How to make your own ajitama // 味玉の作り方

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Step 1

Finely chopped the garlic and ginger. Chopped the spring onion and leek ( Use only the green ‘leafy’ part). Place them all in a tupperware not too deep yet yet enough to cover your eggs. Some recipes uses only soy sauce but i was trying out Ramen Walker sauce recipe includes leeks and all to add flavour to the bath.

Step 2

To create the sauce bath for eggs to swim in

Step 3

Sprinkle a dash of danshi stock and add a dap of sesame oil as you wish for a better taste. The ratio of water to Kikkoman Soy Sauce is 3 1 meaning for every 150ml of water, you need 50ml of soya sauce.

Step 4

Heat up a pot of water. Wait for it to boil. When its boiling (meaning the water is bubbling) , drop the eggs in. To be safe, mascot and i tested with 1 egg first, we took it out after 530 mins in the boiling water (Singapore eggs are slightly smaller so you really should not leave it in for too lon) and drop it into the icebath. The first one was a success with a runny yolk center! We dropped the remaining 8 eggs into the pot. This time we waited 540mins for it to cook as there were more eggs.

Step 5

Cook the eggs in boiling water for 540mins.

Step 6

Prepare the ice bath. Dish the eggs out after 540mins and cool in in the ice bath to stop the cooking process (Tip Add 1-2 teaspoon of vinegar to the icebath for easy peeling of the eggs)

Step 7

Cool the eggs in ice bath. Most of my ice melted.

Step 8

Peel the eggs carefully to avoid breaking them. You roughly can tell if your eggs is semi cooked as you peel them, you can feel their swooshy center. Last step, let the eggs swim in the sauce pool, tada!

Step 9

You will need to soak them for some days. Recommended is 3 days. The eggies will float up no worry, they will submerge after u cover the lid (or at least mine did) else gently rock them side to side with lid on to make sure the egg is evenly coated when you check on them each day. Cant wait for the 3 days to pass!

Step 10

Yays!! Finally.. it really to be eaten. Look at how evenly coated the eggs are. I open one up and wow.. Its kinda perfect.. Ps. I cut using a knife so it looks kinda jagged. A good way to half it would be using fishing line so the edges will be smooth.

Step 11

Looks good yea! the watery yolk.