For lunch today I dug into the Ramenbox and picked out the Sapporo Ichiban original flavor. I wanted to eat this as a soup, so I started by adding some carrots to the boiling water.
Starting the carrots and about to add the noodles.
While the noodles and carrots were cooking, I chopped some ham and green onions, which I had in the fridge.
Ham and green onions
Here is the finished product:
The Finished product
Now onto the review. The soup ended up salty, mainly because I cooked it too long in too wide of a pan and I also added ham. That was my fault. Other than that, this noodles were good, but I found the flavor to be lacking something. It’s probably my least favorite so far, but it would make a good base for a dish if you could add something else to give it flavor (ham, carrots, and green onions were not enough).
I love the Sapporo Ichiban original flavour ramen!! But I never eat it as soup, because I hardly ever enjoy instant ramen in soup form – so maybe I would agree with you about the ‘something missing’ part if I ate it that way.
I make one of my favourite meals by boiling these noodles and then throwing them into a hot, slightly oiled pan and sprinkling the seasoning on them in the pan. I push them around a few times and let them dry off slightly, basically racing to get the seasoning mixed in before the noodles start sticking to the pan. Then I turn them out onto a wide plate that I’ve already placed some pickled beets and a couple of boiled eggs (I usually sprinkle a bit of the seasoning on the halved, boiled eggs before throwing the rest in with the noodles – it is a great flavour on the eggs). So good!! Best with a glass of cold milk. But pretty highly concentrated salt and fat, so I don’t let myself eat this too often.
Maybe you would be willing to try them this way? They might not be your least favourite anymore!
Recipe sounds delicious…to fix the too salty soup–peel and cut a potato into large chunks and allow it to simmer for 15 min, then remove the potato. It will absorb a bit of the saltiness. Or you can neutralize the salt with sugar and cider vinegar–or rice vinegar even (one teaspoon each until the saltiness is reduced)
wow, sounds like a good meal of msg, palm oil, and wheat flour. next time i’m hungry, will try eating some salt.