First time for everything

This was the first time I made some homemade ramen for both me and my wife. This made 2 dishes.

Tare – I created a shoyu tare using light & dark soy sauce. Some Mirin, cooking sake and fish sauce. All put together with kombu and shiitake mushrooms.

Aroma Oil – Making the aroma oil from scratch I utilised some leftover bacon lardons to help create a porkier flavour as well as spring onions and 3 cloves of garlic. (This was too much and the garlic flavour was too prominent for my liking. My wife however enjoyed it more.)

Broth – For the broth I used a dashi powder packet and some chicken stock combined with just under boiling water.

Noodles – A frozen packet of fresh noodles I picked up at my local Asian supermarket.

Toppings- for each person we had 5 pork gyoza’s, 2 pieces of nori, some spring onions, 1 boiled egg, and finished with the cooked bacon lardons that created the oil.

The finished product came out really well and gave me a good grounding base to go off for further recipes and ramen dishes. Looking forward to what I can do in the future!