Noodle soup

Beef tendon shoyu ramen

Simple, tasty, indulgent. All you really need is a slow cooker to tenderize the tendon. Everything else is a matter of assembly.

Cook time: 6

Servings: 3 people

Hanoi-style beef pho

Pho is a Vietnamese soup with rice noodles, meat and vegetables. This is beef pho recreated from a hot bowl of noodle soup I enjoyed in Hanoi.

Cook time: 3 30

Servings: 4 people

Miso ramen with shrimp wonton and shiitake

Do you like Japanese miso soup? We do! It is great in its simplest form — with just tofu and wakame — but did you know that wonton and shiitake are great additions to basic miso soup?

Cook time: 8

Servings: 1 bowl

Beef udon soup

Udon, thick noodles made from wheat, are served in umami-rich broth made with dashi and soy sauce, then topped with sweet-salty thinly sliced braised beef.

Cook time: 20

Servings: 3 people

Sweet salty meat with a little heat, broth made richer with ground toasted sesame seeds, lightly chewy shiitake bursting with umami, and a touch of tang from pickled ginger. All that in a bowl of instant ramen.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 2 people

Sweet soy sauce beef ramen

Salty sweet broth, greens, beef, noodles, kamaboko and raw egg. Think sukiyaki but simpler because this instant ramen hack has fewer ingredients. Mushrooms (shimeji and enoki, especially) are good additions.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 2 people

Chicken wonton noodle soup

Wonton wrappers are stuffed with seasoned minced chicken and vegetables, boiled and served with noodles and bone broth in this easy recipe for a one-bowl meal.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 4 people

Quick and easy miso ramen

Making traditional miso ramen is multi-step process that involves ingredients that aren't always available outside Asia. In this quick and easy recipe, spinach, pork and seaweeds were added to a pack of instant ramen to make a delicious one bowl meal.

Cook time: 5

Servings: 1 person