Make Shoyu Ramen Yourself – That’s How it Works

Ramen is delicious, no doubt about that. Unfortunately, not everyone has a restaurant or market nearby where you can buy noodle soups. Here we show you how you can easily make your own Shoyu Ramen.

The ingredients for your own Shoyu Ramen

For your ramen, you need a few ingredients, most of which you can find in the supermarket. Others are only available in the Asia market. Our recipe is designed for four people.

• 2 eggs
• 400g pork fillet
• 100g fresh mung bean sprouts
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Fresh ginger root 4cm
• 2 tbsp sesame oil
• 80 ml beef stock: Simply dissolve 2 level teaspoons of beef stock granules in 800 ml of water.
• 1 liter of water
• 1 sachet of dashi powder 5g
• 2 tablespoons sake
• 8 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 4 nests of mie noodles
• 4 spring onions
• salt and pepper
• Narutomaki for garnish, optional

The steps of preparation

• First, you need to boil the eggs for 6-8 mins depending on how hard you want your yolks to be. Then peel and halve.
• Now cut the pork fillet into 16 equally thick slices and season the pieces with salt and pepper.
• Wash the mung bean sprouts in a sieve and then let the sprouts drain (dab a little if necessary).
• Sear the meat in a preheated pan with vegetable oil on medium-high, on both sides, until cooked through.
• Then set the meat aside and fry the mung bean sprouts until translucent. You can then put them aside for now.
• Now peel the garlic and ginger and cut them into small pieces. Then steam it in sesame oil until it begins to smell.
• Now add the water, broth, dashi powder, sake, and soy sauce to the ginger and garlic in the saucepan and bring everything to a boil.
• Then add the noodles to the broth and cook until done. The times for this should be written on the packaging.
• In the meantime, you can cut the spring onions into rings.
• When everything is ready, arrange the four bowls with half an egg and four slices of meat, which you put in the broth.

The different toppings/broths

• Use the mung bean sprouts and spring onions as toppings.
• You can also add Narutomaki if they are commercially available.
• Other options would also be seafood or other meats like beef or chicken.
• Bamboo shoots or seaweed also go well with it, but in the end, it comes down to what you like best.
• The same applies to the broths. If beef is not your thing, you can also use pork or chicken broth. Another option would be a fish broth as well.