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Miso and Seaweed Ramen With Egg
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- Total Time
- 30 minutes
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Ingredients
- ¼cup neutral oil, such as safflower or canola
- 4ounces shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and thinly sliced
- ¾cup finely chopped scallions, plus more for garnish
- Salt and black pepper
- 1tablespoon minced garlic
- ⅓cup white miso
- 2tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- ¼cup dried ready-cut wakame seaweed
- 1pound fresh ramen noodles (see Tip)
- 4large eggs
- 2tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 2tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
- 2teaspoons grated fresh ginger
Preparation
- Step 1
In a large Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed pot, heat 2 tablespoons of neutral oil over medium. Add mushrooms and ¼ cup of the scallions, and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add garlic and stir until fragrant, 30 seconds. Add miso and soy sauce, and cook over medium-low, stirring constantly, until the mushrooms have absorbed the liquid and the miso is caramelized and deep golden brown, about 2 minutes.
- Step 2
Add 8 cups of water and the seaweed, and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring to dissolve the miso and lift up any browned bits on the bottom of the pot. Partly cover, reduce heat to medium and simmer until mushrooms and seaweed are tender and broth is slightly reduced, about 15 minutes. Season to taste with salt.
- Step 3
Meanwhile, bring a large saucepan of water to a boil, and cook noodles according to package instructions. Drain and immediately divide among 4 bowls.
- Step 4
Reduce heat to medium-low and crack the eggs into the pot with the broth, leaving some space in between the eggs. Cover and poach until whites are just set and yolks are still runny, about 3 minutes.
- Step 5
As the eggs cook, combine the remaining ½ cup scallions, remaining 2 tablespoons neutral oil, sesame oil, sesame seeds and ginger in a small bowl, and season with salt. Mix well.
- Step 6
Divide the broth and eggs among the bowls. Drizzle each with some of the sesame-ginger sauce, and serve warm.
- This recipe can also be prepared using dried instant ramen noodles; you’ll want 4 (3.5-ounce) packages. Discard the spice packets or reserve for another use, then follow the package cooking instructions for Step 3.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Umm, it is generally a given that you shouldn't boil miso. In soups it is added at the end, when you take the pot off the heat. Here is an explanation from Bon Appetit, but Google is full of references. “Miso is a fermented food, meaning it contains live, active cultures of bacteria—you know, like the good stuff that's also found in yogurt. Adding it to boiling water will kill the probiotics in the miso, nixing the health benefits it typically offers, like better digestive health
As someone who makes miso soup multiple times a week, I recommend using a ladle, dipping into the broth (final step) and using it to whisk or fork whisk the miso paste before adding it back into the rest of the soup—-this way it is off-heat to preserve the probiotics and the miso is distributed without clumps.
I loved the depth of flavor that the caramelized miso added. It is worth the loss of the probiotics because it’s so good. Maybe I’ll add some straight miso at the end next time. This is a wonderful soup.
I often read comments that say you shouldn’t boil miso but this is completely wrong, at least culturally. Koreans make doenjang gook or jjigae, boiling doenjang (Korean miso) for quite some time. Same with Japanese miso soup. Rarely we eat miso uncooked, except to use as a ssam sauce.
As someone who has been making ramen from scratch every week for two years, I recommend for an easy broth to make konbu water with dried shitake and Bonito flakes. In 1L of water, add 50g of konbu and 50g of dried shitake. Slowly bring to a simmer over low heat. Once it starts to simmer, remove the kombu. Turn off heat and add 50g of Bonito flakes. Let steep for 15 minutes and filter broth through a fine mesh strainer. Discard solids. Also add miso and soy sauce mix to bowl before adding broth.
I've been looking for recipes to dehydrate and bring backpacking. This one made the cut! I left out the oil (fat is what can cause dehydrated food to spoil), used powdered garlic and ginger, and will dehydrate a scrambled egg instead of bringing a whole one to poach ;) It's not as good as the real thing, unless you add the secret spice known as "backpacker hunger" to the mix. I'm looking forward to this!
David Chang had a recipe in the times recently. The only difference was he added 2 slices of American cheese. When it melts with the egg yolk it coats the noodles. Yummy in my tummy.
