ThomasFremont
New Fish
Kimchi is going on top of the ramen I’m making tonight. The more the better.
I can't go get ramen at Northgate anymore out of CV fear. Sad.
Just make your own. It’s cheap and easy. Hardest part is snagging some legit noodles, but there’s plenty of Asian markets around to hook that up.
Then just heat up some chicken thighs in a pan with a little olive oil, and deglaze the pan with wine when they’re done. Add in some chicken stock, call it 2 cups or half a box they sell in the store, and maybe a little soy and rice vinegar. I’ve got a red wine version where I toss in a pad of butter to get a richer sauce, and a white wine version that is a bit lighter and brighter. Either way you get all the wine flavor mixing with the fond from the chicken. Welcome to flavor town.
Meanwhile, while that chicken is going, boil water for the noodles (how ever much you need for the crowd you’re feeding). I double the recommended water to have extra broth and to dilute the broth a little, I’m gonna add a fuck ton of flavor later...
I microplane a bunch of fresh ginger (hardest part of the whole process) into the water and boil it with the noodles, and crush up a few cloves of garlic and toss those in there too towards the end once the noodles are in the boiling water.
Once the noodles are cooked, kill the heat, and dump in the pan sauce you’ve made from the chicken drippings. Hit it with a few drops of sesame oil too. Get some giant bowls and serve it up. Serve the noodles first and add broth on top to save yourself a fucking mess.
Slice up the chicken into small bite sized chunks and distribute accordingly. If you have a hard boiled egg, halve it and toss it in. I serve it with a healthy portion of sliced green onions and sesame seeds. Kimchi goes on top at the very end to keep it from cooking too much in the broth while you build.
Super filling and soothing on a cold day, and aside from all that sodium, relatively healthy. Skip the soy and ditch the flavor packet in the noodles if you’re really worried about it.
