Recipe courtesy of Hardy's colleague, Alainna
soup
5 Servings
- 3 C water
- 1 piece of kombu
- 1 T cooking wine/mirin
Add all ingredients, bring to boil, simmer for 20 minutes. Or, use an Instant Pot, set for 7 minutes, and use that time to chop everything else.
Sauté 1 chopped onion in 1 T olive oil, add a drop of sesame oil if you want. When onion is turning brown at the edges, add 1T of garlic and 1T of ginger. Sauté about 30 seconds more, add broth, simmer.
Boil noodles (steal some from a boring package of noodles, or find some specialty freeze-dried noodles if you want a treat; Amazon has them, probably a local asian food market does, too), combine with Ramen base, garnish with fun Ramen garnishes (shredded carrot, sautéd shitake mushrooms, sliced boiled egg, cubed baked tofu, frozen peas.
GF ramen packets exist, if you have one, swipe the noodles from there. You can also use glass noodles, or Soba (buckwheat isn't actually wheat, just be sure they haven't snuck in any wheat: read the package). Shirataki noodles (check the refrigerator section of an Asian market). Rice noodles work great and every store has them. Or, spiralize a vegetable!