I ate it when I was a bachelor. Now I just take the little flavor packs and add them to my hunting/fishing supplies. Makes a nice cup of broth on a cold day, lots of flavor to season fish/birds too.
Enough sodium to blow your heart out, but I do enjoy it once it a while. I have a friend whose parents own Samyang, the second largest ramen manufacturer in Korea after Nongshim. They own a very nice farm with huge windmills, but I digress.
I buy a big pack of egg/rice noodles and make a quick spicy soup to season them. Almost as fast. No palmoil. Sample seasonings and additions: Sliced leeks, garlic, onion, carrot, lentils, leftover meat or fish, peppers, mushrooms, soy/fish/oyster/chili sauce. A piece of a buillon cube, ketchup, sesam oil, curry, ginger, egg. Or whatever. At this time of year fresh spices from the garden and always my own garlic.
But I sometimes use packs as well, with some added veggies and lentils. Not Ramen, other brands. Fun to test out which is the best…
My garlic was planted in november 2013, and will be ready to harvest from the middle of July. But they are fine to eat now as well, sliced down fine with the green blades like leeks.
but try it with some egg and American cheese in it… My wife does the cooking here, but I think she adds some raw eggs and the cheese to it while cooking and stir around (so the egg cooks and the chees melts, and it is SOOOO delicious :)!!
My friend has a recipe for a ramen noodle salad that is delicious!
2 Packages beef ramen noodles (broken up, not cooked)
1 Package of cole slaw mix (no dressing)
1 Cup slivered almonds
1 Cup sunflower seeds
Green onions
Dressing:
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 vinegar (apple cider)
The two flavor packets from the ramen noodles
Mix the salad the night before so it will soften up the noodles.
Pour dressing on an hour or two before serving.
They are sometimes on sale here in the stores for great prices in large quantities. You can do a lot with the noodles as they are almost the perfect base.
I add egg in to mine all the time….I cook it on the stove, and soon as the noodles are done, I add the packet, turn off the heat, and crack in an egg or two.
Not often, but I do like the Singapore flavoured variant. I have no idea what that means either, but apparently Singapore has a flavour. I heat in boiled water for 2 or 3 minutes, then drain off, add some of the packages, not all. Stir.