Name: korean ramen
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: española
Ingredients: 100 grams of pork; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; Sesame oil; grated ginger; 1 clove garlic; Half an onion; 4 envelopes of noodles (400 grams of instant noodles); 2 cups of water; 4 poached eggs; Chicken or vegetable broth; 1 tablespoon Korean pepper powder (gochugaru); A tablespoon of Korean gochujang hot sauce (I use this one from Amazon); 250 grams of dry kimchi; kimchi juice

Ramen is a very tasty dish made with broth and instant noodles. This food is originally from China, but little by little it spread throughout the Asian giant through different variants of the main recipe.

Preparing good ramen really is quite a challenge. The chefs specialized in this dish spend hours and hours to prepare a tasty and succulent broth, the key to the recipe.

A few years ago we did not know this oriental dish. Suddenly, it became fashionable and now in every city we find a large number of restaurants serving this delicious Asian dish.

For lovers of traditional ramen today I bring the Korean variant or better known to the natives as ramyeon.

Ramyeon is very similar to the rest. However, sauces typical of the Korean country are used such as gochugaru, a typical pepper from this country, and gochujang, a spicy sauce made from chili paste, also typical of Korea.

It is important control the amount of gochujang. If we want to prepare a spicy Korean ramen then we add more. If we want it less spicy, we add a little less than what the recipe indicates.

In the last section of the recipe I wanted to put a variant that I tried a few days ago in a restaurant in Barcelona. I loved!

Is called Rabokki and it is the mixture of Korean ramen (ramyeon) and some typical Korean rice cakes called tteokbokki. I thought it was a very curious dish, and it was really exquisite.

how to make spicy korean ramen

The first step is to prepare the marinade. In a container we put soy sauce, pork, sesame oil and ginger.
We grate the clove of garlic and add it to the mixture that we have prepared previously.
We stir the ingredients and let it rest for 20 minutes.
After this time we add the mixture to a pot over medium heat and let it cook for 10-12 minutes. It is important to stir periodically to achieve homogeneous cooking.
We peel the onion, chop it into small pieces and add it to the pot with the rest of the food. We let it cook for 5 more minutes.
After this time we add the Korean hot sauce and Korean pepper. We also add the kimchi and let it cook over high heat for 2-3 minutes while stirring.
Add the chicken or vegetable broth, the 2 cups of water and the kimchi juice. We stir everything well and let the ramen cook for 20-25 minutes over low heat so that all the flavors mix properly.
While it is cooking we will prepare the poached eggs. In a saucepan we put water and a little vinegar (a vinegar-water ratio of 1/10).
We leave the water over high heat until it boils. Once 100ºC has been reached, remove the saucepan from the heat.
We break an egg into a cup and carefully place the cup into the pot. Once inside, we remove the cup so that the egg remains inside the saucepan.
We cover the casserole and leave 3-4 minutes for the egg to poach.
After this time we removed the poached egg and passed cold water to quickly stop the cooking of the egg.
We repeat the process for the rest of the eggs.
We cook the instant noodles following the steps indicated on the envelope.
Finally, after 20-25 minutes we remove the broth from the ramen, serve in 4 bowls and distribute the Korean noodles that we have prepared.
We put a poached egg in each bowl, add a little spring onion and we already have our Korean ramen or ramyeon.

Korean Ramen Recipe Rabokki (mixture of tteokbokki with ramyeon)

Rabokki is a variant of Korean ramen that is very popular throughout Korea. This dish consists of mixing two typical recipes from the eastern country: tteokbokki and ramyeon.

Tteokbokki are a type of Korean rice cakes stir-fried with a spicy sauce made from gochujang (chili paste). If you have ever been to Korea, you will know that many street stalls sell these rice cakes.

To prepare the Korean Rabokki recipe we will cook the ramyeon (Korean ramen) as we have explained previously.

For the preparation of tteokbokki we have to get these rice cakes. We can find them in our favorite Asian store. If we cannot find it, we can obtain it in large online shopping portals, whether they are Asian online stores or in Amazon itself.

Once we have the package with the rice cakes, we will see that they are elongated and that they are stuck together. Separate them and add them while cooking the ramen over low heat for 20-25 minutes (step 15).