I normally start with hot sauce, butter, and mustard in mine.
Putting boiling water in it for once instead of eating it dry :3
Step 1: Put water in the kettle
Step 2: Click the little button
Step 3: Open your noodles, and put them in the bowl, along with the spices, vegetables and oil
Step 4: Once the kettle turns off pour the water onto the noodles till it covers about half
Step 5: Put a plate over the bowl and wait about 4 minutes
You probably don’t have raw sewage coming out of your pipes ala Michigan. Fancy!
If I’m trying to make it a real meal whatever veg / seafood / meat I might have around. But my lazy addition is a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (and usually some extra spice) makes it feel more nutritious creamier and kinda like satay.
See, people think that me using butter is weird, but peanut butter sounds atrocious to me and multiple people have suggested it.
You should try it! Personally, I don’t find butter weird (I think it’s just people don’t think of it as an ‘Asian’ ingredient) but I was shocked by the mayo. But a couple of folks mentioned it, so I’m going to try!
And thanks for this post BTW, I’m a bachelor again for a week while my partner is away, so I’ll defintely be cracking out the ramen. And now I can pretend I’m experimenting, rather than just being lazy!
Peanut butter + sriracha + a bit of lime juice for “pad thai” works well.
Hot sauce and a soft boiled egg
I didn’t see this listed yet, but this is by far the best I’ve had. I use Shin Ramen, it’s pretty spicy. This offsets the spice a little, but it’s still pretty spicy. I’m sure this works with other ramen just fine as well.
Noodles and flavor/herb packets into bowl with water, bowl into microwave.
In another bowl put 1 egg, about the yolks sized amount of kewpie mayo, and a few shakes of soy sauce, however much you want. Whisk it all together well.
Once your noodles are done cooking, SLOWLY pour its super hot contents into the egg mixture while whisking the entire time. Basically you don’t want it to get hot enough to cook the egg until it all evenly incorporates.
Enjoy. I like this more than most restaurant ramen.
Sometimes I’ll add meats or a boiled egg or green onions if I have it on hand, but that’s absolutely not necessary for it to be amazing.
This is almost my exact process, too! Had to verify you weren’t a housemate, lol. We do a dash of fish sauce in ours, instead of soy sauce.
- Fried spam.
- crack an egg into it.
- add some curry paste.
- add fresh green onions.
