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Simple Ramen

Ingredients
  

Cha su

  • 500 g spare ribs
  • 2 Tbsp soya sauce
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 2 Tbsp cooking sake
  • 1 knob of ginger bruised
  • 1 Tbsp of spring onions
  • 1-2 cups of water enough to just cover the pork

Egg

  • 4 eggs at room temperature
  • 1 Tbsp soya sauce
  • 1 Tbsp sake
  • 1 Tbsp mirin

Toppings

  • Chopped green onions
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Yaki nori
  • Anything you like!
  • Dashi stock or make this yourself

Instructions
 

Cha Su

  • Put everything for the cha su into a pressure cooker and cook for 20 minutes on high. If not using the pressure cooker, cook until soft and pork pierce through easily, which is about 2 hours.
  • Cut into 1/2 inch thick slices and toast or bake until slightly brown.
  • Cool the liquid for the cha su in the freezer and once very cold, remove the oil floating above.

Eggs

  • Place the room temperature eggs into room temperature water and bring to a boil.
  • Add four minutes to the boiling and then remove.
  • Remove egg shells and soak into soaking liquid for eggs. Then slice into halves.

Gather

  • Mix a laddle of cha su liquid with as much dashi as desire (I use 50-50), and place ramen into the stock. Add toppings.