Soy Sauce Flavoring for Ramen Soup
Ingredients
- 2 large garlic cloves peeled
- 2 knobs ginger peeled
- 1 Japanese leek white part only
- 4 tablespoons mirin sweet sake
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons sake
- 5 cups strained chicken stock
Instructions
- Mash the garlic, ginger and leek together. Mix together the mirin, soy sauce and sake. Add all the ingredients to a small saucepan and let cook slowly, over low heat, for five minutes. Combine the soy sauce flavoring with hot stock.
- Place garnishes on top of the cooked noodles in the soy sauce flavored soup. Add ½ teaspoon lard to each serving and serve piping hot.
Notes
Garnishes:
Manchurian wild rice stems, (menma or shinashiku) to taste
4 slices fishcake (naruto)
8 leaves parboiled and trimmed spinach, cut into thirds
2 teaspoons lard
Minced green onion or Japanese leek to taste