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Meat Noodles Asian noodles Lunch / Dinner One Bowl Meals Ramen

Ginger pork ramen

Published: 07.13.2021 » Last updated: 07.01.2023

Two packs of instant ramen were combined with ginger pork, shiitake, bok choy, pickled ginger and sesame paste to make a full meal for two!

Ginger pork ramen in bowl

From March to around August of 2020, given the uncertainties of the time, we painstakingly stocked the pantry with convenience food. One of items that we kept buying was instant ramen.

By the second of half 2021, we were still using up our stock of instant ramen. My daughter, Alex, came up with this idea of adding browned ground pork seasoned with dashi, mirin, ginger and a bit of sugar. It’s similar to shigureni except that the saltiness is derived from dashi rather than soy sauce.

The seasoning from the packet of instant ramen was stirred into the water in which dried shiitake mushrooms were soaked to make the broth. Blanched greens and pickled ginger (gari) complete the noodle soup dish.

Ginger pork ramen

Connie Veneracion
Sweet salty meat with a little heat, broth made richer with ground toasted sesame seeds, lightly chewy shiitake bursting with umami, and a touch of tang from pickled ginger. All that in a bowl of instant ramen.
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian Fusion
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

Sweet salty ground pork

  • 200 grams ground pork with at least 20% fat for better flavor
  • 1 teaspoon dashi granules
  • ¼ teaspoon grated ginger
  • 1 tablespoon mirin
  • 2 pinches sugar
  • salt optional

Noodle soup

  • 3 to 4 dried shiitake soaked in hot water for 20 minutes
  • bok choy or other Asian cabbage, as much or as little as you like
  • 2 packs instant ramen pork, chicken or vegetable flavor
  • 1 tablespoon ground toasted sesame seeds (you may ½ tablespoon substitute store-bought Asian sesame seed paste)
  • salt optional
  • pickled ginger (gari) to garnish

Instructions
 

Cook the pork

  • Spread the ground pork in a heated non-stick frying pan.
  • Sprinkle in the dashi granules and ginger.
  • Cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned.
  • Add the mirin and sugar.
  • Continue cooking until the liquid has been soaked up and the sugar has caramelized.
  • Taste the pork and, if needed, add salt.

Cook the noodle soup

  • Cut off the shiitake stalks and discard; slice the caps thinly.
  • Cut off the root ends of the bok choy, rinse the leaves and set aside.
  • In a pan, boil four cups of water.
  • Drop in the noodles and cook for two minutes.
  • Drop in the bok choy and sliced shiitake caps, and cook everything together for two to two and a half minutes.
  • Drain the noodles, bok choy and shiitake, and arrange in bowls.
  • Rinse the pan, pour in the shiitake soaking liquid and enough water to make two cups, and bring to the boil.
  • Stir in the seasoning (and dried vegetables, if any) from the instant ramen packet, and the ground sesame seeds.
  • Taste the broth and add salt, if needed.

Finish assembling the noodle soup

  • Divide the ground pork between the two bowls.
  • Pour hot broth over the noodles, bok choy, pork and shiitake.
  • Add pickled ginger and serve at once.

Connie Veneracion

Lawyer by education. Journalist by accident. Writer by passion. Photographer by necessity. Good food, coffee and wine lover forever. Read more about me and Umami Days. Find me on Flipboard, Substack and Pinterest.

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