Ramen Preparation - Page 28

Ingridients:
450g Pork Belly
4cm of a Ginger root (fresh)
2 spring onions
150ml Soy sauce
2 Tablespoon Mirin
75ml Sake
8 Peppercorns
2 Colves of Garlic
1 Tablespoon maple syrup
1 Tablespoon hony
Water
some oil

preparation:
shell the ginger and the garlic. cut the ingwer into thin slices and cut the spring onions into 3 equally sized parts each. heat up a cooking pot and give some oil into it. fry the meat from all sides untill lightly browned. remove the meat from the pot. if there is alot of excess fat/oil u might want to remove it too from the stillet before preceeding. now, using the cooking pot from before add the soy sauce, mirin, sake, pepper, honey, marple syrup and heat them up till it starts to boil. then add the Ginger, garlic, spring onions and the meat again. now fill the cooking pot with watter untill most of the meat is covered by it. put a lit on the pot and keep the heat as low as possible, stewing the meat for 1 - 1,5 hours.
when its finished put it out of the stock - reserve the latter for further use!

i know this sounds like a days work, but it is like 15 min to prepare stuff - then u r free to do other things for about an hour.

Ingridients for about 175g ( i find this is enough for 2 bowls of ramen):
150g sliced, fresh Bamboo shots ( it also works with an equal amount of "fresh" sliced, canned bamboo shots. however make sure u do not buy bamboo that is conserved with vinegar!)
150ml of the stock u have reserved from preparing the meat
150ml water
2 Tablespoon Chilioil

preparation:
put the bamboo slices ( not larger than 3*5 cm ) and the rest of the ingridients into a cooking pot and boil, without having the lit on, on medium heat. when most most of the fluid is gone the bamboo will take on a slightly brown color. be carefull not to let it burn as the coocking process takes about 30-40 minutes. and u do not want to repeat it.

again, this takes about an hour to cook but the preps take only 5 minutes.

ill list a basic set of inggridients that i always use, the ones listed seperately are tasty adds too but u might not always be able to buy them.
Ingridients:
about 100g Ramen Noodles
800ml of Stock ( u may use some leftovers fromt he meat but ordinary chicken bouillon will do equally good)
meat (have the meat u prepared thinly sliced)
~80g bamboo (u may use the one u have prepared)
1 egg (coocked for 5 min)
1or 2 spring onion
3 Tablespoon Sojasauce
2 Tablespoon Mirin
1 Tablespoon Sake
½-1 Tablespoon sugar
½ Tablespoon Salt
Pepper

further ingridients:
leaf spinach or water spinach
mushrooms
toasted nori
soybean sprouts
narutomaki ( its a very common ingridient but the product migth not appeal tasty to u)

preparation:
biol the egg and shell it. set up a small pott of water and bring to biol. place the vegetables for 1 min in the boiling water each if they are still raw. afterwards cut them in pieces. alternatively u can fry them for a short time.
cut the spring onion into fine slices and cut the egg in half. the interior of the egg should still be al little bit liquid.
cook the ramen, free them of excess water and put them into ur bowl. add the egg, meat, bamboo, and the spring onion slices. also add any further ingredients u might like to add.
simultaneously u should prepare the stew for the ramen. to do so, set up the stock in a pot and bring it to boil. then add soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar, salt and pepper. boil for another 30 sek and reduce the heat to zero. add the strew into the bowl.
note that u want to have things be ready at the same time so ur meal is all hot when u are finished

well, now we are done. by now u will have spent about 1 hour in the kitchen and have waited another 2 hours. as i stated in the beginning this is not a recipe for u if u want ur food done in like 10 minutes. but the taste is great and, if u are fine with eating ramen two days in a row, i am sure u will have enough ingridients for 2 days.