Easy Pork Ramen Recipe

Spicy pork ramen

Name: Spicy pork ramen
Total time: 4 h
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 500g piece pork belly skin and excess fat removed; 100ml soy sauce plus a splash; 100ml mirin; 1 pack ramen noodles (around 270g); 4 handfuls young spinach; 4 hard boiled eggs to serve; a handful beansprouts; ½ bunch spring onions finely sliced; ½ bunch spring onions chopped; 6 slices ginger; 1 red chilli halved; 1 clove garlic halved; 1.5 litres chicken stock; a splash sesame oil

Published: April 22, 2015 at 4:48 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 4 hrs

+ overnight chilling

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Ramen may seem like one of those dishes you can't recreate at home, but this recipe for cheat’s spicy pork ramen changes that. Rather than spending hours making stock, we buy a good flavoured one and spike it with Asian aromatics

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Ingredients

Nutrition

500g piece pork belly

skin and excess fat removed
100ml soy sauce

plus a splash
100ml mirin
1 pack ramen noodles (around 270g)
4 handfuls young spinach
4 hard boiled eggs

to serve
a handful beansprouts
½ bunch spring onions

finely sliced

SPICY BROTH

½ bunch spring onions

chopped
6 slices ginger
1 red chilli

halved
1 clove garlic

halved
1.5 litres chicken stock
a splash sesame oil

Nutrition: per serving

kcal712
fat26.8g
saturates9.8g
carbs69.9g
fibre5.6g
protein45.1g
salt7.4g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. To make the pork belly, put the pork in a small baking dish it will fit snugly. Mix the soy, mirin and 200ml water, and pour this over the pork belly.Add a little more water, if needed, to just cover the meat. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 3 hours. Pour away the cooking liquid. Cool the pork for 30 minutes, then wrap it in clingfilm and weight down with a heavy chopping board. Chill overnight, or for at least 6 hours to set the shape.
step 2

To make the broth, put the spring onions, ginger, chilli and garlic on a chopping board and bruise them all with a rolling pin. Put it into a pan, add the chicken stock and simmer gently for 15 minutes. Strain out all the solids and discard them.
step 3

Slice the pork into neat slices and reheat it in the broth, adding a splash of soy and sesame oil for flavour.
step 4

Cook the ramen following the packet instructions, and drain and divide the noodles between 4 warmed bowls.Add a handful of spinach to each bowl, then pour over the simmering broth. Top with a few slices of pork, egg halves, beansprouts and spring onion.

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