Chashu pork ramen
This ramen looks effortless in its assembly, but the key to its success is the slow-cooked intensely savoury Japanese-style stock coupled with full-flavoured braised pork and overnight marinated eggs.
Ingredients
- 750g/1lb 10oz ramen noodles (alternatively use udon noodles)
- drizzle sesame oil
- 2.5 litres/4½ pints
- 30g/1oz fresh root ginger, cut into 4 thick slices
- 2 garlic cloves, cut into slithers
- 10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, cut into slithers
- 1 carrot, cut into matchsticks
- 100g/3½oz shimeji mushrooms
- 200g/7oz soya beansprouts (or beansprouts)
- 50g/1¾oz sliced bamboo shoots
- 100g/3½oz enoki mushrooms
- 200g/7oz choi sum, ends trimmed and cut in half
- 500g/1lb 2oz , about 16 slices
- 4 spring onion, cut on the diagonal
- 1 long red chilli, finely sliced on a diagonal
- 4 whole , halved
To serve (optional)
- Japanese shop-bought chilli oil
- shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven-spice seasoning)
- dried tuna flakes
Method
Cook the noodles following the instructions on the packet. Once cooked, drain and drizzle with a little sesame oil to stop the noodles from sticking.
Heat the stock in a large pan with the ginger, garlic, shiitake mushrooms and carrots.
Simmer for 5-8 minutes. Add the shimeji mushrooms.
Carefully arrange the warm noodles, beansprouts, bamboo shoots, enoki mushrooms, choi sum and sliced pork in four large serving bowls.
Carefully pour the stock over the pork and vegetables with a ladle. Top with the spring onions and sliced chilli.
Carefully half the eggs and place on the top of each serving.
Serve at once with a drizzle of chilli oil, a sprinkling of shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven-spice seasoning) and a flourish of dried tuna flakes (if liked).
Recipe Tips
If you don’t have any chashu pork, you could substitute it with leftover roast pork.