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Cari 👻
Leveling up instant ramen
What is your go to recipe/ingredients when you want to upgrade instant noodles to make them more fancy?
Lauraleigh Summerhayes
my mother in law makes a delicious salad with Ramen noodles! I don't have her recipe, but this one looks similar :)
Dana :)
Oh this is a great one! “Fancy” ramen is one of my weekday meal hacks. I like to add a soft boiled egg (I make a bath of them earlier - 6 min 50 seconds in boiling water, then in an ice bath for 15-20 min), spinach or kale or broccoli I’ll add when the noodles are boiling, and sesame seeds on top! If I have nori or Wakame seaweed I’ll add that too.
Dana :)
The other option is to skip the broth entirely and do something like a cold noodle dish with the ramen noodles
The Baking Pastor
Peanut butter, chili flakes, green onions
Jill
We tend to drain the noodles and do a quick stirfry in a scrambled egg, some veggies (peapods, carrots) and "dragon sauce" from BudgetBytes.com = 1 part soy sauce, 1 part sriracha, and 1 part brown sugar (about a tbsp. each per ramen packet).
