Shiitake Chicken Ramen

Name: Shiitake chicken ramen
Category: Japanese
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Difficulty: Easy
Ready in: 45 minutes

You will need:
- 1 package of ramen noodles
- 1 or 2 chicken breasts (cooked)
- 1/2 cup of scallions (sliced)
- 1/2 cup of Shiitake mushrooms
- 1 egg
- Dried Kelp
- 6 cups of water

How to cook:
The soup broth (Dashi):
1. Soak the Shiitake mushrooms in water for 30 minutes.
2. Put the Shiitake and water in a cooking pot.
3. Heat it (Medium heat).
4. Turn off the heat when the water comes to a boil.
5. Let it stand for 30 minutes.
6. Remove the Shiitake mushrooms with a strainer.
The noodles:
7. Put 2 cups of water in a cooking pot and bring to a boil.
8. Once the water is boiling add your ramen noodles.
9. Wait 2-3 minutes until the noodles are tender and separated.
10. Take off the water with the strainer.
The recipe:
11. Put the egg in a cooking pot, covering it with 1-2 inches of water.
12. Bring to a boil. As soon as the water boils, turn off the heat. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then peel it. Cut the egg in half lengthwise.
13. Put your noodles in the hot soup broth.
14. Add the cooked chicken breast, the dried kelp, the egg and the scallions.
15. If you don't want to lose them, you can add the shiitake mushrooms that you used to make your Dashi!
16. Enjoy!

Chicken ramen

Chicken and noodles have been cooked together for a very long time and are popular in tons of different noodle recipes. Either fried or grilled, when it's mixed with others ingredient in the soup, it gives a great tastes to the whole dish and it brings a lot of proteins. Also, the chicken soup base is very popular and is a flavor available from almost all top manufacturers of noodles. To make your own soup base, there is a full section featuring them in the japanese recipes category.

This recipe shows that it's pretty easy to make an authentic chicken ramen soup. The Dashi is very simple to make and every other ingredients are stuff that we use often when cooking. You can make the broth using dried or fresh shiitake mushrooms. For different broth (Dashi) you can look in the japanese recipes section.

We hope you enjoyed this recipe and that you'll try more japanese ramen!