Recipe of Great Not-So-Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup Cooking Basics for Beginners
by Dennis Green
Not-So-Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup
I still crave ramen noodle soup but don't want all those nasty additives or sodium, therefore I created my own vegan version! This is not going to be as overly salty as the traditional ramen noodle flavor packets at the store. It is well flavored and fresher and has a nice bite to it, but not. The difference lies in that westerners think ramen is soup, like chicken noodle soup, when in actuality it refers to the noodle itself, like spaghetti (although.most Americans think spaghetti is thin pasta in tomato sauce, the rest of the world.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook not-so-traditional ramen noodle soup using 44 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
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The ingredients needed to make Not-So-Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup:
Take The Broth
Make ready 5 litres cold water
Get 1 tsp fish sauce
Make ready 1 tbsp soy sauce
Get Half a bunch of spring onions (around 4), roughly chopped
Prepare 1 portobello mushroom, sliced thickly
Prepare 8 garlic cloves, peeled
Take 1 onion, quartered
Make ready 1 tsp Chinese Five Spice
Get 2 Birdseye chillies, chopped
Get 1 tbsp miso paste
Make ready 1 chicken carcass
Prepare 1 tsp ginger
Make ready 1 tsp tomato paste
Make ready Salt
Make ready Pepper
Make ready Sesame oil
Make ready 1 pinch sugar
Get The Tea Eggs
Make ready 3 tbsp oolong tea leaves (ordinary black tea will also work)
Get 1 cinnamon stick
Get 1 star anise
Get 2 cloves
Take 1 tsp fennel seeds
Take 1/2 tsp peppercorns
Get 3 eggs, hard boiled
Prepare The Pickled Beetroot
Take 1/2 cup vinegar
Make ready 1/4 cup sugar
Get 1/4 cup water
Make ready 1 tsp peppercorns
Prepare 2 bay leaves
Make ready A few beetroots, boiled
Get Noodles
Take 3 nests of vermicelli noodles (more or less to desired quantity)
Take Enough water to fully submerge the nests
Prepare Salt
Make ready Toppings
Make ready Nori sheets (optional)
Get Sweetcorn
Prepare Greens of some kind (green beans, spring onion, peas)
Prepare 2 sliced portobello mushrooms
Prepare Sesame seeds (optional)
Prepare Chicken meat of any kind (cooked)
Ramen noodles simmered with vegetable broth, soy sauce, chili oil, ginger and sesame oil. My boyfriend loves this soup, and it's so easy to make! I usually double this recipe and add some I've been augmenting Ramen Noodle Soup for years. Try poaching eggs on top–just til the whites are set.
Instructions to make Not-So-Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup:
First you need to make your broth. Now this can take a while, so wake up early the day you want to make your soup. You need to lightly fry the spring onions, chillies, onions, garlic, and tomato paste.
Once browned, add in your spices and coat everything with them. Add your carcass and then five litres of water on top, with the rest of your ingredients for the broth. This needs to be brought to a boil and then simmered for a minimum of five hours. Mine went for 8 and had a deeper, more intense flavour.
The Tea Eggs can be prepared whilst the broth is cooking. Hard boil the eggs and then simply add your spices and tea to a pot, then submerge with boiling water. Crack the shells of your eggs but do not peel them! The cracks give a shattered glass effect in the end. Place them in the boiling spice and tea mix and leave there for 30 minutes.
Place the eggs into a glass bowl and strain the tea mixture on top. Leave this to intensify in colour and flavour, in the fridge. Ensure to put cling film on top so no nasty fridge smells enter your delicious tea mix.
Place the vinegar, sugar, water, bay leaves, and peppercorns into a pan and bring to a boil. Once it is scalding hot (that means bubbles have appeared around the edges and it is beginning to bubble in the centre) pour the mixture over your peeled and cooked beetroot and let it come to room temperature. Leave this to pickle all day, until ready to serve. Note: this makes more than I used in the dish and so feel free to not use all of it. It lasts ages in the fridge, too.
So the only elements left are the noodles and toppings. It has been at least five hours since you put on the broth, or longer, so you are going to start your noodles. Cook them according to packet instructions.
Place your chicken in the broth to heat it through, you don't want to overcook it though, as it is already cooked.
Whilst everything is slowly cooking, prepare your toppings. Cook the green beans (you can use spring onions however, which are best raw) and lightly fry your Portobello mushrooms in sesame oil. Once these are cooked, get ready to serve.
Start with the noodles, a generous portion goes into the bowl. Then the chicken (you can shred this if you like) in a neat pile to one side. Pour over the delicious hot broth (strained) and then finally top with anything else. Your eggs halved and to one side, showing the lovely yolks, the beans, sweetcorn, mushrooms and beetroot all in their own space.
Garnish with the nori at one side, sticking out high and sprinkle lightly the sesame seeds over the eggs.
Enjoy your delicious meal, which you have spent all day preparing. It's a small price to pay for this truly delicious, Not-So-Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup!
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