Now I get to make fish and chips a la Pacific Northwest... normally this is for sturgeon but it works well with todays assortment of lingcod and rock fishes. Watch out for bones!

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Hello my fellow weekend chefs.

After coming back from a trip to Tokyo all I can think about is the ramen we had there, so I was inspired last night...
Cooked up some Shio chicken ramen for dinner as my GF was out most of the day so figured I'd get a little all day project on the go.

I was gonna do Tonkotsu but couldn't find any pigs trotters as most of the butchers round here are halal so I went for a chicken broth but made a shio base with kombu and bonito flakes and also braised some rolled pork belly in a soy, sake, mirin, ginger, scallion and garlic stock for about 4 hours. I kinda prefer the lighter broths anyway, as much as I love me some Tsukumen every now and again... especially when the weather is as ferocious as it is in the UK at the moment.

My third proper ramen attempt and definitely the most successful by far. Very much helped by using an Instant Pot for the stock. I can't speak highly enough of those things!

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