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Ramen
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Ramen

This ramen recipe offers a deeply flavored pork broth made from pig trotters simmered with onion, shallot, green onion, and ginger for 12 hours to develop a rich base. The chashu pork belly is rolled, tied, and gently cooked with soy sauce, mirin, rice wine, scallions, garlic, and ginger to add a savory, tender topping. Accompanied by marinated soft-boiled eggs, noodles, scallions, and nori sheets, each component builds a layered bowl of ramen with savory, sweet, and umami notes.

Prep Time
40 mins
Cook Time
12 hrs
Total Time
12 hrs 40 mins
Servings: 4 servings
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Japanese

Ingredients

Pork broth:
  • 1 kg pig trotters with skin on
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 green onion long
  • 1 onion large
  • ginger 5 cm (2 inches, knob
Chashu:
  • 500 g pork belly skin on or off is okay
  • 120 ml soy sauce
  • 180 ml mirin
  • 80 ml water
  • 200 ml rice wine
  • 3 scallions
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • ginger 5 cm (2 inches, knob
Tare:
  • 180 ml dashi
  • 150 ml soy sauce
  • 70 ml mirin
Marinated Egg:
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp mirin
  • 3 tbsp water
Other Ingredients:
  • ramen noodles
  • scallions
  • nori seaweed

Instructions

How to make ramen
Marinated Egg:
    Cup of Yum
  1. Boil the egg for 7 minutes. Rinse under cold water to stop the cooking process and peel.
  2. In a ziplock bag, add the egg, soy sauce, mirin and water. 
  3. Try to remove as much air as possible and close tightly. Make sure the whole egg is submerged in the liquid. Marinate overnight or for 3-4 days.
Pork broth:
  1. In a large saucepan, place the pig trotters and enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and using a sieve, skim the foam off the top for 10 minutes.
  2. Strain and rinse the trotters with cold water. 
  3. Place the trotters in a large saucepan and fill with cold water. Add the remaining pork broth ingredients. 
  4. Bring to a boil and lower the heat so it slowly boils for 12 hours. Stir every often to prevent anything from burning.
Chashu:
  1. Cut the scallions into 5 cm/ 2 inches pieces and peel the ginger.
  2. Place all the chashu ingredients in a large saucepan.
  3. Roll the pork belly into a log shape and tie together with the butcher’s string. 
  4. Place into the pot and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cover with a lid so there is a slight gap to let the steam out.
  5. Place in a 140 ºC/ 285° F oven for 4-5 hours.
Tare:
  1. Put all the tare ingredients into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
  2. If you have any of the braising liquid from the chashu, add a couple of tablespoons for extra umami.
  3. Season with salt to taste.
Plating:
  1. Slice the scallions as thinly as possible. Slice the chashu to 3 mm (0.11 inches) thickness.
  2. Boil the ramen noodles according to the package. 
  3. In a bowl, add 3 tbsp of tare and then the pork broth till half full.
  4. Add the ramen noodles and top with chashu, marinated egg, scallions and nori.