The Original Hokkaido Ramen

Today for you I will describe a Japanese recipe, the recipe for happiness of good times spent with carefreeness and freedom, where people still help and respect each other, where tradition and innovation blend to create an atmosphere almost in real life, suggestive but at the same time reassuring and familiar where I left my heart and many friends that one day,

 I hope to find again...

Ingredients for 4 people

• Noodles 320g
• Pork belly 300g
• Pork loin 250g
• Onion 1
• Carrot 1
• White onion 1
• Fresh garlic 2
• Fresh ginger 3cm
• Chives a bunch
• Soy sauce 20g
• Miso in paste 30g
• Sesame oil 4 teaspoons
• Water 3lt
• Salt qb

To compose the dish:

• White eggs 4
• Dried Nori seaweed 2 sheets
• Chives a bunch
• Soy sauce 50g
• Sake 10ml
• Bamboo shoots

In Hokkaido, ramen with miso broth is my favourite, so let's see how to proceed.

Let's mix and wash the vegetables, cut the bamboo shoots into strips and divide each sheet of seaweed into 4 parts so that we have 8 smaller pieces.

In a pot we put 3lT of cold water, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 carrot, 1 onion, the ginger, the spring onion and the 2 pieces of pork and we light the low fire and let it simmer for 4 hours removing the surface foam.

In the meantime boil 4 medium eggs in a saucepan for about 4-5 minutes so that the yolk is soft, drain them in cold water to stop cooking and as soon as possible shell them and place them in a bowl to marinate with 50ml of soy sauce and 10ml of sake turning them several times for at least 2 hours.

At this point we extract the meat from the pot by draining it well and place it on a cutting board and when it is cold we cut it into thin slices of 3 mm, add 30g of miso paste and 20ml of soy sauce to the broth and let it reduce until it is a little more than a liter, remove all the vegetables and salt.

In a pot of unsalted water boil the noodles for the time indicated on the package, once cooked drain and portion into soup tureens, add a teaspoon of sesame oil and two ladles of broth, two slices of pork belly and three slices of loin, an egg cut in half, strips of bamboo shoots, 2 sheets of seaweed, and freshly cut chives.

Tips:

• I recommend to add some pieces of boiled corn on top and small slice of butter!

  Thanks for the picture to Naito San and Takahashi San.