unroll the noodles. It made them really easy to slice and they were all uniform size. I’ve never made noodles and would love to give it a try. Thanks for you recipe!
Beautiful pictures and presentation! The recipe sounds delicious!
Your picture made my hungry and homesick all at the same time. This is true comfort food. I think my family would love it. I’ve always wanted to make my own pasta. With the gravy this recipe reminds me of dumplings, which I love. Great website, by the way!
My daughter loves anything pasta – how cool it would be to make homemade noodles for her!
my grandmother was the noodle maker in our family. She was a special person and boy did she ever make delicious noodles I have tried to make them like hers and mine do not taste the same as I remember. I love the pasta attachements these would make it so much easier and my kids would love it
I made homemade noodles, an extra large batch so I could freeze some. When I took that particular batch out of freezer, they fell apart. Boo Hoo. I am going to try your recipe and see if it works any better. Thanks for sharing.
Ive never made homeade noodles before. I wonder if they taste much different and also how difficult it is. I love fresh versus processed so this will have to go in my book of tryouts!
We make homemade noodles all the time and the KitchenAid mixer is a huge timesaver. I used to make them by hand. Your recipe is very similar to the one that I use.
I would love to be able to make my own pasta
Homemade Noodles are one of my husband’s favorite dishes. Chicken noodle soup is a staple in our family, but when I thicken the broth to the consistency of gravy and serve it over mashed potatoes, he is in heaven. Thanks for sharing your family recipe.
That’s a lot easier than I thought it would be and not a ton of ingredients at all! I actually have all the stuff in my kitchen that I would need to make the noodles. Well except the mixer :)
you could make your own stock from the neck, heart, liver, etc and then mix flour, eggs and some stock together to make dumplings :)
This looks delish! :)
Homemade pasta is the best!
I make my mom’s homemade Chicken and Noodles. She would roll out the dough roll it up like a jelly roll and slice. My job when I was a kid was to toss the sliced pinwheel noodles and they’d open up into the final product that got put in the broth. They were sooo good. Of course she always had to make extra since I’d sneak and eat them raw.
I never even thought of making my own noodles, I guess I have a lot to learn! I have some yummy soup recipes that these would be awesome in. I’m going to have to try this!
WOW! This mixer is so much more than a mixer! Its magic~ I am making homemade turkey noodle soup tonight for my sick 2 year old and would LOVE to try to make pasta from scratch. Thanks!
Those noodles are making my mouth water. We didn’t have noodles at Thanksgiving this year and it was just sad. Sad I tell you. Homemade noodles are where it’s at!
I’ve never made homemade noodles before. It really doesn’t look difficult with the KitchenAid mixer!
OH that looks so easy and YUMMY!!!!
I have never made these nor had the ‘gear’ to do it but I’d love to try this recipe AND be able to make homemade noodles for chicken noodle veggie soup…even to use up our leftover turkey that just went into the freezer to pull out for soup on a cold winter day!
Wow, I’ve never made homemade noodles but it sounds fabulous! I’d love to make this for my family. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Some neighbors aren’t feeling well and this recipe sounds like it would be good for the whole family. Thanks!
The noodles looks so yummy. I am tempted now to go and make some homemade noodles.
Love the idea of homemade noodles!!!!
You are a goddess to me, making your own noodles!! I have celiac and have to buy gluten-free noodles at the store. I’m not sure I would ever be brave enough to make my own!!
This looks like a pretty simple thing to do. I have been wanting to make my own homemade noodles for a long time, but didn’t think I could!
I love this detailed post!
I like that this recipe seems very involved but only requires one extra attachment aside from the mixer. If you told me I could make homemade noodles with just the Hook attachment I would say you’re crazy! Thanks for another great receipe.
I love love love pasta. This sounds de-lish!
That looks crazy good. I always thought making your own noodles was so hard. You made it look easy! I’m not sure if I could do it by hand! Your mom is tougher than I am!
I like to use semonlina flour when I make noodles.
This is amazing! I couldn’t use this recipe because I am gluten free but the thought of making my own GF pasta is making my mouth water!
