How to cook Japanese chicken ramen: step-by-step recipe

In the "Soup of the Day" section, FoodOboz editorial team tells you how to cook first courses. Today we are sharing with you a recipe for ramen, a warming soup originally from Japan.

The most interesting thing is that the Japanese do not consider this dish a soup, but a noodle, as ramen is primarily a type of wheat noodle. According to the rules, noodles are served with broth and various additives: meat, mushrooms, vegetables, herbs, sauces, nori seaweed, and pickled eggs.

There are several types of broth for ramen:

• shio - light, almost transparent broth with salt;
• shoyu - light brown or dark (depending on the ingredients) broth;
• miso - broth with miso paste.

The taste of ramen depends not only on the broth but also on the right combination of all the ingredients, as well as on the right serving. The noodles, which are cooked separately, are placed in a deep bowl and then poured with broth. Then all the other ingredients are added.

For 4 servings:

• chicken (fillet) - 300 g
• chicken (legs) - 2-3 pcs.
• noodles - 375 g
• eggs - 4 pcs.
• spinach - 100 g
• carrot - 1 pc.
• onions - 1 pc.
• green onions - 4 feathers
• garlic - 3 cloves
• nori seaweed - 1 sheet
• soy sauce - 4 tbsp
• sesame oil - 2 tsp.
• sugar - 1 tsp
• ginger - a piece of 4 cm
• dried chili pepper - a pinch
• canned corn - 4 tbsp
• soybean sprouts - for serving

How to cook:

1. Prepare the broth. Put the chicken legs in a saucepan, add coarsely chopped carrots and onions, cover with water (about 1.5 liters), and cook for about an hour.
2. Strain the broth. Add soy sauce, finely chopped ginger, garlic, and chili to the broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and cook for another 5 minutes. Add either sugar or more soy sauce if necessary.
3. Cook the noodles according to the instructions on the package. Cut the chicken into pieces and fry in a frying pan with sesame oil.
4. Boil eggs in a bag. To do this, put them in a saucepan with cold water, put them on the fire, bring them to a boil, and cook for another 4 minutes.
5. Put the noodles on four plates and pour the broth over them. Put pieces of fried chicken fillet, and two egg halves on each plate, and sprinkle with chopped green onions and finely chopped nori. Add soy sprouts and a tablespoon of sweet corn to each plate.

By the way, additives in ramen can be different: in Japan, pork tasiu (cooked in a special sauce), pickles, fermented bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, green onions, spinach, Chinese cabbage, nori, and pickled eggs are popular.