Pork Broth & Beef Romen Noodles
For some time I've had a hankering to try my hand at noodle making and at some point make my own Top Romen. Well, yesterday I did it. I tried it and it' was o k, not bad, not great, just o k. I have a lot of learning and experimenting to do.
For this endeavor I used these two URLS:
Noodles - http://norecipes.com/blog/2010/11/30/homemade-ramen-noodle-recipe/
Broth - http://tashian.com/carl/archives/2009/01/homemade_ramen.php
If this recipe is ever used, please read the "Putting it all Togther" section first.
Side Meat
- Thinly sliced piece of beef
Seasen the with salt and pepper and set aside
Broth
- 2.5 Pounds of Pork Neck Bones
- 3 Carrots
- 1/2 Stock of Celery
- 1/2 Cup chopped Bell Peppers
- 1/2 Cup Onion
Take 5-6 quarts of water and bring to boil. Put Pork Neck Bones in boiling water and lower heat to a simmer. Let sit for no less than 4 hours.
After 4 hours, turn off heat, and take out Pork Neck Bones and put to the side (there's a good dish you cane make with this). Put vegetables in and set heat to med-low, let simmer for about 15-30 min. vegetables
Noodles
- 2 cups of Bread Flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp of Lye Water
Place flour in a mixing bowl. Combine the 1 tsp of Lye Water with Water in a cup and mix them together. Mix water and flour together in the mixing bowl and start mixing, feel free to use a mixer with dough hook. When the dough comes together, form it into a ball and let it sit for about 20 min.
One of my failures in this was the noodles, tasted great but I couldn't get the noodles thin enough. I saw a couple videos that show how to roll and cut, however the dough was not stretching enough to use these techniques (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEq5sDFzBuc). I later learned I should have used wheat flour.
To strech out the noodles I used a roller and did the best I could and used a pizza cutter to cut into thin strips.
Putting it all together
Here is a list of how it all came together
- Put Pork Neck Bones in water to make broth
- Let simmer for about 2 hours
- Start on making Noodles
- Take Pork Neck Bones out of broth and set aside
- Put vegetables in broth and bring to simmer
- Roll dough out and start cutting into noodles
- Take vegetables out of broth and set aside
- Put side meat in broth to "shock cook"
- Since it's thinly cut it'll cook very fast in the broth
- Take meat out and place in bowl
- Put noodles in broth and let cook
- Be careful - Cook for to long and the noodles will be ruined.
- As you take noodles out, put in searving bowls
- When done, put broth in searving bowls and put side meat in
- Serve
This was my first attempt at Japanese Noodles and will not be my last. Next attempt will be an all beef broth.
