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Chicken Ramen — Quick, Easy and Under 30 Minutes
Making Ramen at home could be a pretty elaborate affair lasting for days, but on a modern day like today who has the time for that?! Nope, not me! Definitely not after a long day at the office. I craved a Ramen that consisted of grilled chicken and lots of noodles drenched in deeply flavoursome broth! This craving needed to be satisfied, so to keep me happy I came up with this recipe. Usually I have about 30 minutes to fix something for dinner. Today, with some diligent planning ahead, I made Chicken Ramen in 30 minutes!
Since this recipe is about making a delicious dinner the quick and easy way, I’m giving everyone a heads up — there are quite a few shortcuts, i.e. store-bought condiments.
The most important ingredient — and I guess a lot of you would agree — in a Ramen is the broth! Without it there is no Ramen. In my quick and easy Chicken Ramen, I used ready-made FS Goods Chicken Broth. It’s made from local ingredients and is so ready that all you have to do is heat it up and pour it over whatever you wish. Super easy and versatile for any recipe, from all kinds of soups to risottos to anything, really. It’s lactose and gluten-free and comes in different sizes too, so you can use it for making dinner for one or for four.
The second shortcut was a store-bought, warm, meaty, juicy grilled chicken thigh. The third step is preparing the eggs. This time I used quail eggs, but regular eggs go just as well — you just have to boil them beforehand. I boiled my quail eggs for exactly ONE minute because I wanted a little gooeyness inside; with regular eggs you get that with five minutes of boiling. If you’d like more detail on boiling and peeling eggs, I wrote about my method for boiling eggs just perfectly in this post.
Chicken Ramen
Ingredients
Method
- Pour the broth into a pot, add some soy sauce and heat until boiling.
- Boil the egg beforehand — quail egg for exactly one minute, or a regular egg for five minutes if you want a little gooeyness inside — cool and peel.
- Put the noodles into the boiling broth so they absorb some of its goodness.
- At the same time julienne the carrot and chop some green onion or chives.
- Put everything nicely into a bowl — noodles and broth, the sliced grilled chicken thigh, carrot, egg and green onion, topped with seaweed chips if you like — and enjoy!
