Chicken Ramen

(from cafelatte’s recipe box)

The recipe uses the broth you cooked the chicken/mushrooms in to cook the noodles too, but depending on the noodles, they’ll absorb a lot of it during cooking.

So, if you want your noodles etc submerged in broth in your bowl, either make more than a litre of stock (maybe use a little more leek/carrot/ginger). Alternatively, just boil the noodles separately in water, it’s not as if the broth flavour won’t dominate anyway :)

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves 2 people

Categories: asian

Ingredients

  • At least 1 litre chicken stock (Better to make more than less, see comments)
  • 2 tbsp oil (orig. recipe said peanut oil, but there are no high temps involved - I use olive oil)
  • 1 large leek, chopped
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 2cm ginger, peeled and chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 160g noodles (or however hungry you are, I usually make one of those 'blocks' each)
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 6 oyster mushrooms (optional)
  • 2 hard boiled eggs
  • 1 scallion, sliced
  • salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Make hard boiled eggs if you haven’t already (I usually forget this bit)

  2. Heat saucepan to medium heat

  3. Add oil and sweat leeks slightly

  4. Add carrots, garlic and ginger, cook for 2-3 mins

  5. Stir in chicken stock, soy sauce, and pepper (original recipe said salt too, but I find it’s salty enough depending on what stock you use, so taste and adjust during the next step)

  6. Simmer for 15-20 mins

  7. Strain broth and put it back on the heat

  8. Add chicken breasts and mushrooms and poach for 12-15 mins (Don’t boil, it’ll dry out the meat. For larger sizes, I find it’s around 14/15 mins, but it’s trial and error the first few times you make this)

  9. Remove chicken and mushrooms (check that the chicken is cooked through before the next step)

  10. Add noodles and cook for 3 minutes (or whatever the noodle instructions say)

  11. In the meantime, slice eggs and chicken

  12. Remove noodles into bowls, fill to top of noodles with broth

  13. Add chicken, egg, (mushrooms), scallions

  14. Add more broth to suit

  15. Insert into face

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