I normally start with hot sauce, butter, and mustard in mine.
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Chop up a spring onion and chuck that in with some toasted sesame seeds.
For a bit more effort I’ll chuck in some frozen stir fry veg when I’m cooking it. Sometimes I do an egg too
The “ramulet” 2 egg omelette with ramen noodles
Add instant potatoes until it gets to the desired thickness and add ground beef and cheese.
In college we called it “poverty slop”This sounds bomb as fuck to me.
If I’m trying to make it a real meal whatever veg / seafood / meat I might have around. But my lazy addition is a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (and usually some extra spice) makes it feel more nutritious creamier and kinda like satay.
See, people think that me using butter is weird, but peanut butter sounds atrocious to me and multiple people have suggested it.
Peanut butter + sriracha + a bit of lime juice for “pad thai” works well.
Add some cilantro garlic soy and chili oil and that’s a top tier 5 minute meal, I usually whip the sauce up while microwaving the noodles in a bowl, stir fry for 2 mins and done
You should try it! Personally, I don’t find butter weird (I think it’s just people don’t think of it as an ‘Asian’ ingredient) but I was shocked by the mayo. But a couple of folks mentioned it, so I’m going to try!
And thanks for this post BTW, I’m a bachelor again for a week while my partner is away, so I’ll defintely be cracking out the ramen. And now I can pretend I’m experimenting, rather than just being lazy!
Peanut butter is a common ingredient in some Thai recipes. It just sounds weird to people who have only used peanut butter for PB&J sandwiches.
Spam and fried egg is a classic. Maybe some kimchi or whatever leafy vegetables I have around
I’ve never heard of using spam until today but a few people suggested it. I have cheap “spam” in the house so maybe I will try it.
I think the Spam thing is part of Korean food culture with their “army stew”, made from ramen, spam, baked beans, kimchi, cheese and such.
Soft boiled egg, always. I usually have some kimchi, so that, too. Got a bag of nori sheets for sushi, so I cut up some of that as well. Made my own chili oil, and a friend got me some momofuku chili crisp, and I alternate between those two. Always growing some green onion out back, so some of that, too… Sliced ham? Hell yeah. I also keep a jar of pickled carrots shreds, so why not. Thin slivers of red onion, too. Toasted sesame seeds sometimes, just a little, for texture.
Ramen takes a long time to make at my place, but I got just about whatever you could want.
Egg, julienned courgette
For fellow Americans just waking up, observe how much better this sounds than ‘zoodles’
(and don’t @ me about chiffonades and spiralizing and julienning. actually do, spiralizers kick ass)
Putting boiling water in it for once instead of eating it dry :3
never!
Now thats a game changer!
Dont forget to snort the spice packet!
we called plain dry ramen “food brick”
lol man that brings me back! it was ok for some flavors. put the flavor packet into the package, give it a shake and crunch crunch
being 20 something in the 1990s was fun
Do you have a recipe? Not all of us are gourmet shefs here
Step 1: Put water in the kettle
Step 2: Click the little button
Step 3: Open your noodles, and put them in the bowl, along with the spices, vegetables and oil
Step 4: Once the kettle turns off pour the water onto the noodles till it covers about half
Step 5: Put a plate over the bowl and wait about 4 minutes
I didn’t do step one, so at step 4 fire came out instead of water. Why do my noodles taste weird?
Step 1. Boil water
What am I, a chemist?
Clarification: This jar says “Jam.” Is water?
It’s says “water” on the ingredients. The label wouldntylie to us.
Look at Mr Fancy-pants here…
It’s so hard to swallow the boiling water though, my throat keeps burning.
You probably don’t have raw sewage coming out of your pipes ala Michigan. Fancy!
Had sand come out once :3… that’s on me for not checking the filters in ages tho
Start with miso or vegetable broth, with dark soy sauce, pepper/paprika, MSG, and maybe a little garlic if you’re feeling it. (Light soy sauce too if you don’t use the flavor packet, I use the soy sauce flavor top ramen packet though)
Add silken tofu, bok choy, and mushrooms (I like enoki and shiitake)
Wait a bit, add noodles, let it cook.
Drizzle some toasted sesame oil on top
Eat with chopsticks and slurp the broth!
Any combination of ginger, garlic, onion, pepper, and whatever leftover meat and/or veggies I’ve got.
Or, if I have leftover soup, I do one cup water, one cup soup and one half of the seasoning pouch. It’s especially great with cabbage and sausage soup, but split pea is pretty good too.
Egg and chilli crisp both work equally well to elevate ramen. I still use their powder pack, but I’m sure there are good recipes without so much salt.
Stir fry the cooked noodles with whatever.
A soft boiled egg and some kimchi.
Mint Jams by Casiopea is really good.
