I normally start with hot sauce, butter, and mustard in mine.
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….butter??? In ramen???
Yes. Not a whole bunch but it makes it like a creamy texture. Idk I been eating it that way since I was a kid. The mustard normally trips people out too, but when they try it they say its good.
Butter corn miso ramen is a thing in Sapporo. Probably invented to promote regional products (Hokkaido is famous for corn and dairy) to tourists.
You only need a little. Fat disperses flavor.
Yeah, but sesame oil is customary.
Yeah! And most ramen base is park, so maybe lard? Except idk what lard taste like straight lol
Stir fry the cooked noodles with whatever.
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.
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!
A soft boiled egg and some kimchi.
Hot sauce and a soft boiled egg
Also a good option is a hard boiled egg that has been marinated in soy sauce.
Chili crisp is a game changer for me. And i chop and freeze cilantro in an ice cube tray, so I have fresh cilantro to throw in at the very end. I’m going to start doing that with spring onions too, because I never use them all before they go bad.
Haha was gonna type this exactly
Yep. Egg + sriracha for me.
Medium boiled egg. Some frozen potstickers, I heated up on the side.
Sauces, Sauces and more sauces. I never user the flavor packet (Or just use a little bit) and add my own sauces. Soy sauce, fish sauce, hoisin, oyster sauce, miso etc. They are just sitting there ready to be used to make it delicious
Jammy soy eggs
Extra dehydrated veggies
Dollop of gochujong or some other hot sauce
Sprinkling if sesame seeds or crunches up nori
Egg, peanut butter, frozen peas, chopped up deli meats, thin sliced cabbage, sriracha or gochujang.
Putting boiling water in it for once instead of eating it dry :3
It’s so hard to swallow the boiling water though, my throat keeps burning.
Look at Mr Fancy-pants here…
never!
Dont forget to snort the spice packet!
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.
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
Now thats a game changer!
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
Make the ramen as normal but once the noods are cooked crack an egg, add some mayo, then stir it all up. It adds great flavor and makes the meal more filling.
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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.
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Frozen veggies so I feel like it’s a real meal.
Fire-roasted corn is a fave, then usually peas and carrots, and the weird one I found: frozen okra. It seemed wrong but I had some on hand and figured why not? Turns out I like it a lot! It also thickens the broth just a bit in a good way.
okra is totally underrated.
My parents briefly hired a private chef. She used (frozen) okra in ways I never expected and it’s what made me always keep a bag on hand.
The best was oven-roasted veggies with beets and asparagus (fresh) plus okra and fire-roasted corn (frozen). Nothing else, not even seasoning, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.
She also used it in salads! I questioned it until I tried it, and then I was sold.
First of all, I never use that flavor packet. It’s a ridiculous amount of sodium.
To keep it quick and easy, I’d use garlic powder and/or chili flakes.
