Category: Soup

Basic Ramen Noodle Stock

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Course Appetizer, Main Course, Soup
Cuisine Asian

Ingredients
  

  • 2 lb pork knuckles and rib bones, or pork butt
  • 2 lb chicken thighs
  • 1 ea onion, quartered
  • 1 ea leek, green part, chopped; or scallions
  • 1 oz ginger, about the size of a ping pong ball, sliced
  • ½ head garlic
  • 4 inch square of kombu
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Have a butcher crack the pork knuckles.
  • Hack the chicken thighs into 3-4 pieces.
  • Boil both for one minute in water. Drain & rinse. Clean the pot.
  • Return meat into the clean pot.
  • Add onion, leek, garlic, ginger and kombu.
  • Add water to cover by 1 inch, bring to a boil and simmer gently for 7 hours, adding water as needed to keep bones covered.
  • Strain stock through cheesecloth. Season with salt, let cool.

Notes

Soy Sauce flavored Ramen
Soy sauce, sweet simmered bamboo shoots, simmered pork slices, scallions, chukasoba noodles, roasted garlic paste, simmered pork broth.
Miso flavored Ramen
1 tbsp soybean miso
1 cup sweet white miso
2 tsp chili-bean sauce
Pinch of sansho pepper
2 cloves crushed garlic, sauteed in hot lard or vegetable oil for 5 minutes-set aside
Simmered pork slices
Simmered bamboo shoots
Nori sheets shredded into 2" lengths
Chukasoba noodles
Roasted garlic paste
Cilantro leaves

 

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup

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Course Soup
Cuisine Asian

Ingredients
  

  • Oil
  • Chicken Legs & Thighs
  • Onions
  • Ginger grated
  • Garlic grated
  • Turmeric, fresh grated
  • red chilies chopped
  • Ground cumin
  • Ground coriander
  • Garam masala
  • Chicken stock
  • Egg noodles, cooked then add a little sesame oil
  • Broccoli cut small
  • Kale chopped
  • Salt & White pepper
  • Bean sprouts
  • Cashews chopped

Instructions
 

  • Brown chicken in oil, remove.
  • Add onions and cook down.
  • Add ginger, garlic and turmeric.
  • Add red chilies.
  • Add spics, cook for a minute.
  • Add chicken stock, then add chicken parts back into the pot and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove chicken.
  • Add vegetables. While vegetables cook, shred or chop the chicken. When vegetables are cooked, add chicken back in. Adjust seasoning.
  • Put cooked noodles (tossed in sesame oil) in a bowl, ladle in soup.
  • Top with bean sprouts & chopped cashews.