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.
Servings 1 person
Ingredients
- 1 pack instant ramen
- 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
- 2 to 3 slices thinly sliced pork (you can always add more for a meatier noodle soup) cut into thin strips
- 1 small handful spinach leaves
- 1 teaspoon miso paste preferably white
- ogonori or your preferred seaweed, rehydrated in hot water (optional but recommended)
Instructions
- Boil a cup and a half of water in a small sauce pan.
- Drop in the noodles and cook for about four minutes.
- While the noodles cook, in a small frying pan, heat the sesame seed oil.
- Cook the pork in the hot oil, stirring to separate the thin slices.
- Tear off the packet of seasoning that came with the noodles, and sprinkle half of the contents on the pork.
- Dump the pork and spinach leaves into the sauce pan with the noodles, and allow everything to simmer until the spinach leaves are wilted.
- Take a quarter cup of the liquid from the sauce pan, pour into a small bowl and stir in the miso paste until dissolved.
- Pour the diluted miso paste into the sauce pan and stir.
- Taste the broth. If bland, sprinkle in some (or all) of the remaining instant ramen seasoning.
- Stir in the rehydrated seaweed and serve.