🇯🇵 How to Make Ramen

Craving Ramen? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Ramen at home, in about 20 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 pack fresh or instant ramen noodles (bin the flavour sachet)
• 2 cups (500ml) good chicken stock
• 1 tbsp soy sauce + 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp miso paste
• 1 clove garlic + a thumb of ginger, grated
• 1 egg
• toppings: spring onion, corn, nori, a knob of butter, leftover pork if you have it

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Jammy egg first: lower the egg into boiling water for exactly 6½ minutes, then straight into iced water. Peel when cool.
2. Simmer the stock with the garlic and ginger for 5 min so it actually tastes of something.
3. Kill the heat, then whisk in miso, soy and sesame oil. Never boil miso — it goes flat and loses its aroma.
4. Cook the noodles in separate boiling water 30–60 sec less than the pack says, then drain well. Cooking them in the broth turns it starchy and dull.
5. Noodles into the bowl, hot broth over. Work fast — ramen is a race against soggy.
6. Halve the egg on top, pile on the toppings, add the butter for a tonkotsu-ish richness. Slurping is correct technique.