If you're adding miso back to hot soup, that bacteria is likely dead before it gets to your gut anyway, regardless of whether you mix the miso in a ladle before adding it back to the pot, or adding it at the end after you turn off the burner. A temperature of 158F/70C will kill 99.99% of bacteria in less than a minute (per the World Health Organization). So unless you're eating luke warm miso soup... Also, planning on making this soon! Thanks!
My daughter and I liked this. I made with 2 cups of chicken bone broth + 4 cups water instead of all water. Only added 2 TBS of wakame seaweed. Added 2 carrots with the onions and mushrooms, and then baby bok choy, spinach and extra firm tofu at the end to boost the vegetables. Added additional miso and the sesame seed mixture to the whole pot right before serving. Served with ramen noodles for my daughter and shirataki noodles for me. Would make again.
Just poach an egg how you normally would; but do it in the miso broth. Heres a link for how to poach eggs if its helpful: https://downshiftology.com/recipes/poached-eggs/
One cannot imagine shiro, aka awase miso etc., without ichiban dashi. Absent the ingredients kombu and katsuobushi one can easily substitute HonDashi (bonito soup stock—ichiban dashi). Also suggest no salt. This miso is fabulous.
The carmelized miso was a glorious touch! I typically don't eat ramen for its digestive benefits anyway, so I highly recommend following the instructions to a tee! I swapped the eggs for thawed frozen salmon fillets and can't wait to make this again.
I love this recipe. At the end, I wanted a bit more green so I added half a cup frozen edamame beans I had in the freezer. Wonderful. Will make again !
This came out AMAZING! Accidentally overcooked the eggs, but with them cooking in the broth, it didn't even matter. Lots of options for variations if you wanted. Could add chicken, chili powder, etc. The broth by itself could be used for quite a few things, as well. But honestly, the best ramen recipe I've ever made. I'll be making this again and again.
Just soak the wakame in cold water for 10 minutes, drain, and add it to the soup at the end. Otherwise it gets very slimy. Also, 1/4 cup dry is quite a lot of wakame, much more than it looks like in the pictures when it's reconstituted.
I make this ramen for my family once a week. It’s so simple, and delicious, and my four year old loves it. I follow the recipe exactly, unless I can’t find shiitake mushrooms (I’m in a small town in the prairies), in which case I use cremini’s. It’s a 10/10 family recipe.
I used oyster mushrooms instead of shiitake and let some baby bok choy steam in the broth at the end and it was *chef’s kiss.* Also added in some chili crisp after serving for a little kick! This recipe was incredibly simple and delicious.
This was SO good - will the broth keep/freeze for using later in the same way, does anyone know?
Made for just me, so roughly cut to 1/4 and was a bit loose in measuring. I used chickpea miso, and the smell when it was caramelizing with the fresh ground black pepper was wonderful. I had cremini mushrooms on hand, which worked fine. Being lazy, after I put the noodles in the bowl, I put the dressing ingredients straight on top. I also added a kale and cruciferous vegetable salad mix for more veggies (lazy again) Regarding the oil discussion, I use avocado oil for neutral oil. Yummy.
Have made this many times with buckwheat soba noodles instead. Totally delicious !
Way too much seaweed in my view. I think it would also benefit from some more protein.
This turned out better than I could have imagined, but the one change I did make, I added six cups of water rather than eight, knowing I could also add more. Six for me was the go-to amount.
I loved the poached egg! But for me this recipe needs some work. The broth wasn’t very flavourful at all (no dashi?) The mushrooms heavily tasted like canola oil, and found it really odd to have so much ginger as a dressing was really weird like it was too much mixed in and too buzzard just as a big ginger-scallion clump on top?
I'm sure I did something wrong but with 8 cups of water, the broth was very bland for me. I'm guessing I didn't let it simmer long enough but I had it on medium for over 15 minutes. I might try again with less water. I love the idea of adding salmon.
Tasty. I used 4 cups chicken broth instead of 8 cups water. Next time I’ll add 2 cups water to it. Added sriracha which is a must. Fresh ramen noodles elevated everything. Great with the egg and the green onion relish.
You can usually get some wonderful Japanese ramen noodles at an Asian grocery store. They come in flat packages of 3-8 servings with each serving individually wrapped in paper.
I will soft boil the eggs separately next time. They sunk below the surface of the broth, and were difficult to find among the mushrooms and seaweed. I will also add bonito flakes (dashi) to the broth, as some others have suggested.
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