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17 Egg Noodle Recipes That Are Comforting and Delicious

Updated on March 12, 2024

Once you start to imagine all the possibilities for this staple ingredient, you’ll be eager to start noodling.

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Our Best Ideas for Egg Noodles

We always know to throw a bag of egg noodles in the shopping cart when we’re making stroganoff, but we recommend also tossing an extra one in there to save the day some evening when you’re stumped about what to make for dinner. Where buttered pasta might read as kid food, somehow buttered egg noodles feel like more of an effort has been made (triply so when topped with a chopped fresh herb, but in a pinch, those dried chives in your spice rack will do the trick!). They are a must when your main includes any kind of gravy, but they can also step up to be part of the main dish, themselves. Once you start to imagine all the possibilities, you’ll be eager to start noodling.

Wondering where to start? The classic! If there’s a meal that buttery, herbed egg noodles don’t go with, we’d like to hear about it. This is the gateway dish for picky kids. Start with buttered noodles, plain, then next time one or two herbs might be allowed to land on them. In a few years, the kids won’t be as grumpy if a smidge of the main dish’s gravy lands on there... and next thing you know they’ll be 15 years old and eating the whole pot of the main dish and you’ll be wishing you could go back to the inexpensive-dinner years when all they ate was seven buttered noodles.

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The Best Beef Stroganoff

The iconic pairing of stroganoff and egg noodles rivals that of mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, or bread and butter. Stroganoff, a stew with Russian origins that gets its signature zip from a mustardy, beefy sour cream sauce, would be quite irresistible even if served on rice, plain pasta, bread, or frankly, a pair of tennis shoes, but there is simply no denying that the egg noodles cling to that unctuous sauce in such a divine way that we would never dream of serving it with anything else.

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Sour Cream Noodle Bake

This noodle bake marries family-friendly players—ground beef, tomato and cheddar—with that creaminess you usually associate with a bechamel (think: pastitsio or lasagna Bolognese). But there’s no need to whip up a roux here; cottage cheese is the secret ingredient, which we absolutely promise transforms in the oven to go ooey-gooey and meld with the saucy meat.

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French Onion Chicken Noodle Casserole

Everything that makes French onion soup special—the sweet-savory caramelized onions, the buttery sharpness of Gruyere, the toastiness of the bread—contributes layers of flavor to bring new flair to an old faithful, chicken casserole. The crunchy breadcrumb topping, flecked through with crisp fried onions and thyme, makes it.

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