That soup looks delicious. I’ve never made homemade noodles before, it always seemed kind of intimidating to me. But your recipe makes it seem pretty easy, especially if you have a KitchenAid Stand Mixer to use. I need to get one of those.
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That soup looks delicious. I’ve never made homemade noodles before, it always seemed kind of intimidating to me. But your recipe makes it seem pretty easy, especially if you have a KitchenAid Stand Mixer to use. I need to get one of those.
Great grams always made her own noodles. They’d be draped all over the dining room to dry. I recently ran across her recipe and would love to make them. This recipe inspires me.
I’ve always wanted to try homemade noodles, but thought they were too hard. This looks really easy, even easier if I had the KA unit and attachment :)
Never made my own noodles before! My kids would absolutely love this!
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I bet my family would love these!
wow this is dreamy! I looooove pasta and I love home made noodles even more! I would use this all the time!
That’s awesome! I tried making pasta once, my bread machine has a setting, didn’t work out so well though. Must try it again.
This is exactly why I want a Kitchenaid mixer! Mmmm! Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup with easy simply cut and uniform egg noodles.
Oh, man! You are making me hungry! That looks sooo good!
I would love to try that recipe!
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I’ve always wanted to try making noodles. My sisters GLuten intolerant so I wonder if rice or potato based flowers would work as well.
Oh these would be wonderful in my chicken soup! yummy
Oh boy, does this look familiar. We were members of the Moose Club and we made homemade noodles for an annual event every year. I miss those days. we moved where there is no club so we miss being involved with all the celebrations we were involved in. This mixer sure would have been nice to have back then. Holy Cow, I just got to thinking, that was 22 years ago!
These noodles remind me of the ones my great-Polish-grandmother made by hand ` melt in your mouth yummy! My 11 year old loves homemade chicken noodle soup. This noodle recipe would be perfect in soups.
Thank you so much for sharing!
I’ve been working on learning to make noodles – i tried gnocchi and I’m working my up to ravioli (once I get a ravioli mold, that is!)
This is a perfect dish for my family and I, the one thing we would all enjoy together.
My mom and I love making homemade noodles…when I am home for Christmas we are going to try this recipe!
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I tried your receipe w/out the mixer, but it was fabulous I have a hand mixer with one beater,took a while but it was a hit. Thanks sorry should have taken a picture
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I would love this because my mixer came from the dollar store and it doesnt work quiet so well and i nweed it to make my pumpkin roll!!
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I am surprised that the noodles have to cook for 30 minutes tho. I always thought that fresh noodles did not take that long to cook. That isn’t a typo is it?
I always make turkey noodle soup after thanksgiving. I will have to give your homemade noodles a try, thanks.
I adore making homemade biscuit strips for my homemade pot pie, but making noodles has always been a dream of mine. I love italian style cooking. What an awesome way to use the mixer!
I haven’t made noodles by myself ever. Of course I don’t have a mixer so I haven’t really wanted to put forth the extra effort it would take with out a mixer. I would love to try it sometimes though. I could make more things with wheat.
I never thought I’d be able to make homemade noodles (despite being Italian!) but you make it look possible.
This sounds alot like the recipe my grandmother used for what she called chicken and “dumplings”. I just loved it.
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I have always wanted to make my own noodles
Too cool. I had no idea that KitchenAid had those attachments for noodle making. Love it.
I would love to make homemade noodles. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while now, but I haven’t done it yet!!
I’ve never made homemade noodles – but you make it look easy!!
Mmmmm I love pasta, and that looks very delicious!!
I love making my own fresh pasta! Although the mixing can get a little tedious. I’d love to have a Kitchenaid mixer for things like this – not to mention the rolling and cutting attachments!
looks easy!!
My mother used to make homemade chicken and noodles when we were little and I remember helping her cut the noodles. This dish is one of my favorite childhood memories but I have never had the time (or patience) to repeat it. With a KitchenAid mixer and the pasta-making attachments, homemade noodles would no longer be a memory from my past.
Oh my goodness, Cat… I think those home made noodles to take a lot of love to make. Seem like a rather labor intensive process for sure. I’m sure they are worth their weight in gold though.
I’ve never made my own pasta, but I’ve always wanted to try. One of these days..