Ramen is easily one of our favorite dishes at PrepYoSelf, especially heading into fall. As the weather cools there’s nothing better than a warm bowl of homemade ramen noodle soup.
Even better, our Easy Shrimp Ramen is loaded with healthy ingredients with powerful benefits like the antioxidants in mushrooms and vitamins in bok choy. Antioxidants can help protect you from free radicals that may cause heart disease and cancer. Cruciferous vegetables like Bok Choy, have also been known to decrease your risk of heart disease.
Our easy-to-make ramen recipe combines the ease of pre-made broth and the flavors of traditional ramen. This recipe is easy to whip together for any cold day of the week or to make ahead as a grab and go option.
Ease of Making: Easy
How to Cook This Homemade Shrimp Ramen Recipe
When it comes to ramen, the broth is everything. You really want to focus on making the shrimp ramen broth pack the biggest flavor punch possible. You can do this by combining fresh, flavorful ingredients and letting them simmer together. For this recipe, we use a pre-made chicken or vegetable broth for the sake of time but if you want to make your own ramen broth these are the steps you would take:
How to Make Ramen Broth
Generally, there are three types of ramen broth. One made from the broth of chicken carcasses, one from pork bones (called Tonkotsu), and the last a combination from chicken and dashi stock.
Steps:
- Pick your stock base
- Add in your aromatic root vegetables like ginger, garlic, and green onion
- Simmer the stock base, root vegetables and cold water for around 3 hours
- Add your dashi and other ingredients like miso, shoyu or shio
What To Add To Shrimp Ramen
Making your own homemade shrimp ramen recipe bowl is truly a customizable experience and can satisfy even the pickiest eaters. While we love ours with green onion, mushrooms and bok choy, you could also add these to spruce up your shrimp ramen:
- A soft boiled egg
- Meats – think lean slices of pork, beef or chicken that will cook quickly but still remain tender.
- Vegetables – practically any vegetable can work in ramen. Try it out with broccoli, carrots, or snap peas.
- Spices or Hot Sauce – If you want to make your ramen spicy, try adding some sriracha or red pepper to the mix for an added kick.
Meal Prep Tips for Shrimp Ramen
- Storing your ramen – store your prepped broth and noodles separately so the noodles don’t get soggy in the fridge.
- Freeze your broth – feel like making a ton of broth ahead? Ramen broth freezes wonderfully. We like using muffin tins to freeze individual portions we can easily grab and heat up in the microwave.
- Mix up your toppings – There’s nothing worse in meal prep than the same dish over and over, try new veggies, toppings, and sauce mix each time you make this to switch it up.
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