EASY JAPANESE RAMEN NOODLES

Easy Japanese Ramen Noodles

The recipe uses store bought soup and noodles, but the toppings are homemade. With a little bit of effort to make good toppings, you can enjoy great ramen almost like the ones you order at restaurants.

Serves1

Ingredients:

Salted pork
  • 1 lb pork
  • 1 tsp salt
Soup
  • 50g ginger root, sliced
  • 6 cups water (1.5L)
  • 3 cloves garlic, skinned
  • 1 bunch green onions
  • 4 Tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 Tbsp sake
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 tsp salt
Noodles
  • 8 cups water (2L)
  • 2 Tbsp baking soda
  • Japanese Ramen
Topping
  • boiled egg halves
  • bean sprouts, blanched briefly
  • green onions, cut finely

Instructions

  1. Rub salt on pork and let it sit overnight in the fridge.
  2. In a pot, put water, ginger root, garlic, green onions and salted pork, and boil at high heat. Skim fat and other floating scums. Then cover, reduce to low heat, and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Let the broth and pork cool completely in pot. Strain and save pork. Slice pork and set aside for a topping.
  3. Prepare the rest of the toppings now as well (boiled eggs, blanched bean sprouts, cut green onions), before making the soup and noodles. Once the noodles are cooked, you will need to add the soup and toppings right away or the noodles will get soft, so you won’t have time to prepare the toppings at the end.
  4. Boil the broth and add soy sauce, sake, salt and sesame oil. Let it simmer at very low heat until noodles are ready.
  5. In boiling water in a pot, add baking soda (be careful, it may boil over), then add the Japanese noodles. Cook the noodles for 30 seconds, and strain. Immediately divide noodles into bowls and add soup onto noodles. Top with boiled eggs, bean sprouts, green onions and sliced pork.

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