Home made ramen noodles with pork belly, pickled onions, and a perfect broth.
Pork Ramen
Ingredients
- 1 pound pork belly
- Salt
- Sugar
- Pepper
- 3 cups flour (for the noodles)
- 4 teaspoons baked soda
- ½ Cup wam water
- ½ Cup cold water
- 1 large red onion
- Soy sauce
- Gyoza sauce
- Chicken stock
- Rice wine vinegar
- White wine vinegar
- 1 bunch scallions
Preparation
- Make the pickled onions first. Bring at least two cups of water to a rolling boil.
- Add the sliced red onion and boil for 2-3 minutes.
- Meanwhile, dissolve ½ tsp. sugar and ½ tsp. salt in ¾ cup of rice wine vinegar.
- Drain onions and add them to vinegar mixture. Set aside.
- Make the noodles. Start by dissolving 4 tsp. baked soda in ½ cup warm water.
- Add 3 cups AP flour and mix.
- Add in the ½ cup cold water and mix til it comes together.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
- While the dough chills, make the broth for the soup.
- Mix in a pot equal parts chicken stock, gyoza sauce, soy sauce, and rice wine vinegar.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer.
- Taste and adjust seasonings to your taste.
- While broth is simmering, cook the pork belly.
- Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
- Score the skin with a chef's knife.
- Season with salt, pepper, and a little sugar.
- Ideally, you would have let this cure overnight, but it's okay otherwise.
- Put the pork in at 450 for half an hour.
- Then reduce temperature to 275 and cook for an additional 60 minutes.
- Take pork out and let rest.
- Prepare noodles. Cut dough into six segments.
- Run each segment through a pasta machine until you hit number three on the dial.
- Then run it through the pasta cutter.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt generously.
- Add in one batch of noodles and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Drain noodles and rinse in hot water.
- Put into a bowl and ladle broth over.
- Cut pork belly and place on top of noodles.
- Place pickled onions on top along with sliced scallions.
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