STOCK
-For the stock, you can make a simple vegetable stock with onions, carrots, leeks, kombu, shiitake, garlic and ginger. If you want to make a quick meal at home, use vegetable broth and simmer with dashi, garlic and ginger.
—2 medium onions, halved
—4 medium carrots, chopped
—1 garlic bulb, halved
—120g ginger
—150g dried shiitake mushrooms
—1 strip kombu seaweed
Simmer 1.5-2 hours.
SHOYU-MISO TARE
-Most of the flavor from the ramen comes from the tare. Soy sauce, ginger, garlic, miso and sugar. Tare needs to be aged at least 1 week for more depth.
—1/4 cup soy sauce
—2 Tbsp mirin
—2 Tbsp sake
—4 Tbsp miso
—6 Tbsp sesame paste
NOODLES
-We recommend buying fresh noodles from your local Asian grocery store and cook them as instructed on the package.
FLAVORED OIL
-Confit some garlic to make garlic oil and drizzle on top!
In order to get a creamy flavorful broth, we add soy milk, sesame paste, salt and soy sauce.
Components of a Bowl
300 ml soy milk
100 ml veggie stock
30 ml tare
20 ml garlic oil
Toppings
For the toppings you can use any of your favorite vegetables. Roasted oyster mushrooms gives nice texture and flavor, canned corn is another classic addition to Japanese Ramen and lastly, toasted nori helps round it out